Finance Support Assistant

About the role

Interested in a finance role that underpins services supporting children and young people across Cornwall We are looking for a full-time permanent Finance Support Assistant to join the Finance Team supporting the Together for Families directorate. The team plays a vital role in supporting childrens social care services by ensuring financial processes run accurately efficiently and on time.

This is a hands-on finance support role focused on processing payments monitoring financial information and supporting colleagues across the service. Your work will directly enable services that support children young people and families across Cornwall.

This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a basic criminal record disclosure check.

What youll be doing

As part of the Together for Families Finance Team you will:

Process and validate a range of financial transactions including payment runs and invoices.

Raise and manage purchase orders using corporate and service finance systems.

Reconcile financial information investigate discrepancies and resolve queries promptly.

Support managers and operational colleagues with financial processes and guidance.

Produce reports spreadsheets and monitoring information as required.

Maintain accurate electronic records in line with data and information governance requirements.

Support audit activity and contribute to improving financial processes and controls.

Working arrangements

This is a full-time permanent role (37 hours per week) with a hybrid working model.

Office base: New County Hall Truro.

Office attendance: Expected at least once per week and more frequently when business need requires.

Working pattern is Monday to Thursday: 08:45 17:15 with Friday: 08:45 16:45.

What youll need to succeed
GCSEs (Grades AC) or equivalent including English and Maths.

Excellent keyboard skills and a moderate to high level of Microsoft Excel capability.

Were looking for someone who is organised reliable and comfortable working with financial information in a busy environment. You dont need experience in childrens services specifically full training will be provided but you should bring good core finance skills and a willingness to learn.

Youll need to demonstrate:

Experience in a finance or business support role

Strong attention to detail and ability to work accurately to deadlines

Confidence using IT systems including spreadsheets and financial software

Good communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively and respond to queries professionally

Experience maintaining accurate records and handling confidential information appropriately

Role profile is attached here

Why join us

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice; a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract compensate and retain our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff; this helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance whilst still ensuring that service needs are met. Youll be joining a supportive experienced team where your contribution is valued and your role is clearly defined making a large impact on the lives of children young people and families in Cornwall with opportunities for development and growth.

Cornwall Council offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

Salary: Grade 2 26597 to 31869 (progression subject to conditions)

Local Government Pension Scheme based on your career average earnings including the option for extra voluntary contributions.

26 days annual leave per year (pro-rata) rising to 29 days after five years continuous service with the potential to purchase additional leave.

Flexible and hybrid working options including a flexi-time scheme.

A National award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme.

Access to a wide range of employee discounts and benefits including a cycle to work scheme.

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year.Find out more about working and volunteering for us.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be foundhere -flexible working options.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for order to best serve our communities we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds cultures and identities; e.g. race disability sex gender age religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Application process

You can upload your CV or manually add Education & Qualification details using the application form timeline. Applications MUST submit a supporting statement clearly demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the Role Profile. Applications without a supporting statement are unlikely to be shortlisted. We recommend using the STAR method (Situation Task Action Result) to structure your examples.Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work or personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here: note the interview process may include a short competency-based task related to the job role profile; this role is focused on supporting Together For Families (TFF) only.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.