Finance Officer

London, England, United Kingdom

12/6/2024

Early Intervention and Family Support Services

Finance Officer

Salary scale: BR7 (£28,594 - £30,841)

Hours: Permanent, Full time (36hpw)

We are looking for an enthusiastic person with financial awareness and experience of working in a busy team. You will need excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational and IT skills to join our established multi-agency, early intervention, community-based Service.

The role supports five different teams within Children’s Social Care Early Intervention, working across 8 different venues within Bromley.

The working environment is highly pressured, with many externally driven non-negotiable deadlines across these different services. These deadlines often overlap and careful planning, organisation and creative thinking is required to prevent any of the services failing to achieve their reporting and financial deadlines.

The post holder will be required to undertake a range of financial functions within a local authority financial environment and must be able to successfully: -

• Manage the daily financial tasks e.g. researching best value for money, ordering goods, raising / paying invoices
• Complete basic budget reconciliation in line with Financial Regulations
• Support the running of a number of procurement exercises in line with Corporate Procurement Rules
• Support an extensive annual commissioning exercise in line with Corporate Procurement Rules
• Administer income streams to support service delivery
• Maintain and administer the various asset logs
• Staff the daily facilities and cleaning contract helpline for all remote sites within EIFS and maintain and action the respective Incident Logs
  
  

The multi-service support and extensive range of external customers and suppliers will require the successful candidate to have strong and effective communication and negotiation skills, in order to robustly challenge where necessary e.g. utility providers.

There will be an expectation that you will support service improvement looking for ways to strengthen our financial processes, including reporting and accessibility of physically held supporting data required for auditing.

Applicants should enjoy working as part of a team, as well as independently. Flexibility is essential e.g. working peripatetically across different sites.

This is not a virtual role. There is limited scope for working at home as the post holder will be required on site daily.

Applications should fully address the person specification as they will be competitively shortlisted against this.

All appointments will be offered at the minimum salary point for the grade of the role. The only exception to this will be when matching current salary (up to the maximum of the scale), which is subject to evidential proof.

The successful candidate will require a satisfactory DBS check.

We welcome candidates that reflect our local communities.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Jo Cozens or Sophie Garner on 020 8461 7259.

Closing date for applications: midnight Sunday 05 January 2025.

Interviews: will be held on Monday 27 January 2025.

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment. We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.