The Service & Team:
The Finance support assistant role sits within Care and Wellbeing's Business Support Charging team.
We enacted the councils financial responsibilities within the care act for Adult Social Care, and the council own Charging Policy.
The Role:
The Business Support and Administration Service provides essential support to frontline colleagues and service users with support teams managing on their behalf a wide range of financial duties including payment of invoices, generation of payment cycles, raising purchase orders and invoices, purchasing goods and services, administration of Nursery Education Funding and the reconciliation and monitoring of petty cash and vouchers. The role assists Support Officers, Team Leaders and Senior Managers with procedural implementation and monitoring of tasks providing a wide range of information to operational and management personnel in line with departmental and partnership agency policies and procedures.
We are currently looking for 3 x 12 Month fixed term position.
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 enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
Mon - Fri Hours 08:45-17:15, 37 Hours per week
What you’ll need to succeed:
The Charging Team work in a fast pace environment, this role requires knowledge of financial processes including: Invoicing, Credits, Purchase orders, and financial calculations.
To succeed at the role, you will need to be adaptable to new processes and be able to work to tight deadlines and evidence this within your application.
Knowledge of Mosaic and Oracle is desired but not essential, full training will be provided.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert and supply a supporting statement to showcase your ability to meet the competencies.
What you’ll get in return:
Cornwall Council’s 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, motivate and reward 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.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
· a competitive salary.
· a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
· a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
· A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
· Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information:
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
The full role profile is attached here.
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact paul.kitley@cornwall.gov.uk
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, which displays your ability to meet each of the competencies within the role profile attached above.
You can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. 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 / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.