About the role
For more information or to arrange an informal discussion about this opportunity please contact Martin Wade or Kerry Newson at Finance@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
What will you be doing?
You will be involved in range of financial activities and will be integral to supporting the finance team to fund and monitor maintained schools as part of the annual financial cycle.
You will be responsible for monitoring, reconciling and passporting grant funding to maintained schools.
You will be responsible for maintaining financial policies and guidance for maintained schools to reflect national and local changes.
You will be working alongside colleagues in the Children’s finance team, as well as liaising directly with school finance staff.
About you
We are looking to appoint a committed and self-motivated individual who is focussed on providing good quality financial advice to customers, with excellent communication skills to deal with both finance and non-finance staff within schools and the wider finance team.
Ideally you will need to be a fully or part-qualified accounting technician (AAT) and be able to demonstrate experience in a similar financial setting, together with strong technical accounting skills.
The successful candidate must be proactive and able to work under their own initiative, as well as contributing to wider team objectives.
We are committed to the professional development of our staff in the Finance Team, so don’t be worried if you don’t have a background in Schools finance.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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