About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Developer Funding Team, which is part of the Council’s wider Planning Service. We are looking for a Developer Funding Finance & Monitoring Officer to join the team on a permanent, full-time basis.
The Developer Funding Team comprises the Developer Funding Manager, and a second Developer Funding Finance and Monitoring Officer who is already in post.
You will play an important role in recording Section 106 agreements, which are crucial in securing the infrastructure that Cambridgeshire needs as part of the growth agenda. You will monitor payment triggers and collect financial contributions from developers. You will also ensure that material works are undertaken by developers as required by Section 106 agreements. The role also includes responding to requests for information regarding developer contributions.
The office base is New Shire Hall in Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, with flexibility to work in alternative Council office locations, as well as home-working.
What will you be doing?
Your role will involve a number of tasks day-to-day, including:
- Data handling and maintenance of data on our systems (primarily using Microsoft Excel and the s106 software ‘Exacom’)
- Communicating with external stakeholders to monitor payment triggers and respond to queries, often by phone and email.
- Financial tasks, including calculating payment amounts and raising invoices
You will be part of a small and friendly team working across a number of the Council's functions. If you enjoy interacting with customers, developing processes and learning new software, this could be a great fit for you.
About you
The following skills will be helpful in your role:
- ability to use a range of IT systems including MS Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel, and ability to learn new software
- ability to prioritise workload and share work across the team
- excellent attention to detail
- ability to communicate with various stakeholders confidently and constructively
Please refer to the attachment below for a full job description and personal specification.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
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 firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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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