About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Finance Officer role within Disabled Children’s Finance Team. The Finance Team supports both internal colleagues and families in the implementing and monitoring of Personal Budgets/Direct Payments, as well as all other financial transactions and monitoring for the Disabled Children’s Service as a whole.
The successful candidate will play a key role in the team, assisting the Finance Manager and Finance Officer and working closely with our other Finance Assistants to produce the highest level of customer service.
You will need to be flexible, skilled in prioritising a lot of tasks at the same time and calm under pressure. Attention to detail and accuracy are a must. The ability to work with excel and financial data as well as a variety of databases will be an advantage. We will offer appropriate training and the opportunity to work with an enthusiastic team of staff.
The role will be hybrid with a combination of office-based working at the Buttsgrove Centre, Huntingdon and home working.
The salary is offered at Scale 4, (£24,294.00-£25,979.00). Starting salary will be £24,294.00.
Interviews are planned to be held on Tuesday 19th March 2024.
If you are interested in this opportunity or have questions about the role and job areas please contact Sharon Mason, Finance Officer Sharon.mason@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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 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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