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 take a senior role in the team, assisting the Finance Manager and working closely with our 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.
If you are interested in this opportunity or have questions about the role and job areas please contact Trish Lenton, Finance Manager trish.lenton@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Interviews are planned to be held on Wednesday 1st November 2023.
What will you be doing?
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.
About you
- 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.
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.
