Finance Offficer
Position: Finance Officer
Location : Taunton Somerset, TA1 4DY(Hybrid working, attend County Hall, Taunton when required)
Contract length : 8-9months (with possibility of extension)
Responsibilities:
- This post will be supporting our Education and Inclusion team within finance, and in addition to the general duties above this position will support with the following duties:
- Supporting with forecasting and management of budgets for a range of cost centres within Education and Inclusion Services.
- Allocating High Needs Top Up Funding for Children & Young People across a range of different types of education providers (Early Years, Mainstream, Special, FE, Independent etc).
- Assisting with the day to day payments process for High Needs, balancing budgets, forecasting and reporting to SEND operational managers on a monthly basis.
- Supporting with school academisation payments and final settlements and assisting with recording various financial returns from schools.
Experience:
- Analysis and interpretation of financial information
- Financial/Budget monitoring experience
- Experience of working in a finance environment and dealing with complex accounting and statutory reporting issues
- Experience of using Microsoft Excel and Outlook.
- Knowledge of County Council accounting methods/systems (SAP)
- Deals with queries and requests in a professional manner.
- customer focussed.
Plusses / Desirable:
- Completed or working towards Association of Accounting Technician (AAT) qualification or equivalent.
- In-depth knowledge of financial management including tools and techniques. or equivalent.
- In-depth knowledge of financial management including tools and techniques.
Required skills
- Borough
- Budgeting
- Budgets
- Finance
- Government
- Local Government
- Monitor
- SAP
- finance officer
- council
Reference: 52485346
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