Job Category : Financial
Location : Central Library, Bromley Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £11.00
We are looking for an enthusiastic person with financial awareness and experience of working in a busy team. You will need excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational and IT skills to join our established multi-agency, early intervention, community-based Service. The role supports five different teams within Children’s Social Care Early Intervention, working across 9 different venues within Bromley.
The working environment is highly pressured, with many externally driven non-negotiable deadlines across these different services. These deadlines often overlap and careful planning, organisation and creative thinking is required to prevent any of the services failing to achieve their reporting and financial deadlines. The post holder will be required to undertake a range of financial functions within a local authority financial environment and must be able to successfully: –
· Manage the daily financial tasks e.g. researching best value for money, ordering goods, raising / paying invoices
· Complete basic budget reconciliation in line with Financial Regulations
· Maintain and administer the various asset logs
· Staff the daily facilities and cleaning contract helpline for all remote sites within EIFS and maintain and action the respective Incident Logs
The multi-service support and extensive range of external customers and suppliers will require the successful candidate to have strong and effective communication and negotiation skills, in order to robustly challenge where necessary e.g. utility providers. There will be an expectation that you will support service improvement looking for ways to strengthen our financial processes, including reporting and accessibility of physically held supporting data required for auditing.
Applicants should enjoy working as part of a team, as well as independently. Flexibility is essential e.g. working peripatetically across different sites. Experience of working in partnership with a range of people is essential for the smooth running of the service. Applicants must demonstrate clear evidenced knowledge and application of the skills, abilities, knowledge as described in the person specification and be Qualified to Level 3 including English and Maths, or relevant financial experience.
QUALIFICATIONS
Qualified to Level 3 including English and Maths, or hold a recognised financial qualification, or significant relevant financial experience.