The Opportunity
Salary: £39,862 to £42,839 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: County Hall, Chichester and working from home (Hybrid)
Interview date: w/c 06 October 2025
The Senior Finance Officer, forms part of the Financial Planning Team in Corporate Finance. Your responsibilities are varied, incorporating all aspects of project accounting, statutory returns and the application of internal governance.
You will work directly with the service they support providing reliable, efficient and accurate information. This will include responding to day-to-day client queries, producing and updating monthly highlight reports, providing monthly complex information in a clear and concise manner, maintaining and reconciling records on SAP, and working alongside service colleagues to produce detailed businesses cases for future investment.
What are we looking for:
As well as being a finance professional with experience in delivering a finance business partnering model, you will also need to be a:
* Strategic thinker – someone who can think beyond the surface of a task / issue and provide a strategic view and added value to the service we provide.
* Relationship manager – someone with the ability to successfully manage key client relationships.
* Critical friend – someone with the ability to challenge, persuade, negotiate and influence the service that you support.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
* an excellent local government pension scheme
* generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
* a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
* maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
* volunteering opportunities
* training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
* a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
* health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further information
The reference number for this role is CRS00974.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Gary Jefkins (Capital Programme Manager) at For issues or queries regarding your application please contact
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to, references, health check and right to work in the UK.
West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.
For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran's Guaranteed Interview Scheme, this can be found on ourapplication help page.
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Job Reference: CRS00974