Finance Officer

One of my local government clients are currently recruiting an experienced Finance Officer on a temporary basis. This is a 3-month minimum contract with the possibility of the role being extended further to work Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm. Hybrid working role were, however, you will be required to attend the office 2/3 times a week. Overview:

• Work in a small placements team, serving two councils, which commissions placements for children and young people aged 0 – 25 in a range of settings including foster care, residential children’s homes, residential parent and child assessment centres and semi-Independent units.
• To manage a range of activities relating to financial payments, management information and processes.
• To assist the team and managers to manage the children’s placement budget and meet performance targets relating to the placement of Looked After Children.
• Use council systems including Mosaic databases and be proficient in the MS Office suite of applications including Excel.
• Take responsibility for financial management within teams and projects, including savings delivery, and ensures value for money and the efficient use of resources.
• Engage with appropriate teams to maximise consensus and manage change effectively; this would also include working collaboratively with professional network for looked after children including social workers, SEN, ICB as well as close working with the independent / private sector to effectively manage the market and ensure future needs are met.
• Ensure all work has the required standard of quality assurance and governance and risk management.

Duties:

• Maintain an overview of children’s placements, advising managers on trends and implications, in particularly regarding placement stability and high cost and long-term external placements.
• Work with financial information and a range of systems– e.g. downloading transactions, running reports.
• Ensure accurate timely payments, resolving supplier (and other) queries, and interrogating systems and processes to support these.
• To provide finance team and social worker teams with financial information relating to placement costs and supplier payments. This will include activity data and unit cost information
• To undertake reconciliations of supplier accounts.
• Identify errors on invoices and miscoding and take actions to make corrections.
• To assist the finance team with the payment process, relating to invoice queries and follow up with suppliers.
• To load commitments onto the social work system and for invoices to be recorded stored appropriately.
• Safeguard the reputation of the council and use professional expertise to identify and mitigate risk.
• Contribute to the delivery of high-quality transformation projects, providing ownership, leadership and expertise across project cycles to ensure high quality services, desired outcomes and improved efficiencies.
• Develop strong working relationships to drive efficient delivery of service transformation and improvement programmes.
• Ensure that partners, stakeholders and service users are effectively engaged and involved in service improvement and transformation activity.

If you are interested in this vacancy, please send your CV to Jahker Miah from Coyle Personnel Ltd