Job Description

How you'll make a difference:

As a Finance Officer, you will support the delivery of a range of quality and cost effective financial management and financial support within the children's department of the council.


What you will be doing:
As the key point of contact for budget holders, you will be responsible for the preparation of budget monitoring information. This involves working closely with budget holders, both face to face and over the telephone and email to ensure up to date information is received. It will be your responsibility to ensure prompt follow up on requests from internal and external customers.
What we need from you:
You must have good numeracy and literacy skills and be familiar with report writing, presentations and IT. You need to have the ability to work with competing demands to meet deadlines. We require you to have the ability to work on your own initiative and prioritise your workload effectively. Ideally, you will have knowledge of Dynamics 365.

What you need to know:
This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and working from home. This is for a 7 month limited term contract.

Interviews will be held on Thursday 11th December 2025.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different:
As part of our benefits package, you will receive

generous annual leave

(pro rata), employee

wellbeing support

and you will have access to a range of

staff discounts

, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. We recognise that our

diverse team

of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities. We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine

flexibility

to help them achieve that

work/life balance.

We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference, and we continue to

invest in technology

to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and

celebrate innovation.

We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our

training and development

offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.


Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

We're providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community. We're positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we're ambitious about the future.


We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We're making a difference, be part of it!

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