Job Description

The Opportunity

Salary:

27,254 to 28,598 per annum

Working Pattern:

Full time, 37 hours per week

Contract type:

Fixed term or Secondment until 30 April 2026

Location:

County Hall, Chichester and working from home (Hybrid)

Interview date:

w/c 29 September 2025



Join our fantastic Financial Control Team in Corporate Finance! In this role, you will dive into a mix of responsibilities, providing reliable, efficient and effective flexible support to a team (or across teams) of a high-level administrative nature relating to the delivery of a specialist financial service.



Furthermore, as our Senior Finance Assistant, you will take part in the following:




Undertaking reconciliations to ensure accurate and timely record keeping Supporting the treasury management function to sustain cashflow and maximising the use of resources Preparing correspondence to satisfy audit testing Producing reports to support the wider finance function Maintaining master data and processing transactions

What are we looking for?

You will possess relevant technical knowledge of procedures and practices associated with operating a specialist administrative service. You will also possess good working knowledge of MS Excel and SAP or other similar equivalent IT finance and performance systems. Sound and accurate overall IT knowledge, including Microsoft Office. Knowledge and awareness of the processes and systems associated with working within a financial and performance management environment. An awareness of accounting principles and/or performance analysis. methodologies.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the 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

25

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

CRS00973

.



For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Sean McEwan (Finance Manager - Financial Control) at

Sean.McEwan@westsussex.gov.uk

. For issues or queries regarding your application please contact

hrrecruitment@westsussex.gov.uk

.

Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.



To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.



We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our

application help

page.





CC



Job Reference: CRS00973