How you’ll make a difference
Help support the effective management of public finances by joining the Children’s Department as a Finance Officer. In this key role, you will provide a range of high-quality, cost-effective financial management and support services, helping budget holders make informed decisions and ensuring financial processes are accurate, timely and efficient.
What you will be doing
- As a key point of contact for budget holders, you will be responsible for preparing accurate budget monitoring information, working closely with managers to gather, analyse and report on financial data.
- You will build effective working relationships with budget holders, communicating regularly face to face, by telephone and via email to ensure financial information is up to date and supports informed decision-making.
- It will be your responsibility to monitor and maintain financial records, ensuring information is accurate, timely and reported in line with agreed deadlines.
- You will provide a responsive and customer-focused service, ensuring requests and enquiries from internal and external customers are followed up promptly and resolved effectively.
What we need from you
- It is essential that you have good numeracy and literacy skills, with the ability to analyse information accurately and present it clearly through reports, presentations and other business correspondence.
- You will be confident using IT systems and software, with the ability to manage data effectively and produce accurate financial and performance information.
- We are looking for someone who can manage competing priorities and work to deadlines, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and within required timescales.
- You must be able to work on your own initiative, using sound judgement to organise and prioritise your workload effectively.
- Ideally, you will have experience of using Dynamics 365.
What you need to know
- Salary pro rated to hours worked.
- This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and working from home.
Interviews will be held on 19th October 2026.
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.
- Were providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
- Were positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and were 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. Were making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Finance Officer – Job Description
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