Finance Officer

• Job Title:
  
  Finance Officer
• Job Location:
  
  Shire Hall
• Salary: £30,024 - £32,597 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type:
  Fixed Term
• Duration:
  One year
• Closing Date: 08/03/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 13591
• This post is not open to job share

Our Disabled Children’s Team is dedicated to improving outcomes for children and young people and their families. We work collaboratively across social care and health to provide high quality support.

We have an opportunity to recruit an experienced Finance Officer who is organised and proactive to join us on a fixed term basis for one year, to support our work on financial accuracy, tracking and reporting of our financial commitments. This will include supporting finance related panels for short breaks, direct payments and all activities that are commissioned for our young people.

• Supporting the tracking of all financial records and ensuring meaningful accurate data is captured at a child level
• Produce regular financial reports
• Alongside the Strategic Finance Team, understand and monitor budgets
• Identify anomalies, resolve financial queries and escalate any concerns to maintain financial integrity
• Support high-cost panels
• Contribute to service audits

You will have proven finance reporting and analytical skills, have an AAT qualification and be able to manage your workload to meet deadlines. Ideally you will have experience of working within children’s services, social care, education or the public sector.

• Regular formal and informal support.
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision.
• Access to relevant training and career progression.
• Annual leave of 25.5 days (pro rata) up to 30.5 days (pro rata) after 5 years employment.
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to support you and your family.
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply).

Working in Children’s Social Care does require an applicant who can be proactive or responsive to changing demands and resilient to some of the tough emotional content of the role. However, it is also a role that can bring great reward and job satisfaction.

If you feel that you have the skills and experience required to make a positive difference, then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” button. If you need any further information, please contact michelle.

Short listed candidates will be contacted by email and invited to interview.

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:

Finance Officer - Job Profile

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability
* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to recrui, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error.

By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.

a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.