Finance Officer Headquarters

Finance Officer (Maidstone, Headquarters)

Location of Role: Maidstone

Advert Closing Date: 25/03/2026

Starting Salary: £33,696.00(pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time:Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full‑time Finance Officer based in Maidstone.

This role will provide a comprehensive forecasting, reporting, budgeting, and analytical service to Kent and Essex Police. The post‑holder will be responsible for establishing, validating, and evidencing year‑end accruals and prepayments, as well as delivering high‑quality financial support to Budget Managers across the Force. This includes assisting with budget formulation and offering informed, proactive financial advice.

This role will assist with the development and maintenance of departmental financial management systems to maintain and enhance the standards of financial awareness.

The role will offer flexibility in terms of place of work, including the potential to work from home for those who would like to. If home working is agreed for the successful candidate, there will be a requirement to regularly attend a designated ‘Team Zone’ location on average one or two days a week, as agreed with the line manager. Currently the designated Team Zone for this role is located at Force Headquarters, Sutton Road, Maidstone.

Additionally, there may be a requirement to visit the IT department located in Coldharbour, Maidstone for induction meetings.

Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £39,525.00.

Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description.

Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance. During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete.

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us i stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on  Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.