Senior Finance Officer Role A - School Contact Officer in Hove

Senior Finance Officer Role A - School Contact Officer

Location Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

Job details

Salary £33,119 to £34,811

Contractual hours 37

Basis Flexi Hours

Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages. Job category/type Finance Date posted 19/08/2026 Job reference REQ0001404

Job description

We are seeking an effective business partner who can provide high-quality financial support and advice to our Brighton & Hove schools through the Schools Finance Traded Service.

The successful applicant will join a diverse, friendly and professional team.

The Schools Finance team at Brighton and Hove City Council is performing well and has strong customer satisfaction results.

Schools are operating in an environment of increasingly tight resources with associated requirements for higher level advice.

Contract type: Fixed term for two years

Interview date: Tuesday 29 th September.

For an informal discussion, please contact Sue Pollock – Principal Accountant Schools at Sue.Pollock@brighton-hove.gov.uk.

About the role

This role is key in helping schools and other children’s services to maximise their use of resources to deliver excellent education for the children of Brighton and Hove.

The postholder will work on the team providing finance support to our schools.

To deliver this work, we are looking for someone who:

• Has a passion for supporting schools who are working in an ever more demanding environment
• Enjoys using their expertise as a finance professional to improve the service delivered to schools
• Is skilled in analysing and interpreting financial data
• Has strong communication and organisational skills
• Is skilled in developing, writing and presenting financial reports and training in an accessible manner for non-finance experts

Why us?

• You will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic team where diversity is valued. You can join the networks such as the BME Workers’ Forum, the LGBTQ Workers’ Forum, the Women’s Network, the Disabled Workers and Carers Network.
• You will be able to work flexibly, including some working from home.
• You will be required to attend the office every Tuesday for our team collaboration day.
• In the last staff survey 100% of team members said:
• • They have regular meetings with their line manager.
  • Their line manager and colleagues treat them with respect.
  • They can rely on their line manager to be there for them at work.
  • They feel fairly treated as an individual at work.
• Working in this role will give you opportunities to work on a range of tasks from delivering training to identifying and delivering process improvements and utilising the benefits of our new finance system. The Council offers a comprehensive training package to support your development.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it’s what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Why work for us?

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional Information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.