Compliance and Reporting Officer

• Support Council services with purchasing and receipting processes
• Resolve complex queries across financial systems
• Produce reports
• Prepare statutory reports with the Compliance and Reporting Manager
• Analyse performance data to identify trends
• Suggest service improvements
• Use benchmarking data from other authorities to improve delivery
• Support transactional financial year-end processes
• Advise management of significant failures in control procedures
• Take responsibility for remedial actions when standard policies are disputed
• Update policies or user guides
• Resolve issues with minimal supervision

Requirements

• Solid knowledge of income and payment processes, ideally within a large organisation
• Strong analytical skills
• High attention to detail
• Ability to convert raw data and findings into persuasive, evidence-based arguments
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to build effective relationships across finance and non-finance teams
• Ability to update policies or user guides
• Ability to use own judgment to resolve issues with minimal supervision
• Ability to work from the office 3 days a week

Core Competencies

Demonstrates strong analytical skills and attention to detail in financial processes, with the ability to produce and analyze reports, update policies, and resolve complex queries effectively. Capable of building relationships across teams and providing evidence-based recommendations for service improvements.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Analytical Skills
• Income And Payment Processes
• Report Production
• Policy Updating
• Communication Skills

Hard Skills

• Financial Systems
• Data Analysis
• Performance Data Analysis
• Statutory Reporting
• Benchmarking Data Utilization

Soft Skills

• Attention To Detail
• Relationship Building
• Judgment In Issue Resolution

Industry Keywords

• Purchasing Processes
• Receipting Processes
• Transactional Financial Processes
• Service Improvements
• Control Procedures