Business and Finance Support Officer - Yate

As a Business and Finance Support Officer within the Early Years team, you will act as the first point of contact for early years settings and parents, providing information on early entitlement funding and the availability of childcare places. You will also support the collation of data and financial information to ensure accurate and effective service delivery.

As a valued member of the team, you will contribute to delivering sustainable excellence in early years practice, helping to ensure that all children are supported within a safe, high-quality provision and are able to achieve positive outcomes.

As the first point of contact for the team, you will:

• Answer calls and deal with email queries from early years providers and parents, directing them to guidance, resources and further information.
• Research, collect, collate and present information in a clear and accurate way, contributing to early year reports.
• Support providers with accessing the early years portal, including completing census and financial returns and helping with any queries.
• Accurately record financial information and maintain records relating to early years.

We require you to hold three GCSEs (grade 4 or above) or equivalent qualification, including English and maths. It is essential that you have well-developed interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships and engage successfully with early years providers, parents and other agencies. You must have good literacy, numeracy and IT skills to enable you to present accurate reports and records. You will be organised, have strong attention to detail and be motivated to learn.

Your salary is pro-rata to hours worked. This is a limited term contract, due to end 1st June 2027. This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and from home. You may also be expected to visit other early years sites such as our training room at Parkwall Primary School. Interviews will be held on 14th May 2026.

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 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. We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of. We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life. We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential. We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference. We're making a difference, be part of it!