Finance Officer in Yate

As a Finance Officer, you will support the delivery of a range of quality and cost-effective financial management services, supporting the income side transaction team.

• As a key point of contact for Transport and Project Managers, you will support them with financial administration tasks, ensuring they are completed accurately and to time.
• Regularly, you will provide financial advice and support to the Senior Accountant and relevant budget holders. This will involve accessing the main and subsidiary accounting systems, utilising spreadsheets, and applying specific software tools.
• It will be key for you to be the main contact for budget holders, preparing quarterly budget monitoring information and contributing to the development of revenue and capital budgets.
• As required, you will ensure a prompt follow-up on requests for information from budget holders.
• It will be your responsibility to co-ordinate the recharges to projects, ensuring that these are completed on time to support monthly monitoring.
• Using your own initiative, you will develop and prioritise work, managing your time to ensure key deadlines are met.
• You will support budget holders in the preparation of grant claims and quarterly monitoring reports, ensuring you meet financial reporting requirements.

• You may hold an Association of Accounting Technicians qualification or be working towards this or have gained equivalent relevant experience working in a similar role.
• It is essential that you have gained knowledge and experience of working in an organisation that delivers a range of quality and cost-effective financial management and support services including the preparation of financial and budget information.
• You need to have strong numeracy and literacy skills and be experienced in report writing, presentations and IT.
• We require you to be able to demonstrate clear and logical thinking in assessing challenges and problem solving.
• Although not essential, you may have knowledge of Microsoft D365.

Interviews will be held in person at our offices in Yate on 4^th September 2025

• As part of our benefits package, you will receivegenerous annual leave(pro rata), employeewellbeing supportand you will have access to a range ofstaff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that ourdiverse teamof 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 genuineflexibilityto help them achieve thatwork/life balance.
• We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference, and we continue toinvest in technologyto help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability andcelebrate innovation.
• We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of ourtraining and developmentoffer, 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 providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
• We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.
  

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!

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