ABOUT THE TEAM

It is an exciting time to join the Finance team. The team is being developed to provide an exceptional Finance service supporting and enabling front line policing. This includes supporting transformational change, driving commercial opportunities and building strong relationships across the Force and with our partners. We are looking for excellent finance professionals to provide a range of services across the team including transactional processing, business partner support and strategic planning. As well as a strong grounding in financial services, candidates will have an ethos of continuous improvement to support ongoing development of the service, the team and the Force. A background in public sector finance would be an advantage. This is a real opportunity to guide future direction and make a real difference.

REQUIREMENTS

For this role, we need you to have experience of:

• Proven experience in interpreting and applying policies and procedures
• Experience of explaining difficult issues such as interpretation of policies to staff and managers
• A sound knowledge of database management, Microsoft Office suites, including Word, Excel, Outlook and CBIS
• Excellent customer care and interpersonal skills to clearly explain policies, procedures to staff at all levels, consistently maintaining confidentiality and discretion.
• Proven administrative and organisational skills with a specialised administration unit with evidence of meeting and negotiating deadlines, as well as effectively prioritising a changing workload

APPLICANTS WHO FAIL TO ADDRESS THE SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

The closing date for applications is 29th April 2025 23:59 .
Following shortlisting, successful candidates will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, to be held week commencing 12th May 2025
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ABOUT THE ROLE

The successful candidate will provide high quality, effective and timely support for Police Officers and Support Staff to Client Departments, providing a range of administrative support functions relating to some or all the following: Processing of requisitions such as stationery items, raising of manual invoices for claiming income and expenditure, processing overtime and expense claims, calculating interpreter payments.

RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will be:

• To be responsible for processing requisition orders for Client Departments in accordance with Procurement & Financial Regulations, checking for completeness and budgetary provision., on the appropriate Financial system.
• To be responsible for receipting of goods and supplies on the appropriate Financial system in a timely manner against confirmation of receipt and to contact Client Departments to check status of delivery if confirmation not received.
• To be responsible for reviewing the validity of commitments created on the Financial System via purchase orders by contacting Client Departments to verify transaction is still outstanding.
• To be the first point of contact for all Client Departments and to deal withenquiries in a timely and efficient manner whether in person, email, written or telephone.
• To be responsible for raising manual debtor invoices for payment, and to contact debtors chasing payment when required/ overdue.

For this role, we need you to have experience of:

• Proven experience in interpreting and applying policies and procedures
• Experience of explaining difficult issues such as interpretation of policies to staff and managers
• A sound knowledge of database management, Microsoft Office suites, including Word, Excel, Outlook and CBIS
• Excellent customer care and interpersonal skills to clearly explain policies, procedures to staff at all levels, consistently maintaining confidentiality and discretion.
• Proven administrative and organisational skills with a specialised administration unit with evidence of meeting and negotiating deadlines, as well as effectively prioritising a changing workloa