Internal Only - Finance Assistant (Career grade)

at  South Gloucestershire Council

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

By providing comprehensive financial and data processing services, you will support and contribute to the vital role the finance team plays in ensuring council funds are being distributed, controlled and spent appropriately.
In this new role, you can expect to develop your skills across a range of treasury and technical accounting activities including the preparation of the statutory annual Statement of Accounts, VAT compliance, treasury management and capital accounting.
This opportunity is being offered as a career graded role. Each grade provides a career path for partially qualified and/or experienced applicants and will enable you to develop into the full requirements of the role. Through a comprehensive training plan, you will grow your skills enabling progression through the grades.
Anticipated progression through the grades will be:
Hay 9: Finance Assistant
Hay 8: Senior Finance Assistant
Hay 7: Finance Officer

HOW A CAREER AT SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNCIL IS DIFFERENT

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.
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.
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.

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.