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Finance Assistant - Fixed term/secondment opportunity for 6 months due to funding.

Salary: Band: 5 £22,437 - £24,148

37 hours per week

Portsmouth City Council

At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.

With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

Your New Role

Working within a small finance team you will provide high quality finance and administrative support to departments within the Council. You will need to be computer literate as you will be using the councils computerised financial systems to raise and pay invoices as well as processing internal transfers. As well as administrative support such as financial reconciliations, data entry and general administration duties, you will resolve customer queries.

What you'll need to succeed

As well as being computer literate you will have good organisation and prioritising skills to enable you to meet deadlines. You will have the ability to use financial information systems, ideally with some experience of using computerised finance packages. You will have the ability to form good relationships and have good verbal and written communication skills. Some experience of working in a finance environment would be advantageous.

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role

What you'll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Application process:

Please read the full job profile ( click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points in the profile with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is important, or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' information.

If applying as a secondment you will need permission from your current line manager releasing you for this secondment. Please state you have this on your application form.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

Closing time/date : 10 September 2023 @ 23.59 pm

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact [email protected]