The Finance Team in Cambridgeshire is well regarded and is a key support service that helps the smooth running of the Council and ensures value for money for local taxpayers.

Working with an experienced lead for school financial support, this role makes a real difference to the financial sustainability of our schools and is a key part of ensuring good stewardship of public funds. 

This post will be term-time only within our traded finance team who support maintained schools as part of the annual financial cycle.

We work on a hybrid basis at Cambridgeshire, this role is primarily homebased with the option to use the office when necessary and to visit schools when needed.

Re-location support can be provided to eligible people who move to the local area for this role. 

Interviews are expected to take place in week commencing 7 October 2024.

For more information or to arrange an informal discussion about this opportunity please contact Ray Byford at Finance@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

You will be involved in range of financial activities and will be integral to supporting schools set and monitor sustainable budgets.

You will be responsible for providing high quality financial support and advice to head teachers and governors.

You will be working alongside other business partners in the Children’s finance team, as well as liaising with colleagues across the CEF directorate.

We are looking to appoint a committed and self-motivated financial professional to support the team in the provision of a comprehensive financial support service to our customers and partners.

Ideally you would be a fully or part-qualified accounting technician, or have extensive relevant experience, and be able to demonstrate experience in budget setting, monitoring and planning, together with strong technical accounting skills. You should have a proven track record of undertaking complex financial analysis and possess the ability to communicate this information in an understandable manner.

We are committed to the professional development of our staff in the Finance Team, so don’t be worried if you don’t have a background in Schools finance.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers