Finance Officer - Career Graded

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has made rapid and significant progress on its improvement journey and it is an exciting time to join Rotherham. Rotherham is ideally located with excellent road and rail links and is ideally placed near the scenic countryside of the Peak District.

We offer an excellent pay and benefits package which includes membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as a range of health and wellbeing and other benefits. This makes working for us an attractive proposition. If you have the ambition to make a real difference and are committed to delivering an excellent service for our residents, we welcome your application.

To build for the future and to make our structure more sustainable, a career graded post (F to H) has been implemented into RMBC’s Finance Business Partnering teams. The Career graded post allows the officer to transition with training and develop with experience from the more junior post in our structure through to being ready to become the Principal Finance Officer of the future. The post provides administrative and financial support to Finance team members and to stakeholders in the Housing Service.

As this role is a training grade, the successful applicant will work through the AAT levels, achieving Band G on completion of Level 3 and Band H on completion of Level 4, noting that if already achieved these levels, and have the relative experience, the starting grade will be adjusted accordingly. The role, responsibility of the role and grade will progress and become more challenging along with the level of training to match the grade, i.e the grade and responsibilities taken on by the post holder will progress together.

As a result of internal transfer of the previous postholder, we are looking for an ambitious, inquisitive, and innovative Finance Officer to join our Housing Business Partnering team. If you are looking for a career enhancing opportunity to make a genuine difference, then we would love to hear from you.

It is essential you have experience of working in a finance or audit role including operating or auditing computerised or manual financial systems and a proven track record of understanding and presenting financial information.

Specific work areas covered by this role include budget setting and budget monitoring, contributions to business planning, final accounts close-down and support and technical advice to budget holders.

Please view the Job/Person profile for a full description of the role and person specification. Please note: we will shortlist according to the shortlisting and interview criteria from the job profile.

If you would like more information about this position or an informal chat, please contact Jo-Ann Sheppard, Principal Finance Officer Housing on 01709 255993 or Email: Jo-Ann.Sheppard@Rotherham.gov.uk or Stephanie Humphrey, Principal Finance Officer Housing on 01709 215886 or Email: Stephanie.Humphrey@Rotherham.gov.uk. To apply please click the Apply Now link below.

Seniority level

• Internship

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Finance and Sales
• Industries: Government Administration