Finance Team leader - West Sussex County Council : Job Details

The Opportunity

Salary: £37,336 to £40,221 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: Hybrid working at County Hall, Chichester and remotely

Interview date: w/c 14 October

Join our team as a Finance Team Leader!

We're looking for a Finance Team Leader to join our Operational Finance team! In this exciting role, you will play a key part in supporting the rollout of our new Finance information system, Oracle. If you have a solid background in Accounts Payable and Purchase to Pay systems, this is a fantastic opportunity to help us transition from SAP to Oracle smoothly.

As our Finance Team Leader, you will be leading our Accounts Payable team, guiding them to achieve their goals while ensuring we deliver excellent, customer-focused service. Your day-to-day activities will include:

• Providing direction and support to individuals and teams, including those working across different disciplines or locations.
• Collecting data from our finance systems to help prepare monitoring and performance reports and getting ready for future data cleanup.
• Helping to develop our new finance payment systems and processes, which includes training, testing, and implementation.
• Supporting our self-service initiatives by coaching and training on our various corporate payment methods.
• Ensuring compliance with our corporate payment systems by maintaining accurate financial records.

If you're ready to make a real impact and work with a great team, we'd love to hear from you!

What are we looking for?

As our successful Finance Team Leader, you will:

• Be proactive with a can-do attitude, and a focus on personal and professional development.
• Have effective people management skills including performance management skills and the ability to provide direction and support to individuals and teams, including those working across different disciplines or locations.
• Be a good team player, keen and able to work collaboratively with stakeholders, partners and third-party suppliers to achieve outcomes within a complex operating environment.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to make the most of your talents.
• Be able to effectively manage conflicting priorities, for yourself and your team, to deliver high quality projects.
• Have an inquisitive and enquiring mind, which will aid continuous improvement and learning.
• Have a strong focus on continuous improvement and a commitment to delivering and ensuring value for money.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this, we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00870.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Danielle Kyle (Deputy Operational Finance Manager) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.