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Description

How You'll Make a Difference

As more eligible working parents in England can apply for government funded childcare, this expansion is helping families nationwide manage the cost of quality childcare.

As a Finance Officer you will play an important role in supporting Early Years finance. Working under the direction of the Transaction Manager, you will contribute to this expansion by reviewing existing processes to ensure the scheme is delivered efficiently, while providing full support to childminders and childcare providers.

What You Will Be Doing

It will be your responsibility to ensure deadlines and timetables are adhered to, enabling timely payments from the council to early years providers, as well as providing cover for payment runs.
You will plan and coordinate a range of financial support, departmental processes and systems, to deliver accurate and timely outputs for both internal and external customers.
With a focus on efficiency and continuous improvement within the early education and childcare scheme, you will work closely with departmental colleagues to build and maintain effective working relationships.
It will be key for you to provide financial advice and support to key stakeholders, including working with the main accounting system (D365) and ensuring spreadsheets and payment systems are managed effectively.
You will oversee the Children’s Finance team’s payments, supporting the delivery of an effective service to the People Directorate, and providing cover for Accounts Payable payment runs.
Daily, you will manage, lead, develop and motivate the team to deliver a high-quality customer responsive and value for money service.

What We Need From You

You will be Association of Accounting Technician qualified or working towards this qualification, or hold a minimum of 5 GCSEs including maths and English.

You must have knowledge and experience of working within an organisation that delivers quality and cost-effective financial management and support services, with experience of supervising a team and preparing financial and budget information.

It is essential that you have strong numeracy and literacy skills and be familiar with report writing and presenting.

It is key for you to have experience in using computerised financial databases and payment or income systems, such as Microsoft D365, CAPITA, or MOSAIC.

We require you to be able to demonstrate clear and logical thinking when assessing challenges and solving problems.

You will be able to work on your own initiative, effectively planning and prioritising your workload to meet deadlines. You will also be expected to review and update systems to ensure they continue to meet service requirements.

What You Need To Know

Your salary is pro-rata to hours worked.
This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate and from home.

Interviews will be held week commencing 20th July 2026.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

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.
We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
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.
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.

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.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Finance Officer - Transactions Team