Senior Finance Officer

Salary: £30,559 - £33,366

This is a Permanent Full Time position

We are looking for a talented Senior Finance Officer to join our Finance team.

Improve your work-life balance and develop your career. We are happy to discuss flexible working and there is scope to agree to reduced hours. Agile working allows employees to work flexibly to balance their home and work needs with a minimum of one day in the office per week.

We are based in the beautiful Brocks Hill country park in Oadby and this part of Leicestershire is a great place to live, work and visit. Our council is a great organisation to work for, we offer a competitive salary and fantastic benefits including great holiday, flexi-time and the generous local government pension scheme. You can find more information about our benefits here https://www.oadby-wigston.gov.uk/pages/employee_benefits

The Finance Team are responsible for all areas of Income and Expenditure of the Council ensuring it is all accounted for efficiently.

The Senior Finance officer (Income Management) will undertake responsibilities including managing the transactional services, including Debtors, Income management, Bank Reconciliation, Debt management and Insurances.

If you have significant experience in Finance, are able to produce robust bank reconciliation and have a thorough knowledge of Debtors and Income management we would love to hear from you. You can find out more by viewing the job description and person specification.

At Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, we are proud of our diversity and recognise the value this brings. We are fair and inclusive and welcome applications from people with different backgrounds.

We guarantee an interview with anyone who either has a disability or is a reservist/veteran and meets the criteria for this role.

Please contact recruitment@oadby-wigston.gov.uk for any informal enquiries or Laura Parsons (Finance Manager) at laura.parsons@oadby-wigston.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

There may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

To apply for this role you must complete our online application form https://myaccount.oadby-wigston.gov.uk/service/OWBC_Job_Application_Form (CVs will not be accepted)

If you have not heard from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage of the recruitment process.

Closing date: Friday, 31 January 2025