Finance Support Assistant
| Posting date: | 21 August 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 September 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE3 8RS |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5959 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Leicestershire & Home (Hybrid Worker)
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Grade 6 - £25,995 to £26,409
Working Hours: 37
Contract Type: 1x Permanent & 1x Fixed Term 1 Year
Closing Date: Sunday 7th September 2025
Interview Date(s): Week commencing 15th September 2025
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality financial services that make a difference? We’re looking for two detail-oriented and proactive Finance Support Assistants to join our Special Educational Needs (SEN) finance team.
About the Role
You’ll be responsible for validating and processing payments to SEN providers and schools, resolving financial queries, and maintaining accurate records across systems. This is a great opportunity for someone with strong attention to detail, good IT skills, and a commitment to delivering excellent customer service.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- have an NVQ Level 2 qualification in Finance, Business Administration, or equivalent GCSEs, or equivalent experience.
- be confident working with financial systems and Microsoft Office products in a fast-paced environment.
- be committed to delivering excellent customer service and have experience and skills to handle queries and correspondence efficiently and professionally by phone, email or in writing.
- have the skills and experience to gather information, interpret, analyse, and complete tasks timely and accurately
- demonstrate an understanding of the importance of confidentiality and accurate data management.
- be able to manage your own workload and meet deadlines independently.
- be proactive in identifying improvements and contributing to service development.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Liam Brown (Design & Improvement Lead)
Telephone: 0116 305 0045
Email: Liam.Brown@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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