Finance & Performance Officer
- Employer
- Birmingham City Council
- Location
- BIRMINGHAM
- Closing date
- 7 Feb 2025
- Reference
- 2715
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- Sector
- Local Councils
- Job Type
- Finance
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Working Pattern
- Standard
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
Finance and Performance Officer
Permanent,
Grade 4 - £33,366 - £40,476
Working 36.5 hours per week
Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.
Non-UK applicants (excluding Ireland) would be required to hold a relevant Visa from the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI).
Unfortunately, we do not currently have the resources to support visa sponsorship for this position.
The Children and Young Peoples’ Travel Service (CYPTS) have recently gone through a service redesign. CYPTS currently provide 6,000 children and young people for whom without transport provision would not be able to attend education
We are looking for a Finance and Performance Officer who will report to the Operational, Finance and Performance Manager.
As a team member, you will supervise and manage the administering and processing all service-related invoices, collecting, and analysing data, proactively monitor budget and forecast of the service, you will need to be proactive, reliable, show initiative and passionate about being part of a team.
What will you deliver:
- This post will involve all aspects of the full financial cycle from maintaining the budget, Monthly revenue monitoring and closing the accounts.
- Managing the budget: this includes forecasting future income and expenses, creating Budgets and balance sheets and ensuring that spending is within budget limits.
- Preparing financial reports: weekly transaction monitoring, spend approvals report, Income statements, balance sheets, Preparing of accruals.
- Data collection, validation and management
- Manipulate, analyse and interpret complex data sets
- Produce visualisations and reports and present findings to stakeholders in a clear, actionable manner
We are looking for someone who accepts responsibility for delivering results, with:
- A qualification in finance or substantial relevant experience as well as proven financial acumen
- Extremely Strong MS Excel knowledge
- Good knowledge of management accounting, planning, budgeting, forecasting and
- performance management.
- Ability to translate numbers and data into useful information that can be used by an organisation to solve business problems
- Ability to develop an improvement plan and carry out corrective actions
- Ability to work in a pressurised environment and manage competing priorities in changing circumstances.
- Experience in producing finance reports including charts, pivot tables, graphs.
- Good editing, data collection, record keeping with extensive analysis skillset.
Benefits offered by BCC:
- Hybrid Working (this will include working from home as well as from Birmingham office)
- 30 days of Annual Leave entitlement raising to 33 days after 5 years of service and to 35 days after 10 years of service
- The West Midlands Pension Fund which is one of the UK's largest pension funds
- Fitness and leisure schemes, Discounted bus and tram tickets, Cycle 2 Work salary sacrifice scheme, Rewards including thousands of high street and online retailers, Car leasing salary sacrifice scheme
- And much more
For any informal enquires please contact: Gosia Sikora-Islam Gosia.Sikora-Islam@birmingham.gov.uk
You must upload a Supporting Statement and CV via the attachments part of your application. This is required for shortlisting; you need to describe how your experience and skills fit the essential criteria for the role as specified in the Person Specification. If you do not attach your Supporting Statement and CV, your application will not be considered.
Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.
We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.
Closing date 6th February 2025 at 23.59. Previous applicants need not apply.
Ref: BCC2715
Interviews will take place in person. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further information.
We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.
Job Description and Person Specification
Company
Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city.
We welcome people from diverse and underrepresented communities and encourage applications from, those with caring responsibilities, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, neurodivergent, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff and removing barriers to improve inclusion. We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.
Information for applicants with a disability
We are a proud Disability Confident Employer. We encourage applicants to disclose disabilities, so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Please contact: 0121 675 7070 option 3 (lines open between 8.45am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday).
If you require an application in an alternative format, such as Braille or you are unable to complete an application form via WMJOBS, please contact bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk. When you have completed your application form this can be returned to bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk or for Braille applications these can be posted to, Recruitment Team, 2nd Floor, 10 Woodcock Street, B7 4BG.
The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence.
There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:
- A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
- An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
- A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
- A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
- A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.
We see the Council’s role as providing strategic leadership – that’s being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making.
We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision. We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.
In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.
Birmingham City Council is a Foundation Living wage employer - known as the Birmingham Living Wage. The Birmingham Living Wage, is determined by the Living Wage Foundation on an annual basis by the Centre of Research in Society Polity at Loughborough University. The current rate can be found at: www.livingwage.org.uk.
For the awards and support for our employees, please follow https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/homepage/169/job_vacancies
- Website
- http://birmingham.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 0121 675 7070
- Location
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Birmingham City Council
Birmingham
West Midlands
B2 2XU
United Kingdom
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