Senior Finance Assistant
Job specification
As part of our Children’s Commissioning Team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality financial services that underpin services for children and young people, and Swindon Families.
Your next role
As a Senior Finance Assistant, you’ll help ensure the effective delivery of accurate, timely and high quality financial support across the Children’s Commissioning team. Working as part of the team, you will:
- Process journals, recharges, and grants to support effective budgetary control.
- Complete and provide cover for daily and monthly payment runs, ensuring accuracy and issue resolution.
- Undertake complex reconciliations across various financial systems and identify improvements to prevent reoccurrence.
- Provide advice and support to budget managers.
- Assist with monthly financial reporting, including salary monitoring, year-end processing, and the preparation of elements of the Statement of Accounts.
- Support both internal and external audits by interrogating financial systems and providing appropriate evidence.
- Respond to financial queries from managers, suppliers, and occasionally external customers, resolving issues efficiently and professionally.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of financial processes and systems, sharing ideas and learning with the wider team.
About you
You will bring demonstrable experience of working in a finance role within an organisation, supported by:
- Strong numeracy, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in financial IT systems and MS Excel.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a strong customer focus.
- Attention to detail, with the ability to work methodically and prioritise effectively.
- 5 GCSEs, or equivalent, including Maths and English at grade 4/C or above.
You’ll also share our values; Connected, Resilient, and Brave, showing commitment to collaboration, continuous improvement, and putting Swindon and its people at the heart of everything you do.
Your next package
Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.
As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.
For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.
Please see our Vision and Values page for more details.
Please see our new Swindon Plan
Your next steps
Read the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.
Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.
For further information about the role please contact aura Boyce, Service Manager, email lboyce@swindon.gov.uk
As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion
If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk