Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant - 6 month Fixed-Term contract

Position overview

The Accountancy Service of the Finance Directorate currently has a vacancy for 1 Finance Officers (Scale 5), to be part of teams (specifically Children providing accounting and business support across a range of financial services.

These posts present an excellent opportunity to develop your career through gaining experience within the Council’s corporate accountancy service in these challenging times.

Roles have generic job descriptions across the department’s full range of accounting services, providing flexibility for the organisation and the individual. Successful candidates will be matched to the area where their skills best fit.

Who we are looking for:

Finance Assistant responsibilities include to:

• Have responsibility to provide support for a defined range of financial processes e.g. budgets, monitoring, reconciliations, maintaining financial records, transactions and controls
• Provide advice to service managers and others on agreed financial procedures
• Work on your own and with others to utilise your capabilities with Excel, other IT and communication skills to analyse and prepare financial information in a clear and timely manner.

Further details of the role that you could be playing, along with the skills and experience needed, can be seen within the Job Description and Person Specification.

When completing your application please include your areas of experience and demonstrate how this meets the requirements for the role.

Closing Date: Friday 19th June 2026 – 5.00pm

Interviews: Week Commencing 6th July 2026

For an informal discussion please contact Elizabeth Hesketh at elizabeth.hesketh@royalgreenwich.gov.uk or 0208 921 2830

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.