Finance Officer

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Finance Officer supporting the Council to deliver its new Council Plan and Enabling Barnsley Strategy.

Working within the Finance Business Unit in the Operational Finance teams Social Care Payments and Assessment team, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring the Council’s Section 151 Officer’s responsibilities are fulfilled and that services receive an efficient, effective and market leading financial support service that supports our ambitions for our Enabling Barnsley Strategy.

The Council will support the successful candidate to adopt the culture and behaviours of a modern, agile, healthy, engaged, skilled and innovative workforce.

About the role

Reporting to the Finance Team Leader the Finance Officer will provide excellent customer service and high quality, accurate financial support across a range of financial functions, contributing towards ensuring that the Council’s core financial systems are accurate, up to date and maintained and that financial processing of information is completed in a timely manner to support the delivery of the Council’s core priorities and support Directorates to deliver efficient and effective services.

This is a varied and rewarding role that supports the delivery of essential Adult Social Care financial services. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring care providers are paid accurately and on time, while also undertaking financial assessments to determine fair and affordable contributions towards care and support services. Working closely with service users, families, care providers, Adult Social Care colleagues and external organisations, you will help ensure that payments, charging arrangements and financial information are managed efficiently, accurately and in accordance with relevant legislation, Council policy and financial regulations.

About you

Adopting an enthusiastic, positive attitude to problem solving, and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, being able to adapt their approach, behaviours, and actions to address the tasks in hand being able to work as part of a core team and flexible in their approach to meet the demands of the business unit and wider council. You will be the type of person who thrives on a challenge and can use your skills to deliver outcomes that really make a difference.