About the role
We are looking to recruit to the post of High Needs Funding Senior Finance Co-ordinator within North Northamptonshire Council. This is an exciting and varied opportunity working across Children’s Services, supporting the delivery of high-quality financial processes within the High Needs Funding, EHC and Education Inclusion services.
This is a key role within a fast-paced environment, responsible for ensuring the accurate processing, monitoring and delivery of High Needs funding. You will work closely with schools, internal teams and external providers to support effective financial management and ensure funding is allocated in line with statutory and corporate requirements.
The role will involve overseeing financial processes, maintaining robust systems, and ensuring compliance with corporate financial regulations. You will also contribute to the operational delivery of High Needs Funding functions and provide essential financial and business support across multiple services.
What will you be doing?
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing accurate and timely financial advice, guidance and information to academies, maintained schools and internal teams.
- Overseeing the processing of invoices and payments, ensuring adherence to financial controls and authorisation procedures.
- Supporting the High Needs Funding Team Manager with the operational delivery of the service.
- Managing payment processes to ensure all agreed High Needs funding is allocated and paid accurately and within agreed timescales.
- Maintaining accurate and auditable financial records, supporting transparency and effective financial monitoring.
- Undertaking and overseeing transactional financial processes including purchase orders, journals, reconciliations and budget monitoring.
- Providing business and financial support across High Needs Funding, EHC and Educational Psychology services, including data management and maintaining accurate pupil placement information.
About you
- You will have strong organisational skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise workloads effectively in a busy environment.
- You will have experience of financial processes, systems and controls, ideally within a local authority or education setting.
- You will demonstrate excellent attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and compliance with financial regulations.
- You will be a confident communicator, able to respond to queries and provide guidance to a range of stakeholders.
- You will be a team player with a proactive, solution-focused approach and a strong customer service ethos.
- You will have experience using Microsoft Office applications (particularly Excel) and financial or data systems.
Training will be provided on our in-house systems and processes.
Our benefits
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Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
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