Finance Officer - Control x 2
London Borough of Hounslow
Date: 5 days ago
City: Hounslow
Contract type: Full time
About Us At Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
About The Role
We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual, to join the Transaction Processing and Controls Team, as a Finance Officer. Our team is busy and challenging; our work in turn supports colleagues across all the sectors of the Council.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
Our team is responsible for reconciling all income and expenditure within the Council’s bank account and providing accountancy support and assistance. Reporting directly to the Senior Finance Officer, your role will be varied and include:
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
Achieved or working towards an AAT or equivalent qualification with relevant work experience.
Essential For The Role
Basic DBS
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: or
Telephone: 0208 583 2581
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 30th June.
(please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)
About
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: or
Telephone: 0208 583 2581
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 30th June.
(please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
About The Role
We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual, to join the Transaction Processing and Controls Team, as a Finance Officer. Our team is busy and challenging; our work in turn supports colleagues across all the sectors of the Council.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
Our team is responsible for reconciling all income and expenditure within the Council’s bank account and providing accountancy support and assistance. Reporting directly to the Senior Finance Officer, your role will be varied and include:
- Assist in the preparation of statutory and non-statutory returns, including VAT and CIS.
- Perform a wide range of corporate reconciliations, including cash and payroll.
- Prepare and reconcile data files interfaced to the ledger.
- Update and review changes to financial and cash management systems.
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
- Sound understanding and experience in book-keeping, accounting and data entry.
- Demonstrate good literacy, numeracy and ICT skills relevant to the role.
- Competent in the use of information technology, in particular word and excel based applications and financial systems.
- Knowledge and understanding of financial processing and management, operating systems and internal control mechanisms.
- Achieved or working towards an AAT level 3/4 qualification.
Achieved or working towards an AAT or equivalent qualification with relevant work experience.
Essential For The Role
Basic DBS
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: or
Telephone: 0208 583 2581
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 30th June.
(please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)
About
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: or
Telephone: 0208 583 2581
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 30th June.
(please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)
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