South Lanarkshire Council
F&C 5740 - G2 Finance Assistant (607353)
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Finance Assistant - Strategy Team
Location
Council Headquarters, Hamilton
Hours
35 hours per week, Permanent
Work Pattern
- Monday - Thursday: 8.45am - 4.45pm
- Friday: 8.45am - 4.15pm
Salary
£29,326 - £38,779 per year
About the Role
South Lanarkshire Council is seeking a Finance Assistant to join the Strategy Team, focusing on supporting the Council’s capital programme and investment priorities. This role will support the Council’s strategic approach to capital investment, providing financial support across the capital programme and ensuring resources are planned, monitored, and managed effectively.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development, monitoring, and reporting of the Council’s capital programme.
- Work with finance colleagues and services across the Council.
- Support the preparation of capital budgets and forecasts.
- Monitor expenditure and funding.
- Assist with financial reporting.
- Contribute to the preparation of year-end accounts.
- Provide high-quality financial information, advice, and support to services for capital planning and investment decisions.
- Work with colleagues to identify financial issues, investigate variances, and ensure capital expenditure and associated funding are accurately recorded, monitored, and reported.
Requirements
The successful candidate should have experience working within a financial environment, ideally within the public sector, and should demonstrate appropriate technical knowledge and understanding of the finance function within a large organisation. Strong analytical and organisational skills are required, along with the ability to work effectively with financial information and communicate clearly with finance and non-finance colleagues.
Application Instructions
Please answer the following questions as part of your application submission, your answers should be uploaded under supporting documents:
- Please provide details of your experience of working within a financial environment, including any experience of budgeting, forecasting, capital expenditure, or financial monitoring.
- Please provide details of your experience of working collaboratively with others and explain how this would make you a suitable candidate for a role supporting the Council’s capital programme.
- Please provide an example of when you have used your initiative to improve a financial or business process. What did you change and what benefits did this achieve?
- Please provide an example of when you have experienced change in the workplace. How did you respond and adapt to the change?
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If you require to submit any further additional information to support your application (not a CV), please upload this under supporting documents.
How to Apply
Please apply online. All correspondence will be via your email address.
Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process will be required to assist the recruitment team, if need be, to ensure timely completion of recruitment checks. If recruitment checks are not completed within a reasonable timescale, you may automatically be withdrawn from this position.
Canvassing of Elected Members or employees of South Lanarkshire Council directly or indirectly in connection with any appointment within the Council shall disqualify the applicant.
Legislative Information
This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Scotland Act 2020. Preferred candidates will be required to complete a Level 1 disclosure check, prior to a formal offer of employment being made. Please refer to Disclosure Scotland for further information about the disclosure process and best practice.
Overseas Criminal Records Check
An Overseas Criminal Records Check is required where applicants born outside the UK (Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) or who have lived or worked outside the UK for a continuous period of 12 months in the past 10 years. Applicants are responsible for providing evidence of the Overseas Criminal Record Check, which must be translated into English and come from the police, judicial authority, government department, or home embassy of the country or countries concerned.
Equal Opportunities and Inclusion Statement
The Council is committed to fostering equality, diversity, and inclusion in its workforce. We welcome applications from all sectors of the community, including under-represented groups within our workforce. We are keen to receive applications from candidates who have a disability, who are from a care experienced background, who are from a black, Asian, or minority ethnic background, from a military service background, and from those who are new Scots.
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As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria as outlined in the job profile for this position.
As proud holders of the UK Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, the Council is also committed to supporting members of the armed forces community, including service leavers, veterans, reservists, and their families. Service leavers, their close family members, veterans, and reservists will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria as outlined in the job profile.
Benefits
As an employee of South Lanarkshire Council, you would also receive a wide range of benefits including:
- Enrolment in an award-winning local government pension scheme.
- Opportunity to increase the value of your pension pot by joining the Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme.
- Up to 33 days of annual leave.
- Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days).
- Occupational sick pay.
- Family-friendly policies, including flexible working and leave, maternity/paternity leave, and enhanced leave.
- Employee Discounts, including discounts at the cinema.
- Range of benefits to support you, such as the Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, and the Employee Assistance Program, which offers practical and emotional support.
About South Lanarkshire Council
South Lanarkshire Council is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton, has 16,000 employees, and a budget of almost £1bn. The large and varied geographical territory takes in rural and upland areas, market towns such as Lanark, Strathaven, and Carluke, and the urban burghs of Rutherglen, Cambuslang, and East Kilbride, which was Scotland's first new town.
Our Vision
Our vision for South Lanarkshire, as set out in our Economic Strategy, is to have one of the strongest and most dynamic economies in Scotland, where businesses, communities, and residents achieve their full potential and prosper.
We will achieve this through three key interrelated themes:
- People: Skills, learning, and employability.
- Place: Physical infrastructure and place.
- Business: Business development and growth.
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