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🌶 Saturday 25th September
🌶 1pm-7pm – High Street / Town Centre
🌶 During the day you may like to explore other parts of the town and support other local businesses
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Job Vacancy – Finance Officer

Westbury Town Council, The Laverton, Bratton Road, Westbury, BA13 3EN

We require an experienced and enthusiastic Finance Officer to join our busy team. Your role will be to deliver financial support to the council, ensuring that we are compliant and transparent in all that we do as well as contributing to the delivery of services and facilities in Westbury. This is a challenging and diverse role that requires flexibility and a high level of accuracy. You will need to be comfortable juggling tasks and priorities and working towards agreed council and personal objectives.

There is a requirement for the postholder to arrange, attend and minute occasional evening meetings and to assist with town council events some of which take place at evenings and weekends and may involve some manual handling. There may also an element of homeworking involved.

Summary of Key Responsibilities:

• To operate and maintain both the Purchase Ledger and Sales Ledger.
• To resolve any invoice queries and investigate budget variances.
• To produce reports and maintain accurate budget records for specific projects.
• To assist with project work by providing financial or statistical data or projected costings as required.
• To liaise with clients and customers regarding unpaid invoices.
• To prepare monthly petty cash claims and arrange banking.
• To work within the guidelines set by Financial Regulations, meet the requirements of auditors and ensure transparency.
• To prepare for and liaise with the Internal Auditor during visits.
• To be responsible for maintaining the Fixed Asset Register.
• General administrative support to the council including dealing with public enquiries and complaints.

The person we are looking for will be/have:

• A suitable accounting qualification or able to demonstrate a minimum of 3 years work experience in an accounting role.
• Ability to interpret financial reports preferably within a local government setting.
• IT literate and able to demonstrate experience of using accounting software.
• Organised and motivated with excellent time management skills.
• A confident and natural communicator.
• Flexible and have the ability to work at pace.
• Team player with the ability to work alone.

Full details of all the duties of this role and the personal attributes of prospective candidates, please refer to the job description and personal specification.

Salary: Local Government Scale LC1 SCP 13 – 17 £22,627 - £24,491 with an attractive pension scheme and holiday allowance.

Hours: 37 per week. Flexible working will be required to cover any out of hours meetings and evening or weekend events.

Closing Date: Friday 15th October 2021.

Interviews will be held week commencing 8th November 2021.

An Application Form and Job Description is available online at www.westburytowncouncil.gov.uk/dept/job-vacancies

Or contact Westbury Town Council
Tel: 01373 822232 or email info@westburytowncouncil.gov.uk

Westbury Town Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief.