ASC Finance Administrative Assistant

Portsmouth City Council; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth City Council is seeking an ASC Finance Administrative Assistant to provide essential financial administrative support within the ASC Care Purchasing and ASC Payments teams. You will record care package line items, manage provider payments, and collate performance statistics daily.

Based at the Civic Offices with potential hybrid options after training, you will work in a busy office, handling high volumes of emails and ensuring accuracy in invoicing and payment processes.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a busy finance or administrative environment.
• Excellent attention to detail and numeracy skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and data entry.
• Ability to work flexibly, manage high volumes of email and prioritise workload.

Responsibilities

• Record care package line items accurately and promptly.
• Ensure accurate and timely provider payments and mailbox management.
• Collate team performance statistics for reporting.
• Support the ASC Finance and Payments Teams in daily administrative tasks.

Skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Written communication

Numeracy

Analytical skills

Ability to work flexibly

Team collaboration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Your new role

This is a varied and rewarding role where you will provide administrative support across the ASC Care Purchasing Team and ASC Payments Team daily. You will be responsible for the accurate and timely recording of care package line items, accurate and timely provider payments, mailbox management and collation of team performance statistics.

The role will involve working within a busy, fast paced team, so experience of working in a busy office environment is essential to this role. With a high volume of email's, attention to detail is critical to ensure financial commitments and system set up is accurate to enable correct invoicing and payment functions.

As an ASC Finance Administrative Assistant, you'll play a key role in keeping our financial processes running smoothly.

This role will be solely based at the Civic Offices 5 days per week while you learn and develop the skills required. Once you're fully competent in all aspects of the role, the option of hybrid working could be explored - balancing flexibility with the needs of the service.

Who is the person summary:

With previous experience of working in a busy finance or administrative environment, you will have an understanding of Adult Social Care Services and commissioning practice. You will have excellent time management and written communication skills including letter writing and note taking. With experience of using Microsoft Office applications, you will have good analytical skills and a high standard of numeracy and literacy. The ability to work flexibly, deal with external providers, use your initiative and prioritise your workload is required as well as being able to work as part of a team or on your own. Attention to detail is essential and great communication skills which make a real difference to the people we support

For full details, please review 'who is the person' on the job profile below attached.

About Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours .

Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)

As part of Local Government Reorganisation, current plans will see Portsmouth City Council combine with the district and borough councils of Fareham, Gosport and Havant and parts of East Hampshire and Winchester district councils to form a new, larger unitary authority for south east Hampshire.

We are working towards an implementation date of 1st April 2028, known as vesting day, subject to Parliamentary approval. Until then, we remain focused on maintaining continuity, supporting our workforce, and continuing to deliver excellent services to our residents throughout the transition to the new unitary authority.

This is an exciting time to join us, offering the opportunity to contribute to organisational transformation, develop your career, and help shape future services for our communities.

More information about Local Government Reorganisation can be found on our website: https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-council/devolution-and-lgr/

Additional Information

Please ensure that you read the job profile for full details on the post. We offer hybrid working with the expectation to attend the office minimum 2 days a week this remains flexible, depending on the role and subject to business needs. For this role you will be solely based at the Civic Offices 5 days per week while you learn and develop the skills required. Please ensure you can fulfil this prior to submitting your application

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position.

Interview date: w/c 21 September 2026.

Our recruitment process

Full information about our recruitment process can be found on our support for applicants' page: Support for applicants - Careers portal

You must demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person'points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.If you apply without a detailed personal statement, it is unlikely that you will be successful.

We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our career's portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact [e-mail] or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616 800.