Business Support Officer

Applefields School; Northallerton; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Applefields School in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, is hiring a Finance Administrator on a 37-hour full-time fixed-term contract until 31 March 2027. The role involves handling invoices, data entry on budget spreadsheets, and supporting service teams.

You'll need good Excel skills, strong organisation, the ability to work to deadlines, and discretion with confidential information (GDPR). The post offers hybrid working with occasional travel between offices and a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Good use of Microsoft Excel and data handling
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Ability to work with confidential information and meet deadlines

Responsibilities

• Payment of invoices to providers
• Raising invoices to clients for care received
• Data input including budgetary spreadsheets

Skills

Excel

Organisational skills

Time management

Initiative

GDPR

Communication

Job description

Grade: E
Contract Type: Fixed Term contract until 31st March 2027

Hours: 37 hours per week

Location:Northallerton, North Yorkshire

Are you someone who enjoys working with figures and spreadsheets?Are you a great communicator who can think on their feet and problem solve?Are you looking for a full-time role with a fixed term contract for 6 months where you can work within our core hours Monday – Friday?

Our office provides a welcoming working environment, and we offer flexible hybrid working, where our home working is supported with technology to make it seamless.Importantly, we are keen to ensure we support your individual training and development needs.Full training will be provided for the role using online training and peer to peer support.

Please note that this post is currently based in Northallerton but there is also a possibility of working from our Harrogate office.

The role of the team is to provide a high standard of financial administrative support to a range of service teams.

The job description provides a wide range of admin tasks that may not be relevant to this specific role, duties will include:

• Payment of invoices to providers
• Raising of invoices to clients for care received
• Data input including adding information to budgetary spread sheets.

The skills you will need to demonstrate for this role are:

• Good use of computer packages particularly Microsoft Excel
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Using your own initiative
• Ability to work to deadlines
• The ability to deal with confidential information and sensitive issues (GDPR)
• The ability to work confidently and effectively with people across the organisation

Working for us

You will be surrounded by a supportive, established team of professionals who will help you grow and develop within this role.As a North Yorkshire Council employee, you will have access to some great benefits via our everybody benefit’s scheme such as shopping discounts, home technology and green car salary sacrifice schemes, financial wellbeing and health assured and our employee assistance programme to assist with your health and wellbeing.You will also have access to our local government pension scheme, a generous plan for your retirement with the option to increase your monthly contribution if you wish.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality ofopportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.