Business Support Officer

WMJobs; Warwick; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Supportive managers

Refer a Friend package

Generous pension and annual leave

Job summary

Warwickshire County Council is seeking a Business Support Officer to join Business Support Team 8 (Finance Hub). You will provide flexible and responsive admin support to Finance and frontline children's services, handling invoice processing, purchase orders, and payment trackers.

You will need strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and be able to work in a fast-paced environment, with basic data analysis and Excel experience.

Qualifications

• Good organisational skills with attention to detail and ability to problem solve.
• Experience with data analysis, data manipulation and basic financial queries.
• Experience of Excel and payment systems would be desirable.

Responsibilities

• Undertake general administration duties, data analysis & manipulation, and respond to queries.
• Support frontline services and teams with financial enquir ies, invoices and PO processing.
• Maintain and update payment trackers and work in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Data manipulation

Payment systems

Tools

Data management systems

IT systems

Job description

About Us And The Role

Business Support Team 8 (Finance Hub), have an exciting position available. Within this role, you will be supporting Social Care Finance Business Support team working to provide: invoice processing, purchase orders, setting financial packages, and support the children's teams with basic financial enquiries. We work with colleagues to provide positive outcomes, maintain and update payment trackers, working together across Warwickshire. Warwickshire put children at the heart of everything we do. We work with children and families restoratively, building strong relationships and connections to help families fine long last solutions.

Business Support Officer

Business Support contributes to the efficient running of the team and the achievement of the County Council vision to make Warwickshire the best it can be, sustainable now and for future generations. You will work in a team to provide effective, flexible and responsive Business Support to one of the Council’s Services, with the ability to support other teams as and when required. It is a fast paced, energetic and exciting area to work in, where you will be part of a close team. You will work proactively, looking for new ways of working, contributing to the outcomes of the services that you are supporting as well as the outcomes of the Business Support Service. We are looking for someone who has good organisational skills, is able to problem solve and use their own initiative, a great attention to detail with excellent communication skills. As part of this role you would be required to undertake general administration duties, data analysis & manipulation, responding to queries, assisting & supporting frontline services.

• An ability to work in a fast-paced, busy environment, and to manage changes at short notice.
• Good IT skills with a knowledge of systems for data management.
• Experience of Excel and payment systems would be desirable.

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.

Our Offer to you includes:

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply.

Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make:

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them! At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best. Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund. The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

Additional Information

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the.

Contact

To discuss the role please contact Christopher Burbidge- [e-mail]

Closing Date

24th August 2026

Interview Date

26th August 2026

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more