Finance Officer

TN United Kingdom; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Finance Officer to join their dynamic team in Sheffield. This fast-paced role offers the opportunity to support Management Accountants and engage in critical financial operations. You will be responsible for reviewing budgets, conducting year-end duties, and providing key financial insights. The organisation is committed to professional development and offers outstanding benefits, including a generous pension scheme and family-friendly policies. If you are driven and ready to make a difference in a supportive environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Outstanding pension contribution

Enhanced annual leave allowance

Blue light discount card

Family-friendly policies

Wellbeing and welfare services

Qualifications

• Experience in a financial environment with budgetary control.
• Ability to analyse and interpret financial information.

Responsibilities

• Support Management Accountants with financial queries.
• Review revenue and capital budgets per department timelines.
• Conduct year-end duties and reconciliations of force assets.

Skills

Budgetary Control

Financial Analysis

Year End Procedures

Computerised Financial Systems

Education

AAT Qualification

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• Fast-paced and varied role as the organisation embarks on significant change
• Opportunity to develop and gain valuable operational finance experience

About Our Client

Working for South Yorkshire Police doesn't have to mean patrolling the streets; our police staff work side by side with uniformed officers. A strong team of professional support staff work behind the scenes in many different areas of our organisation, including finance. We need skilled people, like you, to join our police family to keep our South Yorkshire communities safe. We have an annual budget in excess of £300 million and employ over 3,000 police officers and 2,200 support staff. South Yorkshire Police are committed to attracting, selecting, hiring, retaining and developing a diverse and professional workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve, enabling us to meet and exceed our corporate finance goals and objectives. Like most organisations, South Yorkshire Police is transforming the way we deliver our services and run the organisation to meet ever more demanding challenges. We have a Medium-Term Resource Strategy underpinned by a draft recovery plan to help achieve our mission. The Finance department is very much at the centre of delivering this strategy working collaboratively with all senior leaders across the organisation and our external partners. Therefore, as part of this we are looking for talented individuals who are experienced finance professionals, resilient and driven to achieve change. For more information about South Yorkshire Police careers and to see what other opportunities they are recruiting, please visit the link here -

Job Description

In a fast-paced and varied Finance Officer role based in Sheffield, you will primarily support the Management Accountants with providing key information and be a main point of contact for first-line financial queries. Additional responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing all revenue, capital and grant budgets in alignment with the department timescales, with support and direction from the Management Accountants.
• Identify and query all revenue and grant, non-pay, current month and year-to-date variances.
• Calculate all accruals, prepayments, collaboration adjustments and external recharges and ensure they are input to the ledger on a monthly and year-end basis.
• Conduct year-end duties in accordance with the year-end timetable, ensuring that all contributing stakeholders are aware of their obligations.
• Reconciliations of all force assets, including properties, vehicles, all vehicle fleet stocks and items of equipment at regular intervals throughout the financial year.
• Complete month end tasks including cancelling / closing orders, creating code combinations, uninvoiced receipts reports and run receipt accruals.

The Successful Applicant

For this Finance Officer position, we're looking for:

• Ideally qualified with or studying towards AAT
• Experience of working in a financial environment including budgetary control and year end procedures
• Ability to analyse, critically evaluate and interpret financial information
• Experience of using a computerised financial information system in a medium to large organisation

What's on Offer

Outstanding pension contribution from the Local Government Pension Scheme + Enhanced AL allowance + Blue light discount card + Family-friendly policies + Wellbeing and welfare services + Hybrid working. Applications close on Monday 28th April; however, we encourage early submissions as we may close the application process sooner if we receive a high volume of interest.