Business Officer

Cambridgeshire County Council; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 36,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks annual leave

Pension contributions

Volunteer hours

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking a Business Officer to join the Statutory Assessment Finance Team in Huntingdon. The role focuses on administering funding, budgets and reports for EHCPs, with responsibilities spanning data input, query handling, and data collation.

The team manages High Needs Block funding and related budgets, ensuring accurate administration and timely reporting. The successful candidate will work with ERP Gold and other financial systems.

Qualifications

• Experience with budgetary control and financial reporting.
• Proficiency with Excel and financial systems.
• Strong data entry and reconciliation skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate budget commitment records using Excel and financial systems.
• Process and administer High Needs Block funding payments.
• Reconcile monthly budget reports in ERP Gold and ensure GL accuracy.
• Support production of monthly financial reports for finance partners and senior management.
• Input, maintain and validate financial/service data across systems.
• Answer inquiries and direct queries as needed.

Skills

Budgeting

Excel

Data entry

Report writing

Tools

ERP Gold

Job description

Business Officer

Company: Cambridgeshire County Council Salary: £27,274 to £29,071 a year Hours: Full-time Location: Huntingdon, PE29 3AD Job type: Permanent

Summary

We are looking for an organised and detail-oriented individual to join the Statutory Assessment Finance Team. The team provides financial support to the Statutory Assessment Service, which is responsible for the assessment, monitoring and review of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

The team manages High Needs Block funding, including EHCP top-up funding and other financial support specified within EHCPs. As part of this role, you will help ensure the accurate administration, monitoring and reporting of funding commitments and budgets that support children and young people across the county.

The role involves inputting data into computer systems, dealing with computer documents, answering queries, and supporting colleagues with tasks such as collating data and producing reports.

Our benefits

• Buy up to


• 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme


• Take your bank holidays


• flexibly to better suit


• your personal circumstances


• Make


• Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings


• Access to


• development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support


• your personal and professional growth


• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a


• positive impact on our community during your normal working day


• Access to


• Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff


• equality, diversity and inclusion network


• Opportunities to nominate and receive


• Employee Recognition Awards


• An


• Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online


• discounts as well as our


• Car Lease


• Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintaining accurate budget commitment records using Excel and other financial systems.


• Processing and administering High Needs Block funding payments.


• Reconciling monthly budget reports within ERP Gold and ensuring general ledger information is accurate and up to date.


• Supporting the production of monthly financial reports for finance business partners and senior management.


• Inputting, maintaining and validating financial and service data across a range of computer systems.


• Answering enquiries, taking messages and directing queries appropriately.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to be self-motivated, organised and flexible, with the ability to manage your own workload, prioritise and forward plan. You will have excellent interpersonal skills combined with the ability to represent the service in a positive and professional manner, including communicating with a wide range of internal and external customers.

You must be reliable, have a polite manner and a friendly approach to help you get on with people at all levels. You must be keen to learn and work to agreed targets. You will need to be a good team worker but also have the ability to work on your own initiative when required and be able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines. You must have strong problem solving skills and the ability to take a hands‑on role and work independently. The successful candidate will also have proven experience & understanding of working with GDPR regulations.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self‑organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

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