Support Officer, Highland-wide - HGH22000

Highland Council; Virginia (MN); Sur place; GBP 37 000 - 41 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Highland Council is seeking a Support Officer to analyse and monitor performance, ensuring compliance with statutory duties while driving improvements in service delivery. The role covers budget support, financial returns, and reconciliation across multiple budgets, including welfare benefits and local taxation contexts.

You will work with management and audit teams to uphold financial regulations, prepare plans, and contribute to strategic budgeting processes.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent accountancy qualification.
• Demonstrate 5 years' experience with budgets and financial resources in welfare benefit/local government taxation.
• Ability to analyse performance and ensure service compliance with statutory duties.

Responsabilités

• Analyse and monitor performance information to ensure service compliance with statutory duties and adequacy of service performance against targets and statutory indicators.
• Analyse raw performance data to identify where efficiencies and improvements can be made.
• Develop service plans and strategy to improve performance while meeting policy and legislative requirements.
• Support the budget setting process for all Revs & BS budgets, including compiling the budget, setting estimates, analysing income and expenditure and identifying opportunities.
• Analyse data and perform complex calculations for financial returns and claims, including DWP subsidy claim.
• Reconcile all related budgets, including Revs & BS budget, CTAX,NDR,HB, DHP, SWF, collections on behalf of BID's and Scottish Water, and payments for Sheriff Officer contract.
• Work with management team, internal and external audit to ensure compliance with financial regulations, legislative and policy requirements and assurance of accuracy and quality.

Connaissances

Budget management

Financial analysis

Performance reporting

Formation

Degree-level education or accounting qualification

Description du poste

Job Description

Post Title: Support Officer
Location: Highland-wide
Hours: 35 hours per week
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £36,636 - £40,968 p.a.
Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.

Contact Person: Murdina Boyd Tel: [phone]

Job Purpose:

• Analyse and monitor performance information to ensure service compliance with statutory duties and adequacy of service performance against targets and statutory indicators.
• Analyse raw performance data to understand and identify where and how efficiencies and improvements can be made.
• Develop service plans and strategy to improve performance whilst still meeting policy and legislative requirements
• Use specialist technical knowledge to support the budget setting process for all Revs & BS budgets, including compiling the budget, setting estimates, analysing and monitoring income and expenditure and identifying opportunities
• Use specialist technical knowledge to analyse data and perform complex calculations as required before completion of all appropriate financial returns and claims, including DWP subsidy claim
• Reconciliation of all related budgets, including Revs & BS budget, CTAX,NDR,HB, DHP, SWF, collections on behalf of BID's and Scottish Water, and payments in respect of the Sheriff Officer contract.
• Work with management team, internal and external audit to ensure compliance with financial regulations, legislative and policy requirements and assurance of accuracy and quality.

The Highland Council understands that diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, and being fair and inclusive. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in our workforce.

As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria requirements for the post.

Shortlisted applicants will normally be contacted by email, unless otherwise stated. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

Requirements

Educated to degree level or equivalent accountancy qualification, able to demonstrate 5 years relevant experience and expertise in relation to budgets and financial resources within a welfare benefit and local government taxation environment.