Senior Business Support Officer

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The Organisational Development, Strategy & Governance team provides Support Services to Facilities Management and Housing Repairs

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Senior Business Support Officer to support Facilities Management and Housing Repairs in delivering transactional activities.

The role will be mainly focussed on processing financial transactions to support the payment of subcontractor invoices and stock and material supplies. It will also include support to a range of other transactional activities across the team.

The successful candidate will be highly organised, proactive and a self-starter, with a sound understanding of business and financial processes and must be able to demonstrate attention to detail.

You will need to be competent in the use of IT packages (Office, Outlook, Teams etc). Experience in using finance systems and understanding purchase ledger processes is preferable but training will be given.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.