Job Introduction
Looking to build your finance career in a role where you can make a real difference?
Join Staffordshire County Council—an organisation recognised for strong financial management, forward planning, and delivering high-quality services to our communities.
We’re looking for a motivated and detail-focused finance professional to support our financial reporting and day-to-day accounting activities. Working as part of a supportive finance team, you’ll assist the Accountant and other finance colleagues to help ensure our financial information and transactions are accurate, timely, and reliable.
This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills, gain exposure to a wide range of finance activities, and play an important part in supporting sound financial decision-making across the organisation.
Based in Stafford with flexible hybrid working, this role offers the chance to grow your career while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Main Responsibility
In this role you'll:
- Process supplier invoices, ensuring accurate coding, approval, and contract value compliance.
- Raise invoices promptly for schools, partner organisations, and other local authorities.
- Monitor budgets regularly, identifying variances and supporting accurate financial reporting.
- Support forecasting activities to help services manage spending and future commitments.
- Assist with annual budget setting through data preparation and financial analysis.
- Process payments to schools accurately, ensuring compliance with agreed funding arrangements.
- Respond to supplier and stakeholder queries professionally, resolving issues in a timely manner.
- Prepare and process journals, virements, accruals, and prepayments within financial systems.
- Support year-end accounting activities, including reconciliations and closure of accounts processes.
- Maintain and update pupil database records to support accurate funding and reporting.
The Ideal Candidate
For this role it's essential you'll:
- Be a AAT Member or have relevant experience
- Have good numeracy and literacy skills.
- Have experience working in a financial services environment.
- Be able to work flexibly and creatively to meet changing priorities.
- Demonstrate effective use of spreadsheets and word processing skills.
- Have the ability to support budget monitoring and forecasting activities, with a basic understanding of variances and financial reporting
Interviews will be held during the week starting July 6th 2026
Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Sam Parton Finance Business Partner sam.parton@staffordshire.gov.uk or Helen Bradley Accountant helen.bradley@staffordshire.gov.uk
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role. Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes, detailed below.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
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