About the role
This pivotal role supports the monthly Education payments cycle, ensuring smooth panel operations, accurate documentation, and timely payments. You’ll be central to maintaining financial compliance and supporting education providers with funding queries and processes.
What will you be doing?
- Coordinating monthly High Needs funding panel, including setup, documentation, and outcome communications.
- Providing specialist financial support to education providers, including funding calculations and payment processing.
- Managing financial records and forecasts for alternative provision placements.
- Handling complex funding queries with professionalism and sensitivity.
- Maintaining accurate data within our payment systems to support financial and management reporting.
- Using systems to raise purchase orders and process invoices.
- Enhancing productivity and data security through effective use of Office 365 and internal systems.
About you
Are you highly organised, detail-oriented, and passionate about supporting education funding processes? We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Co-ordinator & Administrator to join our Education Payments Team on a 12-month maternity cover contract.
- Strong administrative and financial skills
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational abilities
- Ability to communicate effectively and handle sensitive queries
- Experience with financial systems and Microsoft Office tools
- A proactive approach to problem-solving and process improvement
Our benefits
You can also see our full list of employee benefits on our careers site here: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council.
About us
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.
Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.
Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what its like to work at West Northants Council.
We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner
The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.
If you need additional support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, including needing the job description in another format or language, please email careers@westnorthants.gov.uk for support.
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