F&C - G2 Finance Assistant

ACTUAL CLOSING DATE:
Applications must be received by 18 October 2026 at 11:55PM

Please ensure that you read the full advert text and do not submit a CV, as these will be disregarded as they do not form part of SLC application process. If you require to submit additional information to support your application, please upload this under supporting documents.

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Location: Council Headquarters, Hamilton
Hours: 35 hours per week, Permanent
Work Pattern: Monday - Thursday 8.45am - 4.45pm, Friday 8.45am - 4.15pm
Salary: £29,326 - £38,779 per year

South Lanarkshire Council are looking for a Finance Assistant to join the Strategy Team, with a specific focus on supporting the Council’s capital programme and investment priorities. This post will support the Council’s strategic approach to capital investment, providing financial support across the capital programme and helping to ensure that resources are planned, monitored and managed effectively.

You will contribute to the development, monitoring and reporting of the Council’s capital programme, working with finance colleagues and services across the Council. This will include supporting the preparation of capital budgets and forecasts, monitoring expenditure and funding, assisting with financial reporting, and contributing to the preparation of year-end accounts.

A key part of the role will be providing high-quality financial information, advice and support to services to assist with capital planning and investment decisions. You will work with colleagues to identify financial issues, investigate variances and ensure that capital expenditure and associated funding are accurately recorded, monitored and reported.

The successful candidate should have experience of working within a financial environment, ideally within the public sector, and be able to demonstrate appropriate technical knowledge and an understanding of the finance function within a large organisation. You should have strong analytical and organisational skills, with the ability to work effectively with financial information and communicate clearly with finance and non-finance colleagues.

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Please answer the following questions as part of your application submission, your answers should be uploaded under supporting documents

• Please provide details of your experience of working within a financial environment, including any experience of budgeting, forecasting, capital expenditure or financial monitoring.
• Please provide details of your experience of working collaboratively with others and explain how this would make you a suitable candidate for a role supporting the Council’s capital programme.
• Please provide an example of when you have used your initiative to improve a financial or business process. What did you change and what benefits did this achieve?
• Please provide an example of when you have experienced change in the workplace. How did you respond and adapt to the change?

If you require to submit any further additional information to support your application (not a CV), please upload this under supporting documents.

Please Apply online - All correspondence will be via your email address

Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process will be required to assist the recruitment team, if need be, to ensure timely completion of recruitment checks. If recruitment checks are not completed within a reasonable timescale, you may automatically be withdrawn from this position.

Canvassing of Elected Members or employees of South Lanarkshire's Council directly or indirectly in connection with any appointment within the Council shall disqualify the applicant.

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