Finance Technician; G5
Job in
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2, England, UK
Listing for:
Nations Recruitment
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-02-17
Job specializations:
-
Finance & Banking
Financial Manager, Financial Analyst, Financial Reporting, Financial Compliance
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 14 GBP Hourly
GBP
14.00
HOUR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Finance Technician (G5)
Job Category: Financial
Location: 36 Orchard Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN11XX
, Lincolnshire County Council
Hours Per Week: 37
Start Date: Immediate Start
Salary: £14.00
Work schedule:
2 days office, 3 days home. Office is in Lincoln, parking can be limited.
Main Duties
Support senior finance staff to accurately monitor revenue and capital budget preparation, budget monitoring and closure of the final accounts.Work with low‑risk budget managers and support senior finance staff to provide financial intelligence underpinning the advice and guidance to budget managers. Assist in the delivery of effective financial planning and financial management in relation to all revenue and capital budgets.Provide customers and colleagues with the provision of accurate and effective financial information including the implications of low‑risk service development proposals and statutory changes.Look to continuously improve services, identifying where possible, value for money savings and managing within allocated budgets.Structure financial data relating to key income and expenditure drivers enabling problems to be solved.Work with senior staff to provide financial intelligence underpinning budget manager advice and guidance.Responsible for maintaining accounts, verifying and posting approved journals and budget virements.Assist the budget setting process structure and monitor financial data relating to key income and expenditure drivers for low-risk budgets.Work within a sound financial control environment including structured, efficient, and compliant financial systems.Review Budget Holder outturn projections ensuring, in particular, that budgets are realistic, resources have been allocated promptly and outturn projections look reasonable in relation to spending to date.Assisting with the development of systems, processes and reports to help improve the accuracy of outturn projections, particularly for large, more volatile and higher risk budgets.Monitoring the delivery of efficiency savings throughout the year and reporting therein.Assisting Budget Managers with the evaluation of the value for money provided by services.Assisting Budget Holders and Senior Managers in the development of detailed plans for use of grants and monitoring delivery of those plans, ensuring that grants are fully utilised.Supporting Budget and Spend Managers on the closure of accounts process adjusting the accounts through budget virements and journals to ensure that the Council's financial statements are accurate.To obtain information to enable FOI requests to be answered within the nationally set 20 day response time.To assist with the bank account reconciliation for Lincolnshire County Council.Assist the Council's statutory obligations including assisting with the completion of statutory returns and where appropriate any national and local performance indicators.As an employee, create a positive image of the County Council.Deliver good customer service, incorporating the Council's equality and diversity objectives and supporting the council to achieve best practice in all it delivers.Remain up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation, organisational procedures, policies and professional codes of conduct in order to uphold standards of best practice.To support the delivery of training and material for budget holders, Senior Managers, and for Financial Strategy, etc.To undertake training in business-critical service areas to provide cover during peaks in service demand and periods of leave. This includes bank reconciliation cover.#J-18808-Ljbffr
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