Overview
Our Benefits
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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
About us
We’re a new council, following one of the largest shake-ups in local government
reform in recent history. As a new authority, we’re embarking on an exciting journey
to deliver exceptional services for our residents, customers and
communities.
Our vision at West Northamptonshire Council 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.
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.
When potential is unlocked, talent thrives.
Choose a career that offers you a true sense of achievement, fills you with pride and
challenges you in a positive way, every day.
West Northants Council, where careers thrive.
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