The Council’s Finance and Commercial Services Department is responsible for maintaining financial control, and, ensuring value for money by providing financial and commercial advice to those teams delivering services.
The Finance and Commercial Services Department is currently made up of 400 staff comprising finance, procurement specialists and a substantial income and payments operation, billing around 255,000 households for council tax, 19,000 businesses for business rates, and awarding £170m of Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support to 51,000 households. The service is organised across 4 key areas: Accounting, Commercial Business Partnering, Procurement and Revenue and Benefits.
We have 3 vacant posts to recruit to across 3 different teams:
Assistant Internal Audit and Risk Manager (Grade 8) – full time permanent post
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join the Internal Audit Team within Finance and Commercial Services. You should have a relevant technical qualification (AAT) or part qualified/currently studying CCAB or CIA (or other relevant professional qualification), training or appropriate experience in an audit or financial environment. Evidence of continuing professional development, demonstrating an awareness of best practice developments and industry standards.
This post will be a lead on investigations and fraud monitoring. Note that training will be provide to a suitable candidate who does not currently have experience in this area.
You will be expected to adhere to the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards and will be required to undertake all aspects of an internal audit review, from scoping through to the discussion of findings and issue of final reports.
The scope of Internal Audit includes all the Council’s operations, resources, services and responsibilities. There is a requirement therefore to understand risk management processes as well as an understanding of the risk-based auditing approach and techniques. The Service uses the Galileo system to record its work, and knowledge of this system would be an advantage.
You will conduct grant sign-off work across a wide range of services, adhering to funder deadlines. Furthermore, conducting added value pieces of Internal Audit Business Partnering work which may involve reviewing and advising on new systems, processes or assessing value for money.
You will potentially be responsible for the training and supervision of graduate trainees, Interns and Internal Auditors (Grade 6).
You will be required to work with colleagues at all levels within the organisation to provide assurances on the control framework, and where required make recommendations to contribute to service improvements.
We require good analytical abilities and high levels of numeracy and literacy.
You will be required to build and maintain collaborative and positive relationships which build credibility and trust with managers, internal and external customers and stakeholders.
1 x Assistant Finance Manager – Service Accounting Team (Grade 8 – full time permanent post)
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the Service Accounting team within Finance and Commercial Services at Sheffield City Council.
The Accounting team is responsible for the Council’s in year financial reporting, budget monitoring, training, and support. We provide high quality, timely and accurate financial reporting inside and outside of the Council and professional insight into financial results to ensure delivery of sustainable services through timely and effective financial control. We are here to support Directorates to use financial information and financial systems in the most effective way to run their services and achieve financial targets.
You will be an integral part of the monthly accounting cycle and production of financial information. You will require excellent ICT, organisational and interpersonal skills in order to build long-term trusting relationships with your customers. You will need to be able to prioritise workloads in order to meet strict timetables and delegate tasks where appropriate. You will have direct line management responsibilities, which include providing day to day support, 1:1s, training, feedback, and development.
A continuous improvement mindset is essential in our service accounting teams. We need to challenge processes and strive for optimal efficiency by eliminating waste to achieve best value for the council. We want our team to continually drive improvements to offer the best service possible and deliver high quality financial information.
This particular role provides financial advice and support to Sheffield City Council Strategic Support Services.
You should be a minimum part qualified/currently studying CCAB or relevant equivalent or have extensive experience in a financial environment demonstrating Continued Professional Development at a similar level.
The Council embraces flexible working arrangements and has a hybrid working approach.
1 X Assistant Internal Audit and Risk Manager (Grade 8) – full time permanent post
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join the Internal Audit Team within Finance and Commercial Services. You should have a relevant technical qualification (AAT) or part qualified/currently studying CCAB or CIA (or other relevant professional qualification), training or appropriate experience in an audit or financial environment. Evidence of continuing professional development, demonstrating an awareness of best practice developments and industry standards.
This post will be a lead on investigations and fraud monitoring. Note that training will be provide to a suitable candidate who does not currently have experience in this area.
You will be expected to adhere to the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards and will be required to undertake all aspects of an internal audit review, from scoping through to the discussion of findings and issue of final reports.
The scope of Internal Audit includes all the Council’s operations, resources, services and responsibilities. There is a requirement therefore to understand risk management processes as well as an understanding of the risk-based auditing approach and techniques. The Service uses the Galileo system to record its work, and knowledge of this system would be an advantage.
You will conduct grant sign-off work across a wide range of services, adhering to funder deadlines. Furthermore, conducting added value pieces of Internal Audit Business Partnering work which may involve reviewing and advising on new systems, processes or assessing value for money.
You will potentially be responsible for the training and supervision of graduate trainees, Interns and Internal Auditors (Grade 6).
You will be required to work with colleagues at all levels within the organisation to provide assurances on the control framework, and where required make recommendations to contribute to service improvements.
We require good analytical abilities and high levels of numeracy and literacy.
You will be required to build and maintain collaborative and positive relationships which build credibility and trust with managers, internal and external customers and stakeholders.
We require excellent ICT skills (including word, excel and PowerPoint), organisational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks.
The Council embraces flexible working arrangements and has a hybrid working approach.
1 X Assistant Finance Manager – External Funding (Grade 8) – FTE permanent post
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the External Funding team within Finance and Commercial Services. You should have a relevant technical qualification for the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) or either be part qualified/currently studying to Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) level (or other relevant professional qualification) or have appropriate experience in a financial environment with evidence of continuing professional development.
This post will assist the External Funding team in the management of a range of complex grants that cut across all council departments including the financial management and control of these grants ensuring compliance with funder requirements, SCC financial processes and CIPFA Accounting Standards.
The post will support a range of non-finance managers across a range of service areas in the financial management/control of their grants providing advice and guidance on key financial management processes and grant terms and conditions.
The postholder will attend meetings and provide financial advice and guidance and to: new grant bids, project working groups, senior management, grant funders, service managers and other finance teams to ensure both the correct application of and accounting for grant funding.
The postholder will be responsible for the financial and accounting requirements for individual grants (capital and revenue) including grant claims, financial returns, balance sheet reconciliations, year-end accounts closure, updating grant databases, producing management information.
The postholder will need the ability to write and contribute to formal Officer Decision reports on grants and work flexibly to meet specific financial deadlines with the ability to use their own initiative to manage and prioritise competing workloads and funder deadlines.
Closing date 10pm Sunday 30th July
It is currently anticipated that interviews for all of the posts will take place in the week commencing 21t August 2023
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.