Finance, Monitoring and Quality Assurance Officer

Role Responsibility

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Fair Access Team within the Children, Young People, and Education Directorate,.

We are seeking to appoint a Finance Monitoring and Quality Assurance officer to provide comprehensive support to the Head of Fair Access and Lead Service Managers in the planning and monitoring of the service’s budgets. Supporting the service to identify, plan, implement and maintain cost saving projects and to reinforce and maintain the integrity of the budget.

The Fair Access team are responsible for the County processes including Co-ordinated Admissions, In Year Admissions, Access to Education and Home to School Transport.

To be considered for this role, you should have strong knowledge of IT, excellent communication and listening skills, with a fluency in English and understand the importance of maintaining a high level of accuracy and confidentiality. You will need demonstrable technical skills and have experience of dealing with financial planning and monitoring.

You should also have a desire to provide excellent customer service, be self motivated, and able to demonstrate an ability to work under pressure, as consistently meeting deadlines is essential.

We are looking for a positive person, with a ‘can-do’ approach who can rise to the pressures within the Fair Access team, providing a customer focused service, which exceeds their expectations.

If this describes you, then we want to hear from you. Please apply before (closing date) to be considered.   

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Contact Details

For further information on this role please contact Krystle Davies, krystle.davies@kent.gov.uk 03000 412560

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.