Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for a Finance Assistant to join the Children’s Commissioning Finance Team on a permanent basis. Join our dedicated team in Children’s Commissioning, where your financial expertise will directly contribute to shaping the future of children’s services. In this vital role, you will have the unique opportunity to blend your financial acumen with a passion for social impact, ensuring that every decision and investment made supports the wellbeing and development of children in our community.Be part of a mission-driven organization where your work not only drives economic efficiency but also makes a lasting difference in young lives.This role is a hybrid role working from home and from our office in New Shire Hall in Alconbury.For an informal chat about the role, please contact Children’s Commissioning Finance Manager, Manju Mathew at manju.mathew@cambridgeshire.gov.uk. What will you be doing? You will provide effective and accurate payment of c£39 million of Children’s Commissioning transactions, ensuring that Providers are accurately paid and agencies invoiced. You will assist with the monitoring of budgets in accordance with Council financial processes, systems and instructions and complete regular integrity checks and reconciliations to ensure that all payments made are correct.If you are a highly motivated, proactive, organised and innovative finance professional with a proven track record of delivery, apply today! About you You will have previous experience within finance and will have previously worked with finance systems and kept accurate financial records. You will have knowledge of payment systems, ERP and ideally previous exposure to CONTROCC .You will have good IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Excel and will have good interpersonal and customer care skills and the ability to proactively lead, deal with and resolve provider queries regarding payments. You will also have the ability to maintain good working relationships with colleagues, other teams, and partners.For more information please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. Please use your supporting statement to outline how you meet the Essential criteria in your application.Interviews will be held on 10th and 11th November 2025. Our benefits We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your familyBuy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice schemeTake your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstancesMake Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savingsAccess to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growthPaid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working dayAccess to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion networkOpportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition AwardsAn Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemesTake a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.