Finance Support Assistant

Finance Support Assistant 

Nursery Education Funding Team

Do you have an eye for detail and a passion for supporting early years education? Join our Nursery Education Funding team and help ensure that vital funding reaches providers who deliver free early education to children across Cornwall.

What is Nursery Education Funding?

Early Years Entitlements give families access to funded childcare for children from 9 months to 5 years, helping them learn, play, and thrive. Our team processes these funding claims and payments to ensure providers receive accurate and timely support.

The Role:

We are looking for a Finance Support Assistant to work within the Nursery Education Funding Team. This is a hybrid role; remote working is available, but the successful candidate must be able to commute to Bodmin when required.  This is a permanent part-time 18.5 hour position working Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

As a Finance Support Assistant, you will:

• Process and validate Nursery Education Funding claims from early years providers
• Generate and check payment runs to ensure accuracy
• Process applications from parents
• Provide support and guidance to providers and parents 
• Maintain accurate records and carry out audits
• Support the Early Years Census and statutory returns
• Process education payments and invoices

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.      

This position will be subject to a basic criminal record disclosure check. 

 What we are looking for:

• Strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team 
• Self- motivation to work independently
• Good IT skills and experience with business systems
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities
• Previous experience in finance or business support role

To be considered for this position you MUST submit a supporting statement to demonstrate how you meet the Competences on page 7 and 8 of the role profile. We suggest you research and use the STAR method to help you with this. Applicants who do not submit a supporting statement are unlikely to be considered for the post.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert 

Why join us?

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

• Flexible working: Based in Bodmin currently with the majority home-based
• Work-life balance: Wednesday to Friday pattern
• Impactful role: Your work supports children’s early learning opportunities
• Development: Training and career growth in a supportive team

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary, the position sits in our Grade 2 banding, starting at £26,597 and increasing annually with a top range of £31,869 after 6 years’ service in role
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information: 

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role 

The full role profile is attached here  

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process. 

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.