The Opportunity
Join our team as a Finance Team Leader!
Salary: £ 39,862 to £42,839 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: Hybrid working at County Hall, Chichester and remotely
Interview date: W/C 15/06/2026
We’re looking for a Finance Team Leader to join our Operational Finance team! In this exciting role, you will play a key part in supporting the rollout of our new Finance information system, Oracle. If you have a solid background in Accounts Payable and Purchase to Pay systems, this is a fantastic opportunity to help us transition from SAP to Oracle smoothly.
As our Finance Team Leader, you will be leading a team in Accounts Payable guiding them to achieve their goals while ensuring we deliver excellent, customer-focused service. Your day-to-day activities will include:
- Providing direction and support to individuals and teams, including those working across different disciplines or locations.
- Collecting data from our finance systems to help prepare monitoring and performance reports.
- Helping to develop our new finance payment system processes, which includes training, testing, and implementation.
- Supporting our self-service initiatives by coaching and training on our various corporate payment methods.
- Ensuring compliance with our corporate payment systems by maintaining accurate financial records.
If you’re ready to make a real impact and work with a great team, we’d love to hear from you!
What are we looking for?
As our successful Finance Team Leader, you will:
- Be proactive with a can-do attitude, and a focus on personal and professional development.
- Have effective people management skills including performance management skills and the ability to provide direction and support to individuals and teams, including those working across different disciplines or locations.
- Be a good team player, keen and able to work collaboratively with stakeholders, partners and third-party suppliers to achieve outcomes within a complex operating environment.
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to make the most of your talents.
- Be able to effectively manage conflicting priorities, for yourself and your team, to deliver high quality projects.
- Have an inquisitive and enquiring mind, which will aid continuous improvement and learning.
- Have a strong focus on continuous improvement and a commitment to delivering and ensuring value for money.
Benefits
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, we want to support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential. In addition you will have access to a range of benefits including:
- An excellent local government pension scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- Arange of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- Volunteering opportunities
- Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
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