SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL: Financial Business Analyst

The starting salary for this role is £32,798 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week.

This role is open to remote working meaning you aren’t required in the office 5 days a week. We’re less about you driving to work and more about us collectively driving down our carbon footprint. We care about how you work rather than where you work, the people rather than the postcode. In support of our people and our greener futures strategies, we’d welcome a conversation with the successful candidate on what remote working may look like for you.

Twelve15 is a trading department of Surrey County Council, delivering traded services in education and other settings. For over 70 years our service has been providing healthy, nutritious, and well-balanced meals to pupils, students and adults as well as offering a specialist service maintaining gym, sports, and design technology equipment. To help us continue to transform with the times we have developed some ambitious plans including a redesign of our organisation which is now complete and will create a more outward facing, ‘one team’ approach that supports and recognises talent, provides opportunity, and drives excellent product and services to our clients and customers.

Twelve15 are starting a new chapter, our Vision and Mission, which is outlined below, form the bedrock upon which the redesign program will evolve with one underlying aim is for the customer to be at the very heart of the Twelve15 service provision.

• Our vision: We want to live in a world where our Planet is looked after and the people living on it have healthy bodies and minds
• Our mission: To make a positive difference in school dining and to be the bedrock of school services
• Our newly redesigned workforce is integral to achieving our aims and ambitions for the future

As such, we have a new opening for a Financial Business Analyst to complete our Finance Team. Reporting to the Head of Finance you will support the Twelve15 Leadership Team delivering a first-class customer experience.

The main responsibility for this role will be to provide financial and statistical insight for commercial & operational decision making including, monthly/annual financial reporting, project reporting, statistical/financial trends analysis.

Your ability to demonstrate our Vision and Mission and work within a ‘one team’ culture is crucial to our success. Working with a high level of independence and initiative to manage the portfolio of projects is crucial including the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders to aid in the delivery of these initiatives is also key.

Taking a whole Twelve15 Team approach will drive opportunities for all staff to increase their career opportunities by broadening experience across the whole of Twelve15.

Do our values resonate with you? Does this sound like the right opportunity for you? If so, we encourage you to apply.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 10th June 2023 with interviews to follow.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Benefits

From flexible working to job sharing we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role. You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years’ service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit the advert on the employer site.

Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role.

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.