Treasury Administration And Quality Assurance Officer

Role Responsibility

We are recruiting for a Treasury Administration and Quality Assurance Officer (KR8) to join Kent County Council’s Treasury & Investments Team, Finance division.  The role is permanent, full-time (37 hours a week).  The primary location for this role is Invicta House, Maidstone, Kent; the successful candidate will undertake hybrid working (both home and office working, according to business needs). We welcome applications from both internal and external applicants.

The post holder will work within an experienced and successful treasury and investments team. Undertaking an important role within the team, you will be principally responsible for providing the back office support to the treasury management function, as well as administrative support for the council’s cash and banking operations. You will also maintain accounting records for the treasury and investment activity as well as for Kent Pension Fund. Previous experience of working in a finance environment is expected, as is a good understanding of financial systems and control process.  Given the financial nature of the role, the post holder will be expected to have good MS Excel spreadsheet skills and have excellent attention to detail. Please see attached job description/person specification for further details.

Application

We politely request that all applicants clearly state their interest, skills and financial experience for this role (relevant to the job description/person specification) in the ‘Reason for Applying’ section of their online application form, in particular, outlining their experience of financial systems and MS Excel.

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.

The closing date for all applications is Tuesday 19th March 2024. Interviews to be undertaken in-person at Maidstone, Kent, during March/April 2024. We politely request that candidates apply directly via the KCC jobs portal, no assistance is required from recruitment agencies in filling this role.