Finance Administrator - East Midlands Shared Services : Job Details

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker - Required to work in the office once every 3 weeks

Salary: £25,995 - £26,409 per annum

Working Hours: 37 Hours, Mon - Thurs 830am-1700pm, Friday 0830am-1630pm

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 27th August 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

Do you want a job where no two days are the same?

Come and join East Midlands Shared Services, embrace the challenge, conquer the day!

About the Role

This Finance Administrator position supports, both, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, working within East Midlands Services, where the overriding standard is one of efficiency and customer service. The Finance Service Centre, based in Loxley House, Nottingham, serves both Leicestershire County Council and Nottingham City Council with their transactional finance. The postholder will provide transactional processing services to support the effective delivery of front line services whilst meeting or exceeding customer needs across customer service, accounts payable, accounts receivable.

Additionally, this role supports :

• Study Support
• Attractive Local Government Pension
• Hybrid Working

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Overall knowledge of transactional processes, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
• To be the first point of contact for enquiries and resolution of payment related receive and resolve queries from external customers/organisations and staff/managers from strategic partners of EMSS, which will often include liaison with strategic partners of EMSS, internal and external customers within set guidelines and parameters, to ensure the smooth operation of the process.
• To be able to manage difficult customers and stakeholders to ensure a satisfactory outcome is achieved within an agreed timeframe.
• To assist the Supervisors to embed a culture of co-operation and flexibility across the Team.
• Attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and quality
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.