Vacancy for a Clerk / RFO

SUDBROOKE PARISH COUNCIL

APPOINTMENT OF CLERK AND RESPONSIBLE FINANCIAL OFFICER

(One post)

Salary within grade SCP 14-20

Part-time (15 hours per week)

Sudbrooke Parish Council is seeking highly organised and committed applicants to undertake this key role of Clerk and RFO responsible for all day-to-day organisation and management of the Council’s services, staff, facilities and finances. You will need therefore to be enthusiastic, flexible and community-focussed with excellent leadership, management, administrative, inter-personal, accounting and IT skills in order to work successfully with staff, Councillors, external organisations, stakeholders and the community.

As Responsible Finance Officer, you will manage and control the Council’s financial affairs by maintaining proper financial systems, records and controls, preparing and monitoring the Council’s budgets, organising the payroll, ensuring that the Council complies with all requirements of Internal and External Audit, managing all aspects of insurance and the asset register and reporting to the Council and Committees.

If you have excellent financial, Committee and administrative experience in a local authority or similar environment and ideally understand local government financial systems and procedures, accounts, payroll, budget setting and monitoring, risk management and controls, this post is ideal. 

The successful candidate will work the large majority of the 15 hours from home. These hours will be contracted to work flexibly over a five day week. Some evening attendance is required, currently Parish Council meetings take place on the first Thursday of every month except August.

We offer excellent nationally based terms and conditions of employment for this post including a pension scheme.

Please email  sudbrookeparishcouncil@gmail.com  for a recruitment pack and an application form.

Closing date for applications:  Friday 14th March 2025

Interview date: Wednesday 26th March 2025

Sudbrooke Parish Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.