Business Support Officer (Finance)

Job description

Job Introduction

Title: Business Support Officer (Finance)

Grade: Scale 5

Contract: Fixed Term - 24 months

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £32,535 to £33,987

Service: Street Services (Divisional Business Support Team)

Location: Birchmere Centre, Eastern Way, Thamesmead, SE28 8BF

Street Services is seeking a Business Support Officer (Finance) to join its busy Divisional Business Support Team.

Street Services has 446 members of staff, and the Business Support Team is responsible for providing a wide range of functions that assist delivery of statutory frontline waste collection and street cleansing services.

Under the supervision of the Senior Business Support Officer (Finance, Operations and Traded Services) the successful candidate will:

• Be responsible for the day-to-day administration of a portfolio of business waste customers
• Ensure that service level agreements are up to date and in place where traded services are provided
• Monitor income payments against service level agreements to ensure payment is received and assist customers will payment schedules where necessary
• Monitor debt recovery
• Support enquires from new business waste customers

You will have exceptional IT and communication skills with excellent customer care. You will also be a good team player who is flexible and willing to adapt the changing needs of the service.

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification . We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.

Attached documents

• JD Business Support Officer (Finance).pdf
• PS - Business Support Officer - Finance (Scale 5) (1).pdf