Finance Officer
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Finance Officer
- Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 2, 3rd Floor
- Salary: £30,024 - £32,597 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 21/01/2026
- Job Requisition Number: 13194
- This post is not open to job share
About the Team & Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Officer to join the Investment and Accounting Team, assisting in the provision of financial and investment services within the Gloucestershire Pension Fund. The team provide effective financial services to the Pension Fund, ensuring the accurate accounting of both the receipt of pension contributions and payment of benefits made to and from its members and employers. This is in addition to the responsible management of the Fund’s operational cashflows and its investment portfolio, which currently totals £3.9bn.
As part of this role, you will be mainly focussed on activities such as:-
- Financial Accuracy – Reconcile bank transactions and ensure smooth transfer of data into our SAP financial accounting system.
- Contribution Management - Check and record monthly employer returns, resolve queries, and maintain strong relationships with employers and payroll providers.
- Governance & Compliance - Assist in maintaining accurate financial information that will assist effective management decision making and comply with statutory regulations and good governance arrangements.
- Payments & Debt Recovery - Assist in the prompt payment of invoices received within the Fund from external partners, together with the raising of invoices from the Fund to employers, and recharging costs of services provided.
- Reporting & Returns - Assist with statutory financial returns and provide timely accurate information for management and regulatory bodies as required.
- Investment Oversight - Assist in the effective monitoring and tracking of the Fund’s investment portfolio and provide appropriate financial information as required, and assist in the tracking ESG metrics, including carbon footprint reporting, to help the Fund achieve our sustainability goals.
As part of the Fund’s commitment to ongoing staff development, career progression from grade 6 to grades 7 and 8 is available within this role upon satisfactory completion of the required performance and qualification criteria.
About You
To be successful you will have:-
- A full accounting technician qualification or part qualified AAT (or equivalent) but is actively seeking to be fully qualified.
- An attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy.
- Excellent IT skills, being a competent user of Microsoft excel (i.e.- v-lookups/pivots/sumifs)
- A positive can-do attitude with an appetite to learn.
- A friendly approach to collaborative working with the ability to work independently.
About Us
- For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
- Flexible and agile working opportunities 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
- An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
- Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
- Career development and qualification opportunities
- Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Access to generous defined benefit pension scheme (the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), which we administer)
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- An in-house Occupational Health service
- Employee discount scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
- Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
How to apply
If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” Button.
For an informal discussion about the role, or if you would like to know more about the role then please contact either Nigel Gabb, Strategic Pensions Manager - Investments & Accounting,(nigel.gabb@gloucestershire.gov.uk) or Maria Saunders, Pensions Accountant,(maria.saunders@gloucestershire.gov.uk)
Short-listed candidates will be contacted by email and invited to interview with interviews likely to take place week commencing 9th February 2026. (Subject to amendment due to work commitments)
Additional Information
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The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to recruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error.
By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.
*a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
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