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I am currently working on the below opportunity for a SEN Finance Coordinatorworking with anĀ East Midlands based Local AuthorityĀ to lead and manage the SEN Payments Finance function, ensuring customer-focused, best-practice financial services through effective resource and performance management.
Please Find Below initial details for your perusal.
SEN Finance Coordinator
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 Months Initially (likely extension) or 12 Month FTC
Rate: Negotiable Hourly Rate (Inside IR35)
Hybrid Working Arrangement
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the SEN Payments Finance function, ensuring delivery is compliant with legislation, regulation, and best practice
- Develop and maintain strong partnerships with internal departments, care pathway leads, external providers, and agencies
- Ensure effective communication and coordination of financial processes, including provider engagement and response to queries
- Oversee staff performance, setting clear targets aligned with service priorities, managing development, and ensuring accountability
- Manage budgets and resources effectively, ensuring financial controls, reconciliation processes, and data integrity across systems (e.g., Oracle, Synergy, Mosaic)
- Ensure service performance, using data and performance indicators to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement
- Support and lead service transformation, contributing to the redesign of finance systems, processes, and structures in collaboration with Strategic Finance and Childrenās Services
- Deliver governance and compliance, overseeing responses to complaints, FOIs, data breaches, and ensuring secure information handling in line with Council policy
- Promote innovation and improvement, identifying opportunities to enhance SEN finance functions while maintaining statutory compliance
- Contribute to business continuity planning and maintain operational readiness during service changes or disruptions
- Represent the service in cross-departmental meetings, projects, and multi-agency forums
Key Skills and Qualifications:
- Educated to degree level, or Part CCAB or AAT qualification.
- Appropriate professional / management qualification, or equivalent management experience
- Strong understanding of core finance functions (e.g., transactional and management accounting).
- Knowledge of financial controls, performance indicators, and finance best practice.
- Familiarity with financial technologies, such as Oracle Fusion, ERP systems, and reporting tools like Power BI.
- Understanding of confidentiality, data protection, and HR processes (e.g., supervision and appraisal).
- Ability to clearly communicate complex financial concepts to non-finance audiences.
If this is of interest, in the first instance please can you please apply with a copy of your most updated CV or email Ā directly and a member of the team will be in contact!
