Financial Operations Officer
Birmingham Childrens Trust · Birmingham, West Midlands
Financial Operations Officer at Birmingham Childrens Trust, based in Birmingham, West Midlands. This is a permanent role.
- Salary
- Competitive
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- Contract
- Permanent
- Posted
- 2 days ago
- Closes
- 21 Nov 2026
- Sector
- Finance & Accounting
Reference https://joinus.birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk/vacancies/1444/financial-operation
About the role
- Advertising Start Date: - 19 Oct 2026
- Directorate - Finance & Resource
- Location - One Avenue Road
- Vacancy Type - Permanent
- Salary Details: - £29,542 - £35,570 per year
- About The Role - As a Financial Operations Officer you will contribute to the provision of an efficient and consistent Financial Operations function that meets the needs of the business.
This is a changing and demanding environment so you must be able to work calmly and cooperatively with a range of colleagues and others. You will be required to undertake and be responsible for a range of Financial Operations tasks at team level in accordance with relevant procedures
The Financial Operations Team process a range of financial transactions, supporting services across Birmingham Childrens Trust. Eg: petty cash payments, ordering goods and services via a variety of methods, making payments to carers and individuals, and dealing with general/complex financial operations tasks and queries via email/face to face.
We have been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, following a 2023 inspection. This is a fantastic achievement for Birmingham Children's Trust, with many positive highlights focusing on areas including the quality of staff leadership, partnership working, safeguarding and corporate parenting. This role will be based at One Avenue Road, Aston, Birmingham, however we do work to hybrid model of working, as part of a flexible team and you may be asked to cover at our other location Lifford House, Stirchely, Birmingham. You must have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK. Sadly, we do not support those who require sponsorship.
About you:- You will be able to work effectively within a dedicated team environment, be customer focused and able to deliver the role with a flexible approach.
- Demonstrate continuous improvement, creative thinking and flexibility to improve performance, and meet demand across Financial Operations
- Be able to use own initiative to respond independently to difficult problems and unexpected situations
- Can independently interpret and analyse information and facts to solve varied problems
- Demonstrate the ability to resolving internal/external issues and providing a solution focused response
- Key skills we will be looking for in your personal statement include:-
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to engage professionally with a wide range of stakeholders.
- To be able to manage a number of conflicting priorities, to prioritise and organise workload and decide priorities, to ensure deadlines are met.
- Demonstrate experience and understanding in working in an outcome focused environment, and working towards continuous improvement.
- Ability to use own initiative to take independent decisions on less routine tasks, to ensure Financial Operations are providing an effective customer response and responding independently to difficult problems and unexpected situations
- An ability to work flexibly as part of a diverse team environment, providing cover when needed to ensure continuity of service provision, and the ability to multi-task to cover other roles within the team
- To demonstrate positive personal behaviours, being a positive role model and championing the organisations vision and values
- Experience of gathering and analysing data to be able to provide accurate and timely management information
Please note as part of our onboarding process, the successful candidate will be required undergo a series of background checks with Experian including Experian Right to Work, and Digital ID verification. These are essential pre-employment requirements.
Our Benefits- A generous annual leave package of 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service and 35 days after 10 years of service.
- Free on-site parking at our offices on One Avenue Road (Aston) and Lifford House (Stirchley). We also provide onsite electric car charging ports which are free to use!
- Full access to our amazing internal employee benefits scheme including, Occupational Health services, Rewards Schemes, Benefits discounts (including the Blue Light Card), Health & Fitness and Personal Wellbeing support and much more!
- Flexible and hybrid working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home and we offer a variety of working patterns.
- Pension Scheme - You will receive a generous local government career average pension scheme in line with the local government pension scheme.
Reference: https://joinus.birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk/vacancies/1444/financial-operation · Posted 2 days ago · Closes 21 Nov 2026 · Listed via Birmingham Childrens Trust
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