Finance Apprentice x (3)

Tameside is one of the ten local authorities that make up Greater Manchester, nestling between the vibrancy of Manchester City Centre and the tranquillity of the Peak District which is on our doorstep. Our nine towns, each with strong identities, share a vision of a more prosperous Tameside with improved life opportunities, higher educational attainment, better paid jobs and the chance to enjoy the scenic places in and around the borough. Services are supported via a business partnering approach providing financial advice and expertise throughout the whole organisation. You will play a crucial role in building transformed and financially sustainable cutting edge services that will serve residents and help improve health outcomes as part of our wider integrated Care Together programme. This role will provide essential support to the Financial Management service and will deliver a number of key tasks including:

• Supporting monthly service directorate budget monitoring including payroll and service demand contracts.
• Reconciling financial management system accounts together with the creation and maintenance of supporting documents
• Supporting the financial and performance monitoring of cost savings, cost avoidance and invest to save initiatives
• Supporting service directorate's with medium and long term financial planning
• Supporting the final accounts process, The Council will also provide support to gain the Association of Accounting Technicians Qualification at levels 3 and 4.
  
  If you have a high performing track record of achieving solutions, can work in partnership and deliver a strong team culture based around a borough wide vision, are a trusted individual who can operate as part of a team delivering financial outcomes to support future success and change, we would like to hear from you. You will also be proactive, motivated and dynamic with the drive and ability to succeed and deliver outcomes against stringent deadlines., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
Please note this role is only open to applicants who are not studying for or hold an NVQ or any qualification at the equivalent level in the field applied for.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities. We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.