Job Description

Executive Officer

The Role:

Start Date: 20th January 2025

Rate of Pay: £15.17ph - Weekly pay

Hours: 37 per week, Monday - Friday, Full Time

Location: Sheffield

Temporary Assignment (until May 2025)

Join the Department for Education's Sector Reporting division, where you'll play a pivotal role in using data collections to ensure 11,000 academies and Further Education colleges meet their budgeting and financial management obligations.

Brook Street is recruiting on behalf of the Department for Education for a role within their finance team. The position involves validating data from the academies sector as part of two large-scale exercises. You'll apply prescribed checks to review the internal consistency of the returns as well as checking to corroborating evidence from other sources.

This role also includes other finance-related tasks and offers full training. Familiarity with company accounts is desirable but not essential.

Essential criteria

• Ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight timescales, with a good attention to detail.
• Literacy, numeracy, and an ability to follow the logical steps of a prescribed process in an organised way, and record clear, concise notes on findings.
• Competent IT user with good experience of using Microsoft Excel, and exposure to Outlook, Teams and other office applications, and willingness to use unfamiliar tools with training.

*PLEASE NOTE - To progress with your application, you will be asked to complete a Literacy, Numeracy and Excel assessment. Should you be successful in this application, you will be required to provide right to work documents and references to cover the past 3 years in full.*

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.