SEN Finance Coordinator

SEN Finance Coordinator

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 6 Months Initially (likely extension) 

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 Children’s 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 dpalmer@venngroup.com directly and a member of the team will be in contact!