Northgate Systems Administrator
We are currently working with an East Midlands local authority who require the interim assistance of a Systems Administrator for their Northgate system. The system would be responsible for a range of ICT systems to support the delivery of services within the department.
Role Responsibilities
- Support the wider organisation by acting as a key point of contact for other departments for the Northgate systems
- Support the delivery of high quality, efficient and effective services by maintaining and developing software and business systems
- Undertake regular reconciliations between system records and the Council’s General Ledger
- Assist and be the main point of contact for the compilation and submission of government returns
- Develop, implement, enhance, evaluate and maintain computer software packages for the combined disciplines
- Develop processes and provide training and documentation on enhancements to the departmental operational software
- Provide departmental support for all system mapping requirements
- Undertake monthly/quarterly reconciliations of Revenues and Benefits expenditure and income to the General Ledger
- Extract, prepare and present departmental statistics and monitoring indicators on monthly and ad-hoc basis including updating the corporate monitoring system
- Prepare, audit and submit returns to Government Offices
The ideal candidate will have:
- A good knowledge of the Northgate Systems or similar
- Working knowledge of Benefits, Council Tax, Recovery and business rates – the Housing Benefit regulations, Council Tax Support regulations and associated acts and legislation
- Ability to manage, train and develop a team of staff
- Previous Public Sector experience
Start Date: ASAP
Rate of Pay: Negotiable dependant on experience (Inside IR35)
Hours: 37 hours per week
Duration: Until March 2022 initially with possible extensions
Full Job Description available upon request
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