Senior Business Support Officer

Description

Our local government clients in Liverpool, Merseyside, seek a Senior Business Support Officer to manage educational and social care placements, support contract finance and monitoring, and handle supplier enquiries. At least 2 days per week on-site are required.

Responsibilities

Support the creation, monitoring and management reporting of placement and contract data using relevant systems, including Capita and Liquid Logic, relating to the commissioning and contracting process, including risk registers, issue logs, attendance data, engagement reports, progress reports, Ofsted notifications, and contract key performance indicators.

Qualifications Essential

• GCSE Grade (or equivalent) in English Language and Mathematics.
• NVQ level 4 qualification or equivalent experience
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), social media and CRM.

Criteria for Shortlisting - About You - What We're Looking for in the Ideal Candidate: a good Understanding of Education and Local Authority processes, strong IT skills including minute-taking and report writing, extensive Excel experience for data management, and strong finance support skills, preferably with SAP experience.

• Good Understanding of Education and Local Authority processes, policies and procedures, ideally having previously worked in a Business Support role in a similar environment.
• Strong IT skills, including minute-taking, report writing, and preparing presentations.
• Excellent knowledge of using Excel as a data management tool and considerable experience in working with spreadsheets to manipulate and extract data to present in summary and on an individual basis for case tracking and overall management reporting purposes.
• Strong Finance Business Support skills, previous experience of using SAP financial systems and an advantage.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal; team worker; able to use own initiative to manage workloads.
• An advanced Excel qualification is an advantage.

Compliance Requirements

• 3 Years References
• Enhanced DBS
• Willing to engage in the Pre-Engagement Questionnaire and mandatory pre-screening application process.

Diamond Blaque Group, a leading public-sector provider, is acting as the employment Business for this vacancy. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that values diversity and equal opportunity in the workplace.