Principal Development Officer, Within Highland area

Job Description

Post Title: Principal Development Officer
Location: Various within the Highland Council Area
Hours: 35 hours per week
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £41,386 - £44,790 p.a.

Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.

Contact Person: Murdina Boyd Tel: 01478 613837

Job Purpose:

• Analyse and monitor performance information to ensure service compliance with statutory duties and adequacy of service performance against targets and statutory indicators.
• Analyse raw performance data to understand and identify where and how efficiencies and improvements can be made.
• Develop service plans and strategy to improve performance whilst still meeting policy and legislative requirements
• Use specialist technical knowledge to support the budget setting process for all Revs & BS budgets, including compiling the budget, setting estimates, analysing and monitoring income and expenditure and identifying opportunities
• Use specialist technical knowledge to analyse data and perform complex calculations as required before completion of all appropriate financial returns and claims, including DWP subsidy claim
• Reconciliation of all related budgets, including Revs & BS budget, CTAX,NDR,HB, DHP, SWF, collections on behalf of BID’s and Scottish Water, and payments in respect of the Sheriff Officer contract.
• Work with management team, internal and external audit to ensure compliance with financial regulations, legislative and policy requirements and assurance of accuracy and quality.

Please APPLY ONLINE. If you are unable to apply online and you wish to request an offline application pack, please contact Business Support, T: 01955 608279 (24 hour voicemail) quoting the post reference number above.

Please find the Job Description below.

The Highland Council understands that diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, and being fair and inclusive. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in our workforce.

As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria requirements for the post.

Shortlisted applicants will normally be contacted by email, unless otherwise stated. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

Requirements

1. Educated to degree level or equivalent accountancy qualification, able to demonstrate 5 years relevant experience and expertise in relation to budgets and financial resources within a welfare benefit and local government taxation environment.
2. Commitment to continuous professional development.