Job Description

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

To work as a member of the Compliance Team, supporting the Compliance Team Leader, Local Authority, and associated stakeholders. This role ensures the precise entry and administration of data into the system for the prompt and efficient processing of payments. The Compliance Officer plays a vital role in enhancing the compliance and governance process through the review and implementation of new processes, procedures, system enhancements, and workflow development.

Tasks include, but are not limited to, overseeing the accuracy of data input, working closely with various services, and ensuring timely payments. The role also involves the continuous improvement of compliance and governance processes through the review and adoption of new processes and procedures, system enhancements, workflow development.

This role is instrumental in maintaining the integrity of financial data, assisting in budget management, and ensuring adherence to financial and statutory regulations. The Compliance Officer is also responsible for addressing complex transactions and queries from providers, thereby contributing to the efficient operational delivery of the authority's financial systems.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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About You

Educated at GCSE Level with proven good literacy and numeracy. Ability to maintain effective and efficient financial digital and administration systems ensuring that office procedures are adhered to. Ability to work under pressure and respond effectively to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines. Ability to prioritise, be flexible and arrange workloads to set targets. Ability to write clear letters/emails, memos and brief reports. Ability to communicate clearly through multiple methods (Letter, Email, Telephone, Face to Face) and tactfully with members of the public, staff and external agencies. Ability to maintain confidentiality.

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