Are you ready to use your financial acumen and professional business partnering skills to make a difference to the residents of West Sussex?

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme, employers pension contribution at 19.70%
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days plus bank holidays and opportunity to buy additional leave
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring

At West Sussex County Council, we put our customers at the heart of all our services. The Finance Directorate plays a leading role in this, in enabling finances to crucially support the delivery of front-line services. As a result, we are responsive to customer and stakeholder needs through a dynamic, empowered and flexible team. By aligning resources, this allows us to provide a professional service appropriate to future organisational needs. This is in addition to keeping WSCC safe and secure through appropriate financial control.

The Directorate's priorities are to ensure that the basics are done well whilst challenging the County Council to spend its money better, especially in the context of becoming more strategic and forward looking.