RECRUITMENT OF RESPONSIBLE FINANCE OFFICER (RFO)  

THE ROLE

Great Bowden Parish Council (GBPC) is seeking to recruit a part-time Responsible Finance Officer (RFO).

The role would suit someone who is dynamic, loves a challenge, likes a varied role, is community focused, and has good accounting and financial skills and experience. The RFO needs to be a financial allrounder and be confident with finance, accounting, asset registers, financial risk assessments, year end, payroll, audits, financial management reporting, and external grant funding.

The role is part-time home-based.  Flexibility is needed as evening meetings are a requirement of the role.

Great Bowden has recently hosted a survey of our wildflower/wildlife verges, the first since 2022. The results were very encouraging, and a testament to the hard work of our volunteers in this task. The surveyor commented “17 species typical of quality meadow grassland were recorded with a ‘quality’ score of 25 which is an impressive number for a relatively small verge.” The report also highlighted the number of species identified, “which is helping to provide a guide to the overall quality of the verge as a meadow habitat.

View ‘Main Street Verges, Great Bowden Re-survey and Management Review’ document

View the report