Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Finance Officer for an initial 6 month contract with the potential to extend on a rate of £200/day (inside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances this role will be remote based for the foreseeable future.Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the smooth running of day-to-day financial operations, managing workload and priorities.
- Ensure that the 10-day invoice payment performance target is met and a high-quality service is delivered to internal and external customers.
- Identify weaknesses and inefficiencies in controls and processes and put forward recommendations for improvement.
- Employing judgement and financial knowledge and experience to identify errors and use initiative to rectify errors and proactively prevent issue escalation.
- Responsible for carrying out control and quality assurance procedures over financial transactions and reports, including identifying MIS-posted items, performing reconciliations and carrying out trend analysis.
- Process daily financial transactions, including journals, using judgement and financial experience to review financial coding and challenging supporting evidence to maintain the integrity of financial records in line with financial standards.
- Review invoices and maintain the monthly accruals and prepayments workbook, ensuring journals are accurately processed.
- Respond to queries received on the team and provide professional guidance and support to colleagues.
- Responsible for financial delegated authority letter review and support the Finance Manager in reviewing supporting policy.
- Responsible for monthly cash management returns.
- Work flexibly across the Finance Team, taking on a range of other work as required to ensure that priorities are met.
Essential Skills:
- Experience of IT Packages such as Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Advanced excel skills with a proven track record of using excel effectively as a finance business tool.
- Be able to demonstrate strong analytical skills, with proven ability to extract and analyse complex information from a variety of sources, drawing together key findings and recommendations where financial data analysis concerned.
- Strong communication skills, including evidence of the ability to build and maintain positive and effective working relationships.
- An energetic, self-motivated person who takes responsibility for their own workload, works efficiently under pressure and delivers to tight timescales.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.