Finance Officer

2 weeks ago

Lowestoft, United Kingdom Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 285207**Salary**:

- £25,915 - £27,116**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Accountancy
- Finance**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Lowestoft, East of England, NR33 0HTAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Cefas is the Government’s Marine Science Agency, and the Finance Team plays an important role in helping our people ‘Make a Difference’ to the marine environment and the resources that rely upon it. There are many different projects the team support making the work varied and interesting.

The purpose of the Finance Officer role at Cefas is to support key finance activities including financial management information, assurance and compliance outputs, statutory financial reporting, transactional processing and payroll. Cefas provides good development support opportunities for those with our passion to always improve.

We welcome flexible working and are open to a blended approach of working from home and in an office.
- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

**Job description**:
Cefas are growing our work in the UK and overseas creating new demands for our Finance Team to build efficient and effective business support solutions as well as our active strategic planning.

The role involves:

- Working in a dynamic and supportive finance environment, using financial ERP systems (Agresso) and Microsoft Excel.
- Building and maintaining our Cefas Values through respectful, working relationships with all our colleagues, funding partners and suppliers and enhancing our equality, diversity and inclusivity.
- Providing accurate and assured input and support for all our financial transactions within our business systems including sales and purchase ledger.
- Production of the monthly management financial reporting by completion of journals and reconciliations.
- Maintaining and enhancing our financial controls, assurance and compliance performance and working with our audit reviews to further improve them.
- Proudly providing excellent customer service.

Once in role you will be required to complete your AAT qualification or equivalent which is supported by an apprenticeship. Some experience of financial transactions would be advantageous but is not essential.

In addition, Cefas reserves the right to ask staff to take on additional duties and responsibilities which are commensurate with their grade.

**Person specification**:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and confidence to use varied and appropriate communication methods
- Proficient in IT skills, particularly Microsoft software including Word, Excel and SharePoint, and a willingness to embrace digital tools to work collaboratively both virtually and physically
- Good attention to detail and pride in producing work to a high standard
- Self-motivated with excellent organisational skills, including adapting to changing priorities and flexibility when responding to customer needs
- Ability and enthusiasm to deliver excellent customer service
- Confident in building and maintaining strong working relationships across the business and working collaboratively with team members

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:

- Access to learning and development tailored to your role
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Generous annual leave entitlement - 25 days' annual leave on entry (rising to 30 days over first 5yrs) for full time new entrants to the Civil Service
- Employees receive 8 public holidays a year, plus an additional day to mark the late Queen's birthday
- Staff recognition vouchers
- In-year award scheme

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**Application Process**

**Sift**

**Interview**

Interviews will take place by Microsoft Teams.

A date has not yet been confirmed for the interviews to take place.

**Blended Working**

Using a blended working framework, we can have some choice over when, where and how we work to deliver our outcomes to meet customer and business needs. For many people, this will mean working some of the time in a Cefas workplace, some on fieldwork and some from home where this is possible to do so.

Blended working is offered with a minimum expec

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