Senior Finance Officer

1 month ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Pertemps Scotland Full time

Pertemps are recruiting for a Senior Finance Officer to work with a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh on a temporary assignment.
**Hours**:37.5 hours per week
**Pay Rate**: £13.35
**Start Date**: ASAP
**Contract Length**: 4 Months initially
**Location**: Hybrid (Edinburgh)
**Main Duties**:

- Line management of staff. Involving day to day liaison and regular meetings to plan and co-ordinate blocks of work, allocate responsibilities and activities, share information, offer advice and support, reallocate duties as required.
- Assist the team by dealing with escalated accounts payable, credit control and payroll enquiries
- Monitor the Finance Service Desk and team mailboxes to ensure all enquiries are responded to in a timely manner and the responses are of good quality
- Regularly review of the policies with a pro-active approach to continuous process improvements.
- Manage the monthly payroll variance checking and follow up process
- Providing expert financial advice, technical guidance and decision support
- Providing transactional processing and analytical services
- Producing the Board's budgets and finance reports, business plans, annual accounts and other statutory returns
- Ensuring the finance systems/procedures meet all statutory requirements and support business needs

**Key Skills**:

- Understanding of payroll and expenses related issues
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to plan and organise a variety of tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
- Ability to make decisions and analyse complex situations
- Extensive experience of using Microsoft Excel
- Development and reporting of key performance indicators for financial services
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise own and team's workload effectively
- Proactive approach to continuous process improvements

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