Finance Business Partner

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Audit Scotland Full time

**About us**

We are Audit Scotland. Our vision is that public money is well spent to meet the needs of Scotland’s people.

To achieve this, we support the Auditor General for Scotland and the Accounts Commission to provide clear, independent, and objective assurance on how effectively public money is being managed and spent. Our work covers about £59bn of public spending, almost 300 public sector accounts, and the services and projects that affect all people and communities in Scotland. 

As well as what we do, how we do it is integral to delivering our vision and critical to our wellbeing and our organisational success. We put our organisational values of equality, independence, innovation, integrity and respect at the heart of everything we do.

We employ around 340 staff in a wide variety of roles, working from our main offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and through a network of regional offices across Scotland.

There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us. We offer a rewarding place to work, a supportive and open culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities. Benefits include 42 days of annual leave including public holidays, an attractive local government pension scheme with 19.4% employer contributions, personal development allowances and flexible working hours. We’ve also been named one of the top 25 workplaces in Scotland and the UK’s tenth best accountancy workplace in the 2023 Best Companies awards.

**Overall purpose of the role**

To assist the Head of Finance in providing strategic management of Audit Scotland’s corporate financial and physical resources to support the delivery of Audit Scotland’s Corporate Plan.

**What you will be doing**

You will:

- Assist the Head of Finance to establish, manage and report on Audit Scotland’s budget for:

- The Audit Scotland Board
- The Executive Team
- The Accounts Commission
- The Scottish Commission for Public Audit
- Budget holders
- Support the Head of Finance to prepare a medium-term financial plan to meet the strategic objectives outlined in the corporate plan.
- Produce reports on Audit Scotland’s performance against agreed budgets and liaise with budget holders to prepare in-year financial forecasts.
- Financial modelling and scenario planning of expenditure and fee income budgets.
- Evaluate and assess financial impact of business cases and their long-term affordability implications.
- Work closely with our Audit Services Group and Performance Audit and Best Value Business Managers to develop reporting on the cost of audit delivery.
- Manage the month and year-end processes ensuring all work-in-progress, accruals, prepayments, fixed asset, and other essential journal entries are posted prior to Head of Finance sign off.
- Key contact for managing and developing Audit Scotland’s financial management systems.
- Assist with the design of reporting systems to enable managers throughout Audit Scotland to have appropriate financial management information.
- Assist with the preparation of Audit Scotland’s annual accounts liaising with the external auditor as necessary.
- Responsible for the submission of VAT and Corporation Tax returns to meet HMRC deadlines.
- Support the Auditor General for Scotland with the discharge of the Comptroller function.
- Manage the cash flow of Audit Scotland.
- Key contact for Audit Scotland procurement compliance.
- Ensure the day-to-day operations of the sales and purchase ledgers deliver the timely payment of invoices and collection of all income in respect of chargeable services provided by Audit Scotland.
- Contribute to the enhancement of the reputation and standing of Audit Scotland by demonstrating high professional standards to external and internal audit.
- Contribute to the continuous improvements in the standard of financial management information throughout Audit Scotland through personal reading, personal professional development, meetings with government departments, working parties, conferences, and seminars.

**What we are looking for**

**Essential criteria**:

- High level of oral and written communication skills, to provide clear advice to all levels of staff and managers.
- Good interpersonal skills and reasoning abilities.
- Hold a recognised accountancy qualification (CIPFA, ICAS, other CCAB, CIMA or equivalent).
- Computer literacy with experience of using Microsoft Office products and finance systems.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Post qualification experience.
- Knowledge and understanding of the business of Audit Scotland.
- Knowledge of central government accounting standards and budgeting processes.

**Interested? Next steps**

**  Diversity and Inclusion   **

We value the unique perspective a diverse workforce brings to what we do. Therefore, we are keen to increase representation in our workforce and support progression of minority ethnic groups. We are also a proud disability confident employer.   

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