Assistant Finance Lead

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Scottish Government Full time

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

- 344203**Salary**:

- £35,867 - £41,013**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- B2**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Leith, Scotland, EH6 6QQ : Glasgow, Scotland, G2 8LUAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Do you have excellent attention to detail and the confidence to advise and influence colleagues and stakeholders at all levels?

We are recruiting for Assistant Finance Lead to work within our Business Cases and Management Accounts & Monthly reporting teams. You will be working with wider Programme colleagues to support development and track progress of business cases, and supporting month-end activity including journaling and analysing spend, reviewing forecasts, and discussing performance with Finance Leads and Budget Holders. There will also be wider team activity they can support, including developing our guidance for all staff and improving our processes and controls.

This is a key role and will require you to provide budget holders with sound financial guidance and advice. The role will require partnership working with senior budget holders to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements and best practice to assist business areas in achieving their objectives.

The Scotland Act 2016 devolves responsibility for a number of social security benefits to Scottish Ministers, as well as the power to top up benefits and create new benefits. The benefits to be devolved amount to some £2.9bn expenditure per year in Scotland and required the creation of a new Agency, Social Security Scotland, to deliver these benefits to citizens.

The Social Security Programme Directorate has been established to take forward the Scotland Act powers on devolved benefits. This vacancy is in the Social Security Programme Management & Delivery Division of the Directorate. Programme Finance sits within the Programme Management & Delivery division within the Social Security Programme, working alongside Policy, Analysis, technology and change management experts to ensure that the Social Security Programme achieves value for money, continues to be affordable, and achieves its planned outcomes. This is a large and growing business area: there are over 800 people in the Programme currently and this will continue to grow over the next year.

Programme Finance covers four key areas:

- Financial planning - supporting future years planning and the overarching business case for Social Security
- Financial planning - supporting the key business cases underpinning the programme
- Management accounts and monthly reporting
- Financial accounting, controls and governance

**Job description**:

- Journaling and analysing spend each month, to understand where key spend is recorded in Social Security and changes month-on-month.
- Reviewing forecasts and actual spend against budget, and supporting monthly meetings with Finance Leads and Budget Holders.
- Supporting the Business Case team working with wider Social Security colleagues to develop business cases, including financial analysis and reporting.
- Working flexibly across the team taking on a range of other work as required to ensure that priorities are met.
- Maintain & develop forecasting models as required.
- Work with key Senior Budget Holders to support their financial requirements.
- Direct, coach and develop staff.
- Prepare and review financial information as well as undertaking financial and staffing reconciliations.

**Person specification**:

- Understanding and working knowledge of financial systems. Advanced excel skills with a proven track record of using excel effectively as a business tool.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills, confident communicator with refined written communication skills and excellent attention to detail. Proven experience of stakeholder management across diverse teams.
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills. With the ability to present complex information in a logical manner.

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- To be confirmed
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under


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