Financial Management Specialist

3 weeks ago


Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom Venesky Brown Full time
Finance Officer Job Description

Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Aberdeen, is seeking a Finance Officer to support the Senior Finance Business Partner in the planning and control of the Directorate budget.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the Senior Finance Business Partner in the planning and control of the Directorate budget and assist with budget revisions, draft budget preparation, and year-end accounts exercise.
  • Provide support to a number of branches within the Directorate, monitor budget activity, and embed financial management within day-to-day work.
  • Produce monthly finance monitoring reports and forecasts for the branches, flagging up potential issues to inform decision-making by senior managers.
  • Build and maintain productive working relationships with branch members of staff and wider Directorate colleagues.
  • Manage the monthly accruals process to set timelines, review monthly expenditure for allocated branches, comparing data on the finance system, and identifying accruals, prepayments, and adjustments, producing journals as required.
  • Monitor branch budgets, including reviewing actual expenditure against forecasts and investigating reasons for variances.
  • Contribute to continuous quality improvement, value for money, and promotion of best practice of finance activities to non-finance staff.
  • Create requisitions for goods and services for branches on the purchasing system, ensuring receipt of goods/services and validation of invoices for payment.

Essential Skills:

  • Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work as part of a team and build good working relationships with internal stakeholders.
  • Proven experience and understanding of financial processes, including Purchases to Pay, Budgeting, Financial Management, and Resource Accounting.
  • Ability to analyse and interpret financial information and present findings and financial advice to non-finance managers, using Excel for constructing and interrogating spreadsheets for reporting purposes.
  • Proven organisational and time management skills to manage and prioritise workloads, balancing the needs of the regular monthly and annual financial cycles with other requirements.
  • Ideal candidate will have a Disclosure Scotland certificate.


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