Finance Officer

1 week ago


Dundee, United Kingdom Pertemps Glasgow Perms Full time

Our client, require a **Finance Officer**, initially for 3 months, with potential extensions thereafter.
The role offers remote working with an office base in Dundee.
This role renumerates between £13.03 - £14.03 per hour (PAYE) based on a 35 hours working week.
**Main duties**:
**Budget monitoring**:

- Prepare for and hold monthly budget monitoring meetings, providing information for budget holders, including analysis, to meet their individual needs.
- Support budget holders with the management of their budgets by providing financial advice and guidance in line with our financial regulations and other financial processes to make sure the operational requirements of the organisation are met.
- Make sure that all financial transactions are recorded accurately.
- Assist with monthly reconciliation of key budget risk areas, as required.

**Annual accounts**:

- Assist with annual accounts

**Reconciliations/Ledger Maintenance**:

- Prepare monthly reconciliations for suspense and control accounts as required
- Investigate any discrepancies and if necessary, report them to the appropriate officer.
- Raise ad hoc payments through banking system.
- Responsible for obtaining daily transaction and bank reports.
- Input of financial information to the SEAS (Oracle) accounting system, including preparing ledger journals.

**Other Tasks**:

- Assist in providing advice and best practice guidance to budget holders and other stakeholders in the organisation.
- Assist in providing learning and ongoing support to non-finance staff in budgetary control.
- Support consistent and high quality practice within the team.

**Essential skills**:

- Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Packages
- Experience of undertaking reconciliations, eg bank reconciliation and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Excellent customer service and communication skills.
- Effective organisational and time management skills, able to manage own workload and prioritise work effectively to meet deadlines.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills with an appreciation of attention to detail
- Finance qualification, eg Association of Accounting Technician (AAT) qualification/degree
- Working knowledge of Oracle/SEAS accounting system.
- Experience of working in a public sector environment.
- Ability to understand the limits of their knowledge and experience and when to refer decisions to others.

This roles requires a STANDARD Police Act Disclosure


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