Finance Officer

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

- 342518**Salary**:

- £34,000- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- UKEF - Financial Control Division**Type of role**:

- Finance**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- City of Westminster, London (region), SW1A 2HQAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- FCD is responsible for ensuring that proper financial control processes are in place and to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the financial statements and other published financial information, to satisfy the Accounting Officer’s responsibility with regard to regularity and propriety of UK Export Finance's dealings.**Job description**:
The Finance Officer will assist the Finance Manager to ensure that all cash transactions are booked and processed accurately and completely in the cashbook/GL in the most efficient manner; within agreed time frames and queries are resolved in a timely manner. They will enable other divisions to match receipts to the debtor on the admin systems, by providing timely and detailed information to those divisions. They will also ensure that the cashbooks are reconciled to the bank statements and the timing differences, including unmatched receipts, are aged/analysed, kept to a minimum and reported to management.

They will also report daily bank balances to management, analysing cash positions by currency to ensure sufficient currency is held for day-to-day needs, or trade for currency as required.

The cashier is also responsible for raising all payments including those to suppliers for departmental expenses and payments for claims accurately, in a timely manner and in accordance with UKEF payment policy.

**Person specification**:

- Input all receipts into both Receipt Management Database (RMD) and CODA. Provide documents numbers (ACBSRECT) for all accepted receipts in a timely manner.
- Upload bank statements to CODA for bank reconciliations.
- Daily Exchange Rate upload onto CODA.
- Reconcile the bank accounts and control accounts, post any adjustment journals into CODA and other required month-end activities. Analyse the bank timing differences and unmatched receipts.
- Raise miscellaneous sales invoices and match off transactions on CODA when the invoices have been settled.
- To process all payments (BACS, CHAPS, cheques, or Automated Transfers) accurately and timely to meet UKEF charter.
- To provide cover in the absence of fellow Finance Officer.
- Maintain effective working relationship with colleagues, other government departments and external financial institutions.
- Assist the Purchase Ledger team with invoice processing when required.

**This list is not exhaustive, and you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business needs.**

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £34,000, UK Export Finance contributes £9,180 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- 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%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.- Experience
- Ability
- Technical
- Behaviours

If you are successful following the sift stage, you will be invited to an initial interview; this will include the following assessment:

- Behaviours/Technical/Experience - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all four behaviours highlighted and your technical ability to successfully carry out the role.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:

- See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).- 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 the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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