Finance Officer

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

- 376207**Salary**:

- £29,494- National Minimum £29,494
London Minimum £34,093- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- VOA - Practitioners - Chief Finance Officer Group**Type of role**:

- Accountancy
Finance**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Canary Wharf, Leeds, ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) are the public sector’s property valuation experts and advisers with a vision to be a world-leading provider of public sector valuations. Our work is vital to the collection of over £60 billion of revenue which goes back into communities, touching every citizen and every business across England and Wales.

We champion the values of professionalism, integrity, respect and innovation. We are committed to providing a collaborative and supportive working environment that encourages every colleague to contribute, grow and excel together. With opportunities to drive your own development and growth, we empower our colleagues to succeed by ensuring support at every step of their career journey.

**Job description**:
**Finance Officer - Role Overview**

The VOA is looking to recruit a Finance Officer within the Chief Finance Officer Group to support the delivery of key financial process and transactions for VOA.

This post will be an ideal development opportunity for someone with existing finance experience and wishing to develop their finance skills and career in the public sector. Additional training will be provided for this role and it is intended that you would gain a solid foundation understanding of key financial processes.

**Finance Officer - Key responsibilities**
- Preparing and uploading journals, ensuring effective audit trails and approvals.
- Performing month end closure activities including assurance review of credit card transactions, processing certain payment types.
- Performing monthly balance sheet reconciliations within agreed monthly deadlines.
- Accurately recording transactional / process level data and support an appropriate level of evidence collection.
- Responsible for effective reporting of aged debt profile and preparing and analysing other reports.
- Monitoring of shared inboxes to ensure queries are addressed and resolved efficiently and effectively.
- Assist with National Audit Office queries, ensuring audit evidence is robust and is provided in a timely and professional manner.
- Proactively solving problems and responding and ensuring remedial actions are taken.
- Managing elements of accounts receivable and accounts payable queries including processing of supplier refunds and associated issuance of VOA credit notes.
- Carrying out actions to ensure VOA Civil penalty income is correctly reflected in VOA ledgers.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Requirements**
- Experience of working in a busy finance capacity, including being familiar with month end finance processes.
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy of work.
- Ability to be flexible, prioritise and manage multiple tasks while strictly adhering to deadlines.
- Work at pace to resolve queries and provide solutions, taking responsibility for timely and quality outcomes.
- A high level of IT skills demonstrating good experience in working with Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to work with a range of stakeholders at all levels, communicating effectively to ensure delivery of outputs.
- In accordance with Government Finance Career Framework at least one of the following is required:
Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB or CIMA or equivalent

Working towards qualification with level 4 AAT, CCAB, CIMA or equivalent. You must be actively studying towards completing your accountancy qualification within 2 years.

**Desirable criteria**
- Current experience of working in finance systems such as SAP.

**Qualifications**:

- In accordance with Government Finance Career Framework at least one of the following is required:

- Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB or CIMA or equivalent
- Working towards qualification with level 4 AAT, CCAB, CIMA or equivalent. You must be actively studying towards completing your accountancy qualification within 2 years.**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £29,494, Valuation Office Agency contributes £8,544 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.We offer a range of flexible working options, a generous leave allowance that starts at 25 days and goes up to 30 days after 5 years’ service an