Finance Transactions

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

- 324944**Salary**:

- £28,000 - £33,600- National: £28,000 min - £29,400 max, London: £32,000 min - £33,600 max**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Capabilities and Resources Group**Type of role**:

- Finance**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Croydon - Apollo House, Manchester - Soapworks, Sheffield - Vulcan HouseAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair, and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counterterrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports. Every day, our teams across the UK and beyond deliver outcomes to improve citizens’ lives. Our work is challenging, high profile and rewarding.

The Finance Directorate is one of the most dynamic and forward-looking places to work. We provide professional finance advice and challenge which ensures that the Home Office delivers value for money to the taxpayer and protects the Accounting Officers in their responsibilities for regularity, propriety, value for money and feasibility on all spending decisions. We ensure that finance is at the heart of decision making and operate a business partner model to support strategic planning, operational control and by working within challenging budgets through effective financial reporting, management and planning.

We value every person who works in the Finance Directorate and have high expectations of everyone. We offer opportunities for our staff to develop whether through formal training, on the job development or lateral moves to develop new skills. We support staff who wish to achieve a finance qualification with paid study leave and exam support.

The Home Office Finance group is dedicated to promoting equality and valuing diversity. We are committed to ensuring that every talented and hard-working person can rise to the top, whatever their background and whoever they are.

**Job description**:
The purpose of the role is to ensure that you are working to support the long-term strategy of the travel and expense workstream:
The role requires the post holder to manage their workload, to meet service level agreements, whilst ensuring that corporate targets are delivered.

The post holder will play a key role in developing a deserved reputation for excellent customer service.

In line with HO Hybrid Working policy, this post can be based at any of the locations listed and there will be flexibility to adopt a hybrid working pattern which would see the post holder spend 40% of their week in the office, with the remainder working from home.

Due to business requirements, this post is part-time only (28 hours per week). Flexible working is available.

Travel in the UK, with occasional overnight stays, may be necessary.

**Person specification**:
The post holder will be responsible for the following key tasks - each role will include some but not all of the following, dependent upon the balance of work and business requirements:

- Providing responses to queries from the expense auditors in relation to, ‘out of policy’, staff expenses
- Providing advice to Home Office business units on travel, expenses, gifts and hospitality, policy related queries
- Travel and Expense (T&E) card queries, and considering requests to increase the T&E card limit
- Manual expense claim form service requests
- The Corporate Travel Management Joiners, Leavers and Movers process
- Supporting all areas of the Home Office P2P Processes, including quality assurance of requisitions, holds resolution, and call centre queries
- The post holder may be required to undertake additional responsibilities as expected in relation to the role and grade.

**Essential skills**

Excellent Customer Service skills
- Ability to manage workload, ensuring service level agreements are met
- Working knowledge of MS Office suite, as a minimum intermediate excel skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills.

**Desirable criteria**
- Experience with financial and / or finance transactional systems to record, report and monitor financial transactions
- Experience of working in a team, in a fast paced environment
- Good knowledge of public sector finance processes and procedures
- Experience of using Oracle Business Intelligence
- Experience of working in a policy area and documenting processes.

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

- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Managing a Quality Service

**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%

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**Selection process details**:

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