Finance Business Planning and Systems Officer

**Details**: **Reference number**: - 262471**Salary**: - £33,120 - £37,936**Job grade**: - Higher Executive Officer- Band D**Contract type**: - Permanent**Business area**: - Finance**Type of role**: - Finance**Working pattern**: - Full-time**Number of jobs available**: - 1Contents Location About the job **Benefits**: Things you need to know Location - Crown Office, EdinburghAbout the job **Job summary**: - This is an exciting opportunity to join the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), Scotland’s only prosecution service. We receive reports about crimes from the police and other reporting agencies and then decide what action to take, including whether to prosecute someone. We also look into deaths that need further explanation and investigate allegations of criminal conduct against police officers.**Job description**: **General Responsibilities, Activities and Duties** As Finance Business Planning and Systems Officer, you will be a key member of the Finance Division and will report to one of the Finance Business Partner’s. You will also work closely with colleagues within the Finance team who deliver financial accounting functions. **Role Specific Responsibilities, Activities and Duties** **Payroll** - Process the payroll file from the payroll supplier each month and ensure it is uploaded to the Finance system within the set timescales. - Review BACS report ensuring it reconciles with the payroll report each month - Issue payroll reports to each part of the organisation in conjunction with the Finance Business Planners (FBPs) **Balance Sheet reconciliations** - Review and reconcile all relevant Balance Sheet account codes each month identifying and following up queries with HR. **Support to Finance Business Partners /Head of Management Accounting and Planning** - Provide support to FBPs by investigating queries, running ad hoc reports through Q&A in Excel - Assist with future costs modelling - Review historical trend spend to assist with future decision making - Review transaction reports for accuracy - Data analysis and interpretation - Assist with compilation of year end statutory accounts for both Kings’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (KLTR) and COPFS as required **VAT** - Carry out initial VAT control checks to ensure correct VAT treatment working with the Finance Manager in the Financial Accounting Team **Fixed Asset Maintenance** - Provide support to the Finance Manager in Financial Accounting Team by inputting asset information to the finance system each month and ensuring the associated workbooks are updated. **Person specification**: **Essential Criteria Required** - Possession of a part qualification, either qualified Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) or part qualified CCAB Accountants; - Experience of Financial Accounting and Management Accounting - Good knowledge of business planning and budget monitoring; - Excellent communication skills; - Experience of working with accounting and other software preferably including Sun Accounting system and Q&A; and electronic purchase ordering system - Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products including the use of Excel to an advanced level. **Desirable Criteria** - Experience or understanding of public sector budgets **Benefits**: We offer an excellent range of benefits which include: - 25 days paid holiday + 11.5 public and privilege holidays (rising to 30 days paid holiday after 4 years). - Flexible working hours and family friendly approach to work, including the ability for home working. - Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loans. - Employee Wellbeing Support with Mental Health First Aiders and access to an Employee Assistance Programme. Things you need to know **Selection process details**: **Contact Us** **Additional Information** Please note that we do not accept CVs. Selection will be competency based. We are an Equal Opportunities Employer. Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has ongoing measures and guidance in its response to Covid-19 (Coronavirus), and would like to advise applicants that a decision has been taken that all interviews and any other discussions in the process must be conducted in a virtual/remote setting. In order to facilitate this way of working, COPFS asks all applicants to ensure that they have a suitable space to participate in the virtual interview and discussions as well as access to a personal device of choice by which you can undertake the interview/assessment if selected. Please ensure that your personal Wi-Fi/Broadband capacity will be sufficient to carry both audio and video. Please note that COPFS has exemptions from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974). COPFS must also adhere to strict Civil Service and Cabinet Office Baseline Personnel Security Standards regarding nationality, identity and history verification rules. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**: - Peopl