Finance Support Administrator

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Blue Arrow Full time

Blue Arrow are currently recruiting for a Finance Support Administrator for our public sector client based in Edinburgh city centre. This is a 23 month contract, with an organisation who are providing an extremely important service to the Scottish public. The Operations Team provide a wide range of support services to all departments within the organisation, with the main areas being Finance, Procurement, Business Management, Executive and Management Support, Property, Training, IT and Programme Management.

The successful candidate would work with the Finance Team and the Business Support Team to support the organisations objectives. This is a unique opportunity to work with a broad range of stakeholders.

Main duties/responsibilities:

  • Support the smooth running of day-to-day financial processes, managing workloads and priorities to ensure that a high-quality service is delivered to internal and external stakeholders. This will include managing the finance mailbox, processing purchase orders and invoices, identifying and resolving issues and employing judgement and financial knowledge and experience to identify errors.
  • Responsibility for carrying out control and quality assurance procedures over financial transactions, including staffing costs updates, identifying mis-posted items, and supporting monthly reconciliations
  • Process financial transactions using judgement and financial experience to ensure correct financial coding and challenging supporting evidence to protect the integrity of financial records, ensuring that all processing complies with the requirements of the Scottish Public Finance Manual (SPFM).
  • Supporting financial improvement activity through identification of inefficiencies and potential improvements and working with the Finance Manager to ensure improvements are successfully implemented.
  • Providing resilience and support to the wider Business Management team with tasks such as booking meetings, reporting IT faults, Stationery and booking travel

Skills/experience:

  • Excellent administration and organisational skills, with experience of prioritising and managing a varied workload to meet deadlines effectively.
  • Motivated and well organised, you will have a proven track record of working effectively and flexibly as part of a team, and using your own initiative to work at times ensuring that targets are met.
  • Attention to detail and good IT skills with experience of using Microsoft Office and financial systems.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with confidence in engaging with Finance colleagues/stakeholders.

Blue Arrow is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to helping find great work opportunities for great people.


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