Finance Officer

Working pattern: Our normal working week is 37 hours however we are happy to talk about flexible working. We're committed to supporting staff to achieve a healthy work-life balance. To meet business and personal needs, we have a progressive flexible working hours arrangement in place. As public engagement needs to be designed around the needs of participants, this post involves occasional weekend and evening work and travel to different parts of Scotland. We manage this flexibly across the team to take account of individual circumstances., The Scottish Parliament is looking for a skilled Finance Officer to join our Financial Accounting team. Finance is made up of 13 members of staff. To see where the office fits within our organisation,view our organisation chart.

The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body is responsible for providing the Parliament with the property, staff and services required for the Parliament's purposes. We place high value on excellence, and we are continually looking to improve how we work to ensure that we can deliver the Parliament's core purpose of representing the people of Scotland by debating issues of national importance, passing legislation and holding the Scottish Government to account. We are a diverse workforce, and our embedded values shape the way we work and treat each other. We have a culture of respect and inclusion, and everyone has the ability to make a difference.

This is a varied role within a friendly and motivated team and will give you a broad range of responsibilities and experience. Your responsibilities will include:

• Assisting with the preparation of statutory reporting and returns


• Providing the Parliament with financial knowledge and high levels of customer service


• Assisting the Financial Accountant with other ad-hoc tasks


• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date financial accounts


You will also assist with the organisation's transition to a new finance system (Oracle Cloud). You will utilise your knowledge and problem-solving skills to help adapt our processes and maintain efficient and robust financial management.

We particularly welcome applications from candidates from a Minority Ethnic background and Disabled candidates. All appointments will be made on merit. We have a values-based culture of respect and inclusion embedded in our organisation, and everyone has the ability to make a difference.,
• Please provide evidence against each of our four values, a maximum of 400 words is allowed per value.


• Please use the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to address the key delivery requirements under each value in the Job Description.


• Each value should be clearly formatted, and your examples may include specific skills, experience, abilities, knowledge and strengths you have.


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• Please do not input anything into the values boxes until you're ready to submit your application.


• Please complete your answers to the questions offline, perhaps in Word, and then copy and paste your answers into the system when you're ready to submit your application.


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  The successful candidate will have detailed knowledge and experience of applying finance policies and procedures. You'll have experience of posting transactions, completing reconciliations, and preparing statutory returns.


You'll have great communication skills and build positive working relationships. You'll enjoy working collaboratively as part of a small finance team to deliver organisational objectives.

You'll also have excellent organisation, analytical skills, and attention to detail. You'll be confident in using finance systems and spreadsheets to analyse and communicate to a range of stakeholders. Experience with Oracle Cloud would be advantageous.

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• Temporary Finance Officer, Full time for 12 months, We offer a great range of benefits including: 41.5 leave days (including public holidays), flexible working, paid professional subscriptions, family-friendly policies, Season Ticket advance loans, an onsite gym, Health and Wellbeing Schemes including discounted gym membership, a confidential counselling and information service, and the Cycle to Work Scheme.


You'll also have the opportunity to join the Alpha Civil Service pension scheme, where we'll offer you an employer contribution of up to 27.9% of your basic salary.