Operations Assistant - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

UE04:
£22,630 - £24,715 Per Annum.

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.

Open Ended Contract - Permanent: Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to recruit a full time, open ended Operations Assistant.

The Opportunity:

The post holder will be supporting the organisation, management and operation of the school finance function, ensuring a consistent and effective customer service to staff and students across the school.

The post holder will be responsible for a wide range of transaction support, financial processes oversight and the provision of financial information for a variety of stakeholders across the school.

They will be contributing to the continuous development and improvement of the school services function.

The post holder will actively support and contribute to the schools success and will be encouraged to also deliver ideas for continuous improvement opportunities as they arise.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Vocational qualifications (N/SVQ 2/3, ONC or equivalent) plus relevant work experience or School education to Standard grade or equivalent plus relevant work experience.
Demonstrable experience of working and responding to queries and dealing with unforeseen problems and circumstances.
Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel and Outlook. Confident in use of databases and reporting systems with the ability to understand and interpret quantities of data.
Ability to develop an understanding of the University's structure, processes and procedures, the business of the School, and the wider HE environment as necessary.
Competent numeracy and literacy skills.

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Application information:

We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until _after _an offer has been made).

As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits
pension scheme ,
staff discounts, family friendly initiatives
, flexible working and much more.

Access our staff benefits page
for further information and use our reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
right to work webpages.