Assistant Director, Financial Management - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council

Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £56,409 - £66,531
Job grade:

Other
M1
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Finance
Working pattern:
Fulltime
Number of jobs available:
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EdinburghAbout the job

Job summary:

Assistant Director, Financial Management
Permanent, Full Time
Edinburgh/Hybrid

£56,409.00 to £66,531.00 per annum (M1 Grade)

Everything we do at the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) aims to create the right environment for colleges and universities to thrive individually and collectively.

The Scottish Funding Council is Scotland's tertiary education and research authority.

Our ambition is to make Scotland an outstanding place to learn, educate, research, and innovate - now and for the future.

So, naturally, we have a clear focus on recruiting the best people and developing them throughout their career.

We invest around £2 billion every year, and our funding enables colleges and universities to provide life-changing opportunities for over half a million people.

We're not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but also people who will connect with our guiding principles which include working in partnership, championing diversity, and supporting sustainability for future generations.

By fostering our guiding principles, we are very proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created.

We are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds:
we want our colleague base to reflect the people and communities that we serve.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Finance and Operations, you will lead the Budgeting & Reporting and the Payment & Procurement teams (nine people in total).

The postholder:

You will have had overall responsibility for the development and delivery of pro-active customer focussed financial and management accounting (spanning both running costs and programme funds, including capital) and procurement functions to ensure delivery of accurate management information and external reporting and guidance to internal stakeholders.

If this appeals to you and you can see yourself in this role, take a read through the job description below for further details.

Job description:

Key Responsibilities
- _Management of the production of annual accounts, responsibility for format, accounting policies and securing approvals._
- _Pro-active management and review of annual budget (for programme funds and running costs) including formal in-year re-forecasts before release to senior management._
- _Critically review management reports prepared for senior management and Council Committees ensuring significant issues are highlighted._
- _Main contact for internal and external audit on all financial and budgeting matters._
- _Overall management of month-end activities, approval of bank transactions and approval of drawdown requests._
- _Strong understanding of the Budgeting and Reporting and Financial Accounting functions including the ability to cover in the absence of Senior Budgeting and Reporting Officer._
- _Building an integrated team to manage the financial and management accounting and procurement functions, and ongoing management and development of that team._

Person specification:

Person specification
**It is important through your CV / Cover Letter that you give evidence of proven experience of each of the following essential criteria:
_Essential _
- _CAB accounting qualification or part-qualified with significant relevant experience covering both financial and management accounts._
- _High level analytical skills._
- _Proven leadership skills - to deal with change management and enable the teams to be developed and sustained creating a strong customer focussed team-working environment._
- _Strong written and oral communication skills including experience of explaining financial information to non-finance staff._
- _Flexibility, ability to co-ordinate a diverse range of priorities, and react positively to change._
- _Significant experience of finance and management accounting procedures and IT systems._
- _Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Word and Excel. _
- _Ability to manage and develop people_._

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Desirable:
_**- _Experience of SUN accounts and budget management packages_

Benefits:

Location
SFC offers hybrid working for its employees.

This means that whilst the role is based at our Edinburgh office, there is substantial opportunity to work from home most of the time.

As a rule of thumb SFC expects that a minimum of three days a month in the office (on average) will achieve the benefits of its hybrid approach, however it is for the employee and their line manager to agree the balance between home and workplace working - determined primarily by business need.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation