Assistant Finance Manager

Edinburgh Permanent £46,000 - £54,000 per year
  • Excellent permanent position with the leading national organisation
  • Hybrid working, progressive organsiation going through a period of change.

About Our Client

Leading organisation in the UK within their Sector.

Job Description

To contribute to the Financial Plan through provision of costing information, financial advice on potential developments and their implications.

To investigate complex financial enquiries through the analysis of data from a variety of sources, providing meaningful performance management information for use at clinical and board level and articulate the implications of the data to managers.

Develop effective partnerships with operational managers and staff, and with finance colleagues across the various finance functions, to enable effective communication of finance developments eg improvements in reporting and benchmarking data in support of service management.

The post holder is managerially accountable to a Finance Manager and is expected to make autonomous decisions on a daily basis including advice to operational and clinical staff regarding financial matters. The control environment predetermines a number of the time-scales e.g. monthly and annual reporting cycles.

The post holder will be required to determine the priorities for their role and to manage their own workload to achieve daily, weekly and monthly deadlines.

Objectives will be agreed annually with the manager of the post holder. The post holder is responsible for ensuring delivery of those objectives within the statutory obligations of the post.

The Successful Applicant

Qualified Accountant or experienced Part Qual/ QBE level candidates.

Experience of managing a range of staff.

Experience of financial aspects of service redesign, change management, scenario costings.

Continued professional development should have been undertaken since qualification

Ability to communicate complex financial information to financial and non-financial managers.

Advanced IT skills, including advanced use of Word and Excel.

Organisational skills to ensure competing priorities are achieved to agreed timescales.

Excellent inter-personal and an ability to deal with employees at all levels.

Highly developed analytical skills.

Communication, report writing and presentational skills.

What's on Offer

A strong salary and benefits package is available for the successful candidate to operate on a Hybrid working basis in Edinburgh.

Contact
Alastair Riley
Quote job ref
JN-092023-6168508
Phone number
+44 131 243 2921

Job summary

Job function
Accounting
Subsector
Finance Manager
Sector
Public Sector
Location
Edinburgh
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Alastair Riley
Consultant phone
+44 131 243 2921
Job reference
JN-092023-6168508