Finance Manager and Financial Accountant Opportunities (4614)

Would you like to help manage around 50 billion of public spending to improve the lives of the people of Scotland?

The Scottish Government is recruiting finance professionals to join its Financial Management and Reporting team within Financial Management Directorate. Working at the heart of government, our teams enable Ministers and senior leaders to make informed decisions by supporting financial management, reporting, and governance across the organisation.

This is a unique opportunity to build your career in a collaborative and forward-looking finance function that supports around 50 billion of spending, and that is committed to developing the skills and expertise of its people.

Both Finance Manager and Financial Accountant opportunities are available, and so whether you are leading a finance team to provide strategic insights and advice, or delivering statutory reporting and controls, you will work with a wide range of stakeholders to manage financial challenges and opportunities, deliver high quality stewardship of public resources, and support delivery of government priorities.

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Finance Manager:

• Lead your Finance Teams budget monitoring activities, reinforcing required standards, identifying improvements and supporting development and training needs.
• Support continuous improvement of financial reporting, providing high quality and persuasive insights that enable stakeholders make informed decisions, and delivering appropriate challenge where required.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across the Financial Management Directorate, Scottish Government business areas, and partner bodies to provide professional advice on a range of finance topics and facilitate effective collaboration on corporate financial exercises.
• Lead and quality assure your Finance Teams contributions to the annual accounts and Provisional and Final Outturn in accordance with the corporate timetable.
• Build an effective and high performing team by providing support, coaching and guidance, delegating effectively, and by leading by example. 
• Support changes arising from the implementation and development of Oracle Cloud finance systems, embedding new ways of working and processes effectively. 

Financial Accountant:

• Support the preparation and delivery of the Scottish Government annual accounts, ensuring compliance with corporate timetables and requirements.
• Coordinate external audit activities, preparing required schedules and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely provision of information.
• Lead and support finance colleagues to deliver team priorities, including driving improvements to management information and reporting, and balance sheet controls.
• Provide accounting and financial management advice to build financial capability and support annual accounts and audit process improvements within your team and the Scottish Government.
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of transactions and reporting on financial systems, including the Non-Current Asset Register, maintaining effective checks and controls.
• Support changes arising from the implementation and development of Oracle Cloud finance systems, embedding new ways of working and processes effectively.

Success Profile:

Success profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of skills, experience and behaviours candidates will be assessed on.

Professional / Technical Skills:

• Government Finance - Practitioner Level
• Working with data in finance Practitioner Level
• Business and Organisation - Working Level

You can find out more about the skills required here: Finance Profession Capability Framework

Experience:

• Significant financial management experience, with a track record in delivering processes such as budgeting, forecasting and costing, or financial accounts

Behaviours:

• Communicating and influencing  - Level 3
• Making effective decisions - Level 3

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here Behaviour levels - Success profiles: candidate guide - gov.scot