Business Support Officer

JR United Kingdom; Livingston; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector organisation is seeking a Business Support Officer for a hybrid role with an initial 12-month contract. Responsibilities include administrative support, finance management, and stakeholder coordination. The ideal candidate will possess strong IT skills, excellent communication abilities, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced administrative role.
• Ability to manage challenging workloads and competing priorities.
• Basic Disclosure Scotland check (costs covered by the organisation).

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support for corporate services including financial reports and compliance checks.
• Administer day-to-day finance requirements like purchase orders and invoices.
• Coordinate meetings and assist with stakeholder management.

Skills

Strong IT skills

Excellent communication skills

Organizational skills

Customer focus

Proactive approach

Job description

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Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Business Support Officer for an initial 12-month contract with potential to extend on a rate of c.£150-160/day (Inside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

Responsibilities:

• This role has been established to provide business support to help maintain the work of the Corporate Services & Communications
• Key duties and responsibilities will include working collaboratively and flexibly as part of the wider Team.
• The business support officer will provide support to deliver an effective and efficient organisation.
• Provide administrative support for general corporate service requirements, including information gathering and management, document retention and reporting, general correspondence, and routine compliance and monitoring checks, such as gathering carbon footprint data
• Administrate the day-to-day general finance requirements, including creating and submitting purchase order requests and invoices; supporting colleagues with electronic procurement card payments; checking invoices at risk; producing routine financial reports; and other ad-hoc requests
• assist with the organisation's internal and external stakeholder management, through the coordination of meetings
• Provide administrative support to the team, to ensure tasks are delivered on time and of the right quality, through developing a sound knowledge of relevant operational policies and procedures to ensure compliance is maintained
• Provide ad hoc administrative support to the wider Investigations, Compliance, Standards Team and the Strategy and Analysis team.
• To note: Oracle is the new finance, content management, and electronic record/document management system. All necessary training will be provided.
• Strong IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Word and Excel
• A strong customer focus, with excellent communication skills to work with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to work on your own with minimal supervision, manage challenging workloads and competing priorities, whilst maintaining attention to detail
• A proactive approach and the ability to use initiative to come up with solutions quickly when challenges arise
• The successful candidate to supply a basic Disclosure Scotland check on appointment. The costs of this will be covered by the organisation.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced administrative role.

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