Finance Manager - HQ

Scottish Prison Service; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The Scottish Prison Service is seeking a Finance Manager to join their Headquarters team. This role involves delivering financial support, ensuring data integrity, and collaborating with senior management on financial strategies. Candidates should possess a CCAB qualification and have experience in financial management, planning, and reporting.

Benefits

Civil Service Pension – employer contributions of 27.1% to 27.9%

Hybrid working policy

Opportunity for progression

Annual Leave – 37 days rising to 42 days

Sick Pay

Discounts on High Street stores and restaurants

Qualifications

• Possession of a CCAB accountancy qualification or in final year.
• Experience in management of control accounts and financial reconciliations.
• Proficient in budget/forecast setting, management, and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Deliver financial support to corporate directorate functions.
• Ensure integrity of financial data for all HQ directorates.
• Work closely with Directors to deliver financial plans.

Skills

Financial management

Financial planning

Financial reporting

Business improvement

Education

CCAB accountancy qualification

Job description

Salary: £50,221 - £53,607 per year

Contract Type: Permanent

Position Type: Full Time

Hours: 35 hours per week

Work From Home: Hybrid

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is an Agency of the Scottish Government, working in partnership with organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to deliver safe and secure custodial services that empower offenders to take responsibility and to fulfil their potential. We employ over 4500 people in a diverse range of professions across our 13 prisons, Headquarters and the SPS College.

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen within SPS Headquarters as we recruit for a Finance Manager to join the Team. As the finance manager within HQ is to deliver financial support to the functions of a corporate directorate. The role will work as part of a team of Finance Managers, with line responsibility for associated finance staff. This position helps ensure the integrity of financial data for all HQ directorates and help deliver financial understanding and scrutiny across all levels of the directorate.

This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with Directors and their senior management to help deliver financial plans, sharing knowledge and ideas, providing input into not only business as usual but also ad hoc project work and business case build up. The finance manager will confidently share knowledge, ideas and drive forward the finance agenda of strong financial management, risk, accountability and governance.

Your key responsibilities include Financial Management, Financial Reporting, Financial Planning, Project and Programme Management (PPM), People Management, Governance.

About you

If you have the following, we would like to hear from you:

• Possession of a CCAB accountancy qualification, or in final year of qualification. (Essential)
• Financial management- Experience in the management of control accounts and financial reconciliations. Proficient in budget/forecast setting, management and analysis.
• Financial Planning - Experience in the management of accounts payable and receivable ledgers, calculation of accruals and prepayments and variance analysis and understanding.
• Financial Reporting - Experience of report writing and briefing to inform organisational direction and delivery, using a variety of mediums.
• Business Improvement - Ability to assess and review information and recognise potential issues and the ability to interrogate and interpret financial/business data that will provide management information and support decision making.

Benefits on offer include (but are not limited to):

• An attractive Civil Service Pension – employer contributions of 27.1% to 27.9%
• Hybrid working policy – supporting flexibility in work arrangements
• Opportunity for progression
• Annual Leave – 37days rising to 42days
• Sick Pay
• Discounts on High Street stores, supermarkets and restaurants through our partners at Blue Light Card, Edenred and Civil Service Sports Council

For further information on this opportunity, including full job description, person specification, assessment process and to apply, please visit www.sps.gov.uk/careers .

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