Finance Assistant

Renfrewshire Council; Paisley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in Paisley is seeking a finance assistant to provide comprehensive financial support within the Housing Repairs and Investment Team. Candidates should have experience in local authority financial services, particularly in budget monitoring and reporting. Excellent IT skills and communication abilities are essential. An SVQ Level 3 is required, with a commitment to further qualifications. This position may also require a Disclosure Scotland check.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing financial services in a local authority environment.
• Ability to analyse financial variances.
• Experience in preparing financial reports and briefing notes.

Responsibilities

• Provide finance support across the Housing Repairs and Investment Team.
• Manage budget monitoring, purchase orders, and invoices.
• Raise invoices to tenants and owners.

Skills

Budget monitoring

Communication skills

IT skills

Financial reporting

Education

SVQ Level 3 in a relevant subject

HND in a relevant discipline

Tools

MS Office

ERP systems

Business intelligence software

Job description

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The finance assistants will be a key post in providing a range of finance support services across the Housing Repairs and Investment Team, including supporting the effective financial administration of the team including budget monitoring, purchase orders and invoices, coupled with raising invoices to tenants and owners and developing and enhancing financial efficient financial processes in the team.

It is essential that you have previous experience of providing financial services in a local authority environment, particularly budget monitoring, extracting information from financial and operational management systems and analysing financial variances. You must have experience of working across a range of services in a housing environment and experience in preparing financial reports or briefing notes for managers and budget holders.

Effective communication skills, in particular dealing with members of the public, is an essential requirement, coupled with excellent IT skills, including but not limited to MS Office.

You must be able to demonstrate motivation and enthusiasm, be able to organise your own workload, manage competing priorities, work to deadlines and provide written and verbal information to a wide range of stakeholders.

Previous experience of accounts payable, credit control and issuing invoices to customers is desirable, as is specialist IT knowledge of ERP systems, business intelligence software and process automation. A knowledge of the wider local authority housing financial environment is beneficial.

An SVQ Level 3 in a relevant subject is essential, coupled with a commitment to work towards an accounting or business qualification, is essential. An HND in a relevant discipline is desirable.

If successful, you will be required to undertake a Disclosure Scotland check, the level of check will be determined by the duties of the post. If you would like further information in relation to the Disclosure Scotland checks, please visit www.disclosurescotland.co.uk .

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