Finance Operations Specialist

UK Shared Business Services Ltd; Swindon, Billingham, Newport; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

UK Shared Business Services Ltd in Swindon, Newport or Stockton is seeking a Finance Associate within the Finance Service Delivery team. This role covers high-volume transactional finance activities across areas such as AP, AR, Payments, or General Ledger to support service delivery for our clients.

The role requires strong numerical and analytical skills, proficiency in Excel, attention to detail, and the ability to meet deadlines in a performance-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Understanding of financial processes and accounting principles (e.g. double entry, reconciliations).
• Strong numerical and analytical skills for financial data interpretation.
• Proficient in Excel or equivalent tools with data manipulation.
• Ability to investigate and resolve financial discrepancies using structured analysis.
• Good attention to detail and high accuracy.
• Able to manage workload and meet deadlines in a performance-driven environment.
• First class written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain financial reconciliations, including balance sheet accounts.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies, identifying reconciling items and clear within timelines.
• Prepare and process financial journals, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards.
• Analyse financial data to identify trends, variances and issues for reporting and decision-making.
• Support production of financial reports, including period-end outputs and statutory reporting.
• Manage and resolve queries from stakeholders and clients.
• Collaborate with internal teams and clients to align financial data and resolve issues.
• Apply financial controls and governance requirements; ensure audit readiness.
• Support audit activity with information and documentation as required.
• Manage own workload, prioritising tasks to meet deadlines and SLAs.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of processes and controls.
• Maintain documentation including desk notes and process guidance.

Skills

Numerical skills

Analytical skills

Excel proficiency

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Workload management

Tools

Excel

Job description

Finance Associate - Finance Service Delivery

Swindon, Newport, or Stockton

Band C: Salary - £27,756

It's an exciting time to be part of UKSBS as we transform our business to be the leading UK public sector business service provider. We aim to become a very different organisation over the next few years as we move to a modern multi-platform, digitally enabled organisation.

Due to continued growth, we are now seeking experienced Finance Specialists to join our Finance Service Delivery team.

The teams across Finance Service Delivery process a range of financial transactions and ensure procedures and processes are followed to deliver a high-quality service to our clients.

You will be working as part of a high performing team managing high volumes on a daily basis, this could be in one of a variety of Finance roles, like Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payments Team or general ledger Team, to support the delivery of key transaction services to our clients.

Duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Produce and maintain financial reconciliations, including balance sheet accounts, ensuring accuracy and completeness
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies, identifying reconciling items and taking appropriate action to clear within agreed timelines
• Prepare and process financial journals, ensuring adjustments are accurate, supported and compliant with accounting standards
• Analyse financial data, identifying trends, variances and issues to support reporting and decision‑making
• Support production of financial reports, including period-end outputs and statutory reporting requirements
• Manage and resolve queries, acting as a point of contact for finance-related questions from stakeholders and clients
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and clients to ensure timely resolution of issues and alignment of financial data
• Apply financial controls and governance requirements, ensuring compliance with policies, audit requirements and regulatory standards
• Support audit and assurance activity, providing information, explanations and documentation as required
• Manage own workload, prioritising tasks to meet deadlines, SLAs and reporting cycles
• Contribute to continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to improve processes, controls and efficiency
• Maintain accurate documentation, including desk notes and process guidance

To be considered for the role, you will need the following:

• Understanding of financial processes and accounting principles (e.g. double entry, reconciliations)
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with ability to interpret and present financial data
• Proficiency in Excel or equivalent tools, including formulas and data manipulation
• Ability to investigate and resolve financial discrepancies using structured analysis
• Good attention to detail and ability to maintain high accuracy
• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines in a performance-driven environment
• First class written and oral communication skills

Artificial Intelligence:

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn.

Successful candidates may be required to undergo Security Clearance (National Security Vetting) as part of their employment. To meet these standards, applicants must normally have lived in the UK for at least the last five years and be able to satisfy background, identity and criminal record checks.

We are UKSBS. We are creating a place where people love to work, a culture where we lead, we change, we deliver and we empower our people to be curious, take action and add value.

We look forward to hearing from you.