Senior Finance Specialist

UK SBS Ltd; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

UKSBS is seeking a Senior Finance Specialist to act as SME for General Ledger and support complex accounting queries within the Finance Services team. The role focuses on ensuring accurate financial processing for government clients, with emphasis on reconciliation, controls and continuous improvement.

The successful candidate will collaborate across UKSBS and client teams, lead year-end activities and contribute to major system changes, testing and training to ensure seamless integration and

Qualifications

• Finance role experience and any related qualification or accreditation.
• GCSE level including Maths and English; or equivalent ability.
• Strong understanding of double-sided accounting and GL processes.
• Experience in GL accounting, reconciliations and complex queries.
• Knowledge of Finance best practices and involvement in change programmes.
• Ability to explain accounting topics to non-finance stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel with complex formulas/macros.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME for the General Ledger, handling complex queries and escalations.
• Perform root-cause analysis of accounting, reporting and system issues.
• Review processes for continuous improvement and drive changes.
• Contribute to system changes, test plans and change integration.
• Lead client-facing activities like year-end negotiations and meetings.
• Build relationships with SMEs and leaders across UKSBS and clients.
• Support Head of Department with strategic projects and audits.

Skills

Double-entry accounting

General Ledger accounting

Finance process improvement

Explain accounting to non-finance

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Ability to work under pressure

Education

GCSE (Maths & English) or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Oracle

Job description

• Billingham, County Durham, United Kingdom
• Newport, United Kingdom

Job Description

Senior Finance Specialist

Swindon, Newport, or Stockton-on-Tees – flexible and hybrid working options

Band E - £42,730

It’s an exciting time to join 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.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Finance Services team, as we aim to continue to deliver a high-quality service in the processing of financial transactions on behalf of our Government clients.

Key responsibilities

• Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the General Ledger area, supporting the teams with complex queries, advice and training and dealing with client escalations.
• Carry out root-cause analysis to provide an understanding of accounting, reporting and system problems/anomalies.
• Review processes in line with continuous improvement objectives; identify areas where change could bring about efficiencies and take forward proposed improvements to completion.
• Input into system changes and major programmes, providing technical and process knowledge, identifying areas of concern and suggesting resolutions.Manage testing within the team and develop new processes to ensure that systems and change initiatives integrate smoothly into the teams.
• Take a leading role in client-facing activities such as year-end negotiations, review meetings and working groups.
• Build a good working relationship with SMEs, leaders and accountants across UKSBS and our client base, collaborating on issues and providing advice on accounting processes and impacts.
• Support Head of Department and Operations Managers with strategic planning, ad hoc projects, investigations and audits.

Qualifications and Requirements

• A proven track record of working within a Finance based role, ideally with a finance related qualification/accreditation
• Educated to GCSE level, including Mathematics and English, or proven ability to work at this level
• Excellent understanding of and experience working with double-sided accounting.
• High level of expertise in General Ledger accounting including all types of account reconciliation and complex accounting query resolution
• Excellent knowledge of Finance process best practice and ability to represent Finance in major change programmes.
• Ability to explain complex accounting issues to non-finance stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel knowledge including working with complex formulas and macros.
• Excellent numeracy and analytical skills
• Good organisational skills – the ability to multitask, prioritise and work to strict and tight deadlines.
• Effective at problem solving and dealing with complex queries.
• Ability to face challenges proactively and be comfortable and confident dealing with a diverse range of customers at all levels.
• Knowledge and experience of Oracle would be preferred
• Excellent relationship management skills, including the ability to influence

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 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.