Finance Assistant Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE05: £24,285.00 - £27,929.00 Per Annum.
CMVM / MGPHS / USHER Institute.
Open Ended Contract - Permanent - Available from April 2023; Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.
The Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for an experienced Finance Assistant.
The Opportunity:
As an important member of the Institute’s finance team, the post holder will support the financial processing for the School’s operational budgets.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Vasilia Kakamouka, Research Finance & Business Support Manager ( [email protected] ).
Your skills and attributes for success:
1. Vocational qualifications (N/SVQ 3, ONC or equivalent), plus good work experience in a relevant role.
2. Pro-active approach to seeking out information, accuracy and attention to detail
3. Ability to plan, prioritise, take initiative and find proactive solutions, contribute new ideas to projects, work unsupervised, under pressure and multitask effectively
4. A good working knowledge of the Microsoft package, particularly Excel
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Please include your CV and a supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for this post.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
The post will be based in Teviot Place / Nine Bioquarter.
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