Role: Assistant Finance Manager
Location: Edinburgh
Duration: 5 Months (initially)
Hybrid: 2-3 days in the office
We're looking for someone who can:
Support the operations of the team including,
- Ensuring regular deadlines are met, managing reconciliation issues.
- Working with the wider Financial Control team to ensure that process work efficiently and in a controlled manner.
- Contribute to the month end process, including the monthly balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation process.
- Including Integrity certification and the assurance of the ledger at month end.
- Take ownership of control issues or balance sheet breaks, ensuring that these are owned, and remediating action plans are in place.
- Collaborate closely with many internal teams including stakeholders in other GFS teams.
- In addition, there will be extensive liaison with Divisional Business and Operations teams, Finance Platform colleagues and external auditors.
- Supervise, support and coach junior colleagues in their operational tasks and wider development.
- Work with Finance Platform, and other Change teams to ensure that Financial Control matters are considered in Transformation, including managing the ongoing change impact on source system reconciliations.
- Develop personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities;
Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including the running of debrief meetings and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
Please apply with an up-to-date CV which must show evidence of the above to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you.
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