Rutherford cross is delighted to be partnering with the Scottish Parliament to appoint a Senior Business Accountant.
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body is responsible for providing the Scottish Parliament with the property, staff, and services required for the Parliament’s purposes. They place a high value on excellence and are continually looking to improve how they can deliver the Parliament's core purpose of representing the people of Scotland by debating issues of national importance, passing legislation, and holding the Scottish Government to account. The Scottish Parliament has a diverse workforce, and their embedded values shape the way that they work and treat each other. They have created a culture of respect and inclusion, and everyone has the ability to make a difference.
Main responsibilities:
1. Providing the Chief Financial Officer, Head of Finance, Finance team leaders, and other business area heads with clear, concise, useful, and timely support, advice, and information in respect of financial data, financial management, and finance systems.
2. Leading the annual budget setting exercise for the Scottish Parliamentary Service (SPS) by liaising with budget managers across the organisation, collating data, reviewing and challenging budget bids, drafting initial budget asks, and preparing fully evidenced, clear and concise explanations for any significant changes.
3. Ensuring that Oracle EPM (budgeting and forecasting) data is accurate, up to date, and credible by ensuring that the system is updated timeously to reflect the financial impact of any intelligence gathered from business partners.
4. Providing specialist financial input to and challenging the assumptions contained within business cases that are presented by Business Areas to specialist groups such as the Investment Advisory Group and other Project Boards.
5. Anticipating the needs of the overall business and key stakeholders, constructively challenging and assisting colleagues with ongoing financial decision-making to ensure optimal outcomes for the organisation.
6. Supporting continuous system development and innovation by identifying potential improvements, carrying out testing, and drafting guidance in conjunction with the Finance Systems Lead.
7. Actively contributing to a collaborative working environment by seeking out and consulting colleagues where appropriate and by encouraging constructive discussion and participative decision-making from all key stakeholders.
8. Managing, motivating, coaching, and developing your direct line report(s), ensuring that they are given the opportunity to grow their skills, contribute effectively to the achievement of their role, the aims of the Finance Office, and the Scottish Parliament.
9. Agreeing and monitoring workload and deliverables for your direct report, ensuring that the team can deliver high-quality output whilst maintaining an appropriate work-life balance.
10. Leading the Business Support accounting team to be the best it can be by proactively seeking out best practice business partnering ideas, obtaining, and acting on feedback from business colleagues and ensuring that the Finance Office is viewed as a supportive centre of professional excellence.
11. Establishing positive and effective relationships with financial and non-financial colleagues that may be internal or external to the organisation and at all levels of seniority within the organisation.
12. A flexible and adaptive leadership style that underpins a commitment to equality and diversity and values colleagues’ differing areas of skills, strength, and expertise.
Key requirement: Fully qualified accountant that has previous exposure to management accounts.
Salary on offer: £56,875
Benefits to highlight: 28% pension, Hybrid working (2 days on site), Flexitime.
Scottish Parliament is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.
For more information on the role, please contact Nadia Stahl at Rutherford Cross: nadiastahl@rutherfordcross.com.
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