Job title: Finance Officer
Salary: £31,938 - £35,328
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office)
Contract: Permanent
About us
We are the national regulator and scrutiny body responsible for providing assurance and protection for people who experience care services, their families, carers and the wider public, as well as supporting delivery partners to improve the quality of care for people in Scotland. Our vision is that people across Scotland experience high quality care that meets their needs, rights and choices.
We are a scrutiny body that supports improvement. We inspect individual care services and we also work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people are experiencing in their local areas.
Our desire is to achieve an effective and balanced way of working, that enables us to meet organisational needs and achieve a work-life balance that promotes wellbeing and collaboration opportunities. Our hybrid working policy gives you the flexibility to mix working from home with attendance at your base office and other work locations, spending no more than 60% of your working time working from home, measured over a 4-week period.
About the role
We are looking to recruit to the role of Finance Officer within our Accounting and Budgeting Team.
Working in a busy team you will:
- help prepare the annual Care Inspectorate budget
- perform monthly reconciliations for suspense, control accounts, bank accounts and monthly fees
- support budget holders with the management of their budgets
- help train and develop finance and non-finance staff
- help produce our statutory annual accounts
- prepare information for financial or statistical returns
About you
You will have a thorough knowledge of integrated financial accounting systems and an understanding of financial controls and financial environment. You will have good judgement and decision-making skills. In addition, you must have excellent IT skills, be able to work to tight deadlines in an organised manner and be able to work effectively as part of a team.
You should hold a finance related qualification (eg HNC, AAT), although candidates with significant relevant experience may be considered.
The successful candidate will be expected to travel to HQ Dundee and on occasion to other offices in Scotland as required.
Next steps
You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification.
If you would like more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Dawn Johnston at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
If you believe that your skills, experience and motivation make you a suitable candidate for this post, please complete an online application form by 08:00 on Monday 11 November 2024.
It is anticipated that interviews will be held week commencing 2 December 2024.