Job title: Accountant

Attibutes

Experience

Essential:

  • Demonstrable experience in a Finance environment.
  • Experience of managing and leading a team.

Desirable:

  • Knowledge of process improvement and LEAN techniques.
  • Experience and knowledge of Public Sector.

Education, qualifications and training

Essential:

  • Educated to SCQF level 9
  • Membership of the Association of Accounting Technicians or part qualification with a Committee of Consultative Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) or equivalent.

Desirable:

  • Membership of a CCAB accounting body.

Skills and knowledge

Essential:

  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel.
  • A thorough knowledge of integrated financial accounting systems
  • Accounting expertise in interpreting and applying accounting standards and guidance and other resource information.
  • Experience of working in a business partnering role to support budget managers
  • Ability to prepare financial reports.
  • Annual Accounts preparation.
  • Budgeting and budgetary control.
  • Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
  • Good judgement and decision-making skills.
  • Ability to analyse numerical and written information and present results in a clear and concise format.
  • Concise and clear oral, written and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines.
  • Planning and organisation skills.

Desirable:

  • Oracle financial systems experience.
  • Experience of a coaching culture and using coaching to support staff.

Key performance outcomes

Effective communication

Essential:

  • Articulate and positive communicator on a 1-1 basis and in larger groups.
  • Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to adapt communication to suit different audiences.
  • Ability to explain complex financial information to a range of audiences including non-specialists.
  • Listens to feedback and ideas from others and takes appropriate and considered action.

Impact and influence

Essential:

  • Demonstrates ability to influence at all levels.
  • Ability to give realistic advice, based on relevant, up to date and verifiable information.
  • Evidence of building positive relationships, engaging and collaborating effectively with others internally and externally.

Improvement focus

Essential:

  • Identifies gaps in process and performance and makes appropriate suggestions for improvements.
  • Aware of trends and changes and maintains professional knowledge and skills.
  • Uses knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information in order to make appropriate changes and improvements.

Objective decision-making:

Essential:

  • Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.
  • Ability to make appropriate and realistic judgments, based on professional expertise, relevant, up to date and verifiable information.
  • Ability to analyse complex information.

Planning and organising

Essential:

  • Involves others where appropriate and optimises resources to achieve desired results.
  • Regularly reviews joint goals and targets and reprioritises where necessary.
  • Recognises the need to be flexible in order to meet changing priorities.

Team working

Essential:

  • Contributes to and supports the work and decisions of the team.
  • Contributes to the shared vision and purpose and shares this effectively.
  • Works collaboratively with a wide range of teams across the Care Inspectorate.

Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.