Junior Finance Business Partner
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Aberdeen, is currently looking to recruit a Junior Finance Business Partner for an initial 12 month contract on a rate of £19.10/hour PAYE. This role will be hybrid working.
Responsibilities:
– Support the Senior Finance Business Partner and wider team in budget planning and control, ensuring timely, accurate, and relevant financial reporting, draft budget preparation, and year-end accounts.
– Review budget monitoring returns, checking forecasts, year-to-date actuals, and budget data, and challenge areas requiring clarification to ensure robust financial oversight.
– Produce monthly financial monitoring reports and forecasts for branches, highlighting issues to inform senior management decision-making.
– Build and maintain effective working relationships with branch staff and wider colleagues.
– Review monthly expenditure for allocated branches, compare Oracle finance system data, identify accruals, prepayments, and adjustments, and process journals as required.
– Assist with financial ledger updates, including performing monthly reconciliations.
– Contribute to continuous improvement, value for money, and best practice in financial processes across the organisation.
– Create requisitions for goods and services in the Oracle purchasing system, confirm receipt of goods/services, and validate invoices for payment.
– Assist in maintaining overall financial control, ensuring the integrity of financial data, systems, and records.
– Ensure adequate financial controls and clear audit trails are in place to support accounting and reporting processes.
– Work flexibly across the team, adapting quickly to changing priorities and business needs.
Essential Skills:
– Experience in management accounts or currently studying for an accountancy qualification or holding a numerical/business degree.
– Budgeting, Forecasting and Costing (Understanding of budgeting guidance. Budget management. Understanding forecasting. Understanding costing) – Awareness Level.
– Working with Data in Finance (Data analysis. Data interpretation. Data visualisation. Interrogation of finance systems) – Working Level.
– Basic finance skills (Numeracy. Excel) – Practitioner Level.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Support the Senior Finance Business Partner and wider team in budget planning and control, ensuring timely, accurate, and relevant financial reporting, draft budget preparation, and year-end accounts.
– Review budget monitoring returns, checking forecasts, year-to-date actuals, and budget data, and challenge areas requiring clarification to ensure robust financial oversight.
– Produce monthly financial monitoring reports and forecasts for branches, highlighting issues to inform senior management decision-making.
– Build and maintain effective working relationships with branch staff and wider colleagues.
– Review monthly expenditure for allocated branches, compare Oracle finance system data, identify accruals, prepayments, and adjustments, and process journals as required.
– Assist with financial ledger updates, including performing monthly reconciliations.
– Contribute to continuous improvement, value for money, and best practice in financial processes across the organisation.
– Create requisitions for goods and services in the Oracle purchasing system, confirm receipt of goods/services, and validate invoices for payment.
– Assist in maintaining overall financial control, ensuring the integrity of financial data, systems, and records.
– Ensure adequate financial controls and clear audit trails are in place to support accounting and reporting processes.
– Work flexibly across the team, adapting quickly to changing priorities and business needs.
Essential Skills:
– Experience in management accounts or currently studying for an accountancy qualification or holding a numerical/business degree.
– Budgeting, Forecasting and Costing (Understanding of budgeting guidance. Budget management. Understanding forecasting. Understanding costing) – Awareness Level.
– Working with Data in Finance (Data analysis. Data interpretation. Data visualisation. Interrogation of finance systems) – Working Level.
– Basic finance skills (Numeracy. Excel) – Practitioner Level.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
