Financial services accountant

Who are we looking for?

Your role

Your role as a Financial Services Accountant will be to ensure the continued close control of a number of financial services operations, ensuring a robust and effective financial governance process is maintained. You will become an integral and dependable part of the Financial Services Team, committed to supporting the organisation deliver its corporate objectives and ensure a strong sustainable future for the population of Fife.

You

You will be a qualified or part qualified Accountant with previous and demonstrable experience in a financial control role, or alternatively have significant comparable knowledge and experience gained from a recent transferable role.

You will have strong analytical skills and be able to confidently present highly complex financial information to a diverse finance and non-finance audience. You must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, inspire confidence, and develop effective working relations with both finance and non-finance colleagues. You will have significant experience of managing and working effectively as part of a team producing high quality financial information often to tight deadlines.

You will also need to have relevant financial control experience within a large or complex organisation along with current knowledge and experience of financial rules and statutory regulations which affect the public sector.

Background, informal enquiries and apply

This post offers an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to progress their finance career with an organisation that is committed to developing and improving services through innovation and pioneering work to meet the needs of our local population. We are committed to our staff to create the best place for them to work with one of our 4 key priorities being to improve staff experience and wellbeing.

We operate a flexible hybrid working pattern arrangement from home and in the office. Our office working is based in Fife House, Glenrothes, Fife.

For informal enquiries, please contact Kevin Booth, Head of Financial Services & Procurement at kevin.booth@nhs.scot.

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