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SalaryUE05 £25,742 to £29,605 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £27,979 to £32,332 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)
CSG / Finance Operations / Accounts Receivable
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Open-ended
Location: 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT
Hybrid working, currently expecting at least 2 days working on site
We are looking for a Senior Finance Assistant – Accounts Receivable.
The Opportunity:
We are looking for a Senior Finance Assistant to join our Accounts Receivable Team, which forms part of the Finance Operations team structure.
Finance Operations has been created as part of an organisational transformation programme and aims to provide a consistent, high-quality service to the University and external customers. The team brings together Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and banking activities into one expert team with consistent processes, systems and policies.
The Senior Finance Assistant will:
- Identify and resolve issues with Finance Operation processes in Receivables Ledgers.
- Identify and recommend changes to Finance Operations processes and procedures, ensuring an effective feedback loop for continuous improvement.
- Report on Finance Operations Service levels and key performance indicators.
Your skills and attributes for success:
You will be positive and extremely customer focused with good interpersonal and communication skills, great attention to details and the ability to deal confidently with a diverse customer base.
You should have solid credit control and sales ledger experience as well as strong IT skills, be able to work consistently to extremely tight deadlines whilst demonstrating a thorough understanding of financial controls.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Interviews will be held week commencing 19/02/2024.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About the Team
The Income Section is a highly motivated, enthusiastic group responsible for the timely collection of University income from students and customers, accurate transaction processing to the sales ledgers, maintenance of the customer account database, liaising with University departments and assisting with payment queries.
