Business Support Officer - 12 month contract -Edinburgh - £165 per day via umbrella
One of Loriens leading Public Sector Clients are looking for a highly experienced Business Support Officer to join their team on an initial 12 month contract.
Key duties and responsibilities will include governance, finance and corporate services administration work.
Responsibilities
• Financial transactions processing via the Oracle Finance System,including raising purchase orders, payment of invoices and grant payments, and card purchases, monitoring budgets and reports as part of the Finance Team.
• Managing and monitoring of project management documentation.
• Supporting the Director of Operations and Partnerships on information flows, statutory reporting, and project management of discrete pieces of project work as required which will span across business functions.
• Support the maintenance, monitoring and development of the Governance activities tracker including expenses, travel, benefits, information and holiday systems.
• Provide administrative support across the Directorates as required and agreed with the Finance, Governance & Corporate Services Manager to ensure tasks are delivered on time and of good quality, through developing a sound knowledge of relevant operational policies and procedures to ensure compliance is maintained.
Essentials:
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills and confidence in engaging with a range of people at all levels.
* Ability to organise and collate robust information from a variety of sources in decision making, sharing knowledge.
* Excellent organisation skills and ability to work under own initiative to manage competing priorities and demands when working in a very busy and fast paced environment.
* Experience and ability of building relationships and working collaboratively
* strong IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Word and Excel
* Ideally experience of working with the Oracle finance system