Admin Specialist - Cost Centre Management

Overview

We are looking for one individual to join the team. In this role, you will support the Business Manager in overseeing Operational Business Unit budgets, ensuring financial management that is both robust and transparent. You'll work closely with cost centre managers and finance teams to keep budgets aligned with Service Level agreements (SLAs), including the timely submission of establishment lists and journal returns to Defra Group Finance.

As part of a team of Executive Officers (EOs), you will help manage cost centre codes across Business Units while contributing to the planning and delivery of finance and risk activities, leading on specific projects and audits when required. The role also calls for resilience and the ability to respond effectively to business continuity needs or disease outbreak situations.

• To support the Business Manager in the collation of all budget and forecasting. This includes financial management activities including requisition approvals, expenditure tracking, and income monitoring.
• To ensure that financial work processes are developed consistently and in line with policy. This includes investigation of financial variances, completing month-end financial tasks under tight deadlines.
• Take responsibility of overseeing the Administrative Officer (AO) work for month-end journals and ensure quality assurance before submission.
• To maintain internal controls to ensure financial evidence meets audit and compliance standards.
• Line and functional management responsibilities, including performance management, quality assurance and effective leadership.
• Do you thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment? Do you enjoy working to tight deadlines?

Disability Confident About Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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