Finance Manager

Job Summary

Ready to combine your financial expertise with your passion for leading people? As Assistant Finance Manager, you will play a key role in supporting Financial Operations, having management responsibility for financial reporting, treasury management, and ongoing engagement with key stakeholders. The role involves applying financial expertise, management skills, and a strong understanding of departmental objectives to ensure efficient processes, alignment with organisational standards, and delivery of value‑for‑money outcomes.

Galashiels, Scotland, TD1 3TE

The Scottish Public Pensions Agency is an Agency of the Scottish Government. It administers the pensions for employees in the National Health Service, Teachers’, Police and Fire‑fighters’ pension schemes in Scotland, managing over 640,000 members with annual payments of over £3.7 billion and related agency administration expenditure of about £31 million.

• Manage service delivery and monitor continuation of service.
• Become an expert in your own work area, providing advice to business units on financial processes and specific end‑to‑end processes.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of data in the finance system, and keep financial procedures fully documented and up to date.
• Oversee audit requests and provide prompt responses to PQs and FOIs.
• Support the ongoing provision of transaction processing services, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Cash Management.
• Identify potential improvements to finance processes, focusing on effectiveness and efficiency of financial operations.
• Review non‑compliance and monitor performance.

• You should hold or be working towards a Level 4 qualification (AAT, CCAB, CIMA or equivalent) or have relevant financial experience.

• Business process improvement – Practitioner:
  Analyse and modify existing and new processes to make them more efficient, identifying how technology can be used.
• Interrogation of finance systems – Practitioner:
  Connect finance information from one or more systems or sources in a logical way to prepare for analysis, working with stakeholders to ensure data relevancy for insight‑driven finance decisions. Practitioner‑level understanding with regular use in role or moderate prior experience.

• Delivering at Pace (Level 3)
• Leadership (Level 3)
• Making Effective Decisions (Level 3)

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Finance and Sales

Accounting