Management Accountant

• Locations Galashiels, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
• Working Pattern Full Time
• Number of Openings 1
• Apply Before 02/02/2026, 11:59 PM

Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your financial expertise in a complex public sector environment, supporting high-quality decision-making and stewardship of public funds?

As a Management Accountant, you will support key financial reporting processes, contributing to the monthly financial reporting and budget monitoring, enabling senior officials to make informed decisions based on timely and high-quality information.

Provision of high quality monthly financial reports to required timescales, providing accurate, relevant and timely management information.

Provide financial advice and assistance to stakeholders, and build and maintain effective working relationships with business areas including with the wider Scottish Government.

Contribute to the completion and quality assurance of input to corporate financial exercises in accordance with corporate timetable. Ensuring working papers provide a full audit trail and are retained and easily accessible during the audit process.

Providing assistance in updating the financial ledger for example performing monthly reconciliation’s and preparing and processing journal entries.

Review budget monitoring returns, undertake the first check of forecasts, year to date actuals, and budget data, and ensure that explanations make sense and support the figures, challenging areas where more explanation is required.

Assisting in the maintenance of overall financial control, to ensure the integrity of financial data on the ledger and the accuracy of the supporting systems and records.

Ensuring adequate financial controls and clear audit trails are in place around accounting and reporting processes.

Working flexibly across the team and shifting direction quickly to meet changing priorities and demands.

You should be part CCAB qualified (or equivalent)
* or have an extensive financial expertise and be willing to work towards attaining such professional qualification.

Success profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of skills, experience and behaviours candidates will be assessed on.

• Working with Data in Finance - Practitioner
• Understanding of costing, forecasting and budgeting guidance - Working

Enhanced analytical skills using a variety of tools to develop informed options, make evidence recommendations and support informed decisions.

Apply online, providing a CV and Supporting Statement (of no more than 1500 words) which provides evidence of how you meet the skills, experience and behaviours listed in the Success Profile above.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application, but all statements and examples provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please see our candidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment.

If invited for further assessment, this will consist of an interview and presentation.

Assessments are scheduled for w/c 16 February 2026, however this may be subject to change.

The Scottish Public Pensions Agency is an Agency of the Scottish Government. Our principal role is to administer the pensions for employees in the National Health Service, Teachers’, Police and Fire-fighters’ pension schemes in Scotland for over 500,000 key workers. The Agency administers these public service pension schemes on behalf of Scottish Ministers with an annual pension spend to over 200,000 pensioners to the value of more than £2.5 billion.

Our standard hours are 35 hours per week. We offer a range of flexible and hybrid working options, with two days minimum working on siteat SPPA. If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for,please contact us.

Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks – Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).

We are committed to equality and inclusion and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.

Find out more about our organisation, what we offer staff members and how to apply on our Careers Website .

Read our Candidate Guide for further information on our recruitment and application processes.

We will hold a reserve list for 12 months.

Apply Before:
Monday 2nd February 2026 at 23:59. This role is open to internal candidates and Common Citizenship organisations only.