Finance Administrator
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Job Description
Grade UE05: 29588 - 33951 per annum
CAHSS / School of Literatures Languages & Cultures
Full-Time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-Term: 2 years
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a School Finance Administrator (UE05) to join the School Office Team within the School of Literatures Languages and Cultures to ensure a consistent approach and an efficient and effective customer service. Contributing to the continuous development and improvement of the school finance services function.
The Opportunity:
The successful candidate will support the management organisation and operation of the Schools finances working closely with the Finance Co-ordinator and Finance Business Partner reviewing the monthly reports and reconciliations of all budgets ensuring inconsistencies are resolved in a timely manner to meet forecasting deadlines.
Experience of financial processing and budgeting with effective communication data literacy and time-management skills are essential for this role.
We welcome applications for this post from all qualified candidates and particularly welcome applications from members of minority ethnic groups who are currently under-represented in the School of Literatures Languages and Cultures.
Informal inquiries can be directed to:
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Vocational qualifications (N/SVQ 3 ONC or equivalent) plus work experience in a relevant role OR school education to Standard Grade / National 5 or equivalent plus work experience in the unit or comparable setting.
- Previous experience of financial processing and budgeting.
- A good working knowledge of the Microsoft package particularly Excel.
- Pro-active approach to seeking out information accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to plan prioritise take initiative and find proactive solutions contribute new ideas to projects work unsupervised under pressure and multitask effectively.
- Ability to communicate effectively and clearly especially financial information to non-finance users with good interpersonal skills.
- A positive open-minded and enthusiastic attitude with ability to work as part of a team.
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn new skills particularly digital skills.
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Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting positive creative challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits such as a generous holiday entitlement competitive pension schemes staff discounts and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on ourstaff benefits page(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality diversity and inclusion
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.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on ourright to work webpages(opens new browser tab).
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
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 14th August 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews likely to be held early to mid September.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
