Business Support Officer

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

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.