JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a Members Finance Manager to join our Finance Office at the House of Lords. This is an opportunity to join the team who are responsible for ensuring Members’ allowances and expenses claims are paid promptly and accurately. As well as managing these processes and payments, you will line manage 4 members of the team.
This is an opportunity to work from home for up to two days per week and 3 days per week on-site at Parliament. This is an exciting position for someone who can confidently manage and lead a small team, can solve problems quickly and accurately and enjoys communicating with a range of different stakeholders throughout their day-to-day tasks.

JOB DESCRIPTION

You’ll be accountable for –

• Ensuring payments made to Members are accurate, correctly processed and entered on the accounting system.
• Supporting the Head of Members Finance to ensure that policy, guidance and the administration of the Scheme is up to date, identifying and seeking improvements where possible.
• Managing and developing their direct reports in the Members’ Finance section to enable them to understand their role and achieve their objectives – this will also include general management of staff issues, balancing staff workloads, delegation, training, recruitment and approving leave.
• Acting as the scheme manager for the Members’ Travel Credit Card Scheme and overseeing all aspects of the scheme including agreements with the cardholder and card provider.
• Ensuring the development and maintenance of suitable documentation of the systems in order that staff have access to proper written guidance.
• Dealing with auditors both internal and external.

If this sounds like something you would like to hear more about, please apply below.

IT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF YOU HAD –

• Experience of using Unit 4 Business World accounting software.
• Experience of using a digital publishing system.
• Experience of editing and creating Adobe Acrobat documents and forms.
  The job description provides full details about the role and what we are looking for.
  Benefits
  Alongside your salary of £36,500, House of Lords contributes £10,574 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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You’ll be accountable for –

• Ensuring payments made to Members are accurate, correctly processed and entered on the accounting system.
• Supporting the Head of Members Finance to ensure that policy, guidance and the administration of the Scheme is up to date, identifying and seeking improvements where possible.
• Managing and developing their direct reports in the Members’ Finance section to enable them to understand their role and achieve their objectives – this will also include general management of staff issues, balancing staff workloads, delegation, training, recruitment and approving leave.
• Acting as the scheme manager for the Members’ Travel Credit Card Scheme and overseeing all aspects of the scheme including agreements with the cardholder and card provider.
• Ensuring the development and maintenance of suitable documentation of the systems in order that staff have access to proper written guidance.
• Dealing with auditors both internal and external