JOB SUMMARY

Are you motivated to provide financial analysis, build relationships with stakeholders and to ensure the delivery of value-added outcomes?
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. The Agency administers these public service pension schemes on behalf of Scottish Ministers to over 640,000 members with annual payments of over £3.7 billion, together with the related agency administration expenditure of c. £31 million.
The Scottish Public Pensions Agency’s Finance function delivers a complete financial management, reporting, and treasury service combined with responsibility for finance transactions with members and employers. You will play a key role in developing relationships and sharing and collating financial information with stakeholders to drive effective decision making.

QUALIFICATIONS

Recommended Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB or CIMA or working towards qualification with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent.

TECHNICAL / PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• Understanding of Forecasting: Knowledge of the forecasting mechanisms including frequency of preparation and depth of detail in collaboration with stakeholders adhering to deadlines – Working.
• Data Analysis: Applies knowledge of relevant data analysis packages and methodologies in conjunction with strong analytical skills to examine varied sources of information in order to support decision making – Practitioner.
• Government Financial Reporting: Activity related to the application of the Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM) and other statutory reporting requirements, including technical accounting guidance for the preparation of financial statements – Working.
  Skill Levels:
  Working - Moderate understanding of the topic with occasional use in role/prior experience.
  Practitioner - Strong understanding of the topic with regular use in role/moderate prior experience.

EXPERIENCE:

Experience in fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration between the business and finance.

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)
• 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

Further information on nationality requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Building and maintaining relationships with customer budget holders.
• Providing advice on compliance with policy, standards, accountabilities and controls.
• Translating, owning and adding insight to financial data to provide clear information and evidence to support business activities and requirements.
• Providing guidance at appropriate level budget holder meetings and boards.
• Reviewing and providing input to business cases/ strategic documentation.
• Identifying and applying relevant costs, benefits and investment appraisal techniques.
• Providing relevant coaching and training to the business.
• Providing ad-hoc analysis and presentations to drive and support business decisions, such as efficiency and cost reduction options, using all available data and analytics tools.