About the job

Job summary

FCD is responsible for ensuring that proper financial control processes are in place and to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the financial statements and other published financial information, to satisfy the Accounting Officer’s responsibility with regard to regularity and propriety of UK Export Finance's dealings.

Job description

The Finance Officer will assist the Finance Manager to ensure that all cash transactions are booked and processed accurately and completely in the cashbook/GL in the most efficient manner; within agreed time frames and queries are resolved in a timely manner.  They will enable other divisions to match receipts to the debtor on the admin systems, by providing timely and detailed information to those divisions.  They will also ensure that the cashbooks are reconciled to the bank statements and the timing differences, including unmatched receipts, are aged/analysed, kept to a minimum and reported to management.

They will also report daily bank balances to management, analysing cash positions by currency to ensure sufficient currency is held for day-to-day needs, or trade for currency as required.

The cashier is also responsible for raising all payments including those to suppliers for departmental expenses and payments for claims accurately, in a timely manner and in accordance with UKEF payment policy.

Person specification

• Input all receipts into both Receipt Management Database (RMD) and CODA. Provide documents numbers (ACBSRECT) for all accepted receipts in a timely manner.
• Upload bank statements to CODA for bank reconciliations.
• Daily Exchange Rate upload onto CODA.
• Reconcile the bank accounts and control accounts, post any adjustment journals into CODA and other required month-end activities. Analyse the bank timing differences and unmatched receipts.
• Raise miscellaneous sales invoices and match off transactions on CODA when the invoices have been settled.
• To process all payments (BACS, CHAPS, cheques, or Automated Transfers) accurately and timely to meet UKEF charter.
• To provide cover in the absence of fellow Finance Officer.
• Maintain effective working relationship with colleagues, other government departments and external financial institutions.
• Assist the Purchase Ledger team with invoice processing when required.

This list is not exhaustive, and you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business needs.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £34,000, UK Export Finance contributes £9,180 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.

You will be invited to complete the online application form.  The application form must be completed by 23.55 on the day of the closing date for it to be accepted.

All applications will be sifted against our minimum selection criteria outlined in the personal specification. In addition to this, applicants will also be asked to complete an on-line ability test, this must also be completed prior to the deadline for your application.

You will be asked in the relevant sections of the application form to provide examples of evidence against a range of the success profiles (refer to appendix 1).  Where applicants are asked to apply with a personal statement, you should fully articulate in 750 words how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification within the Information Pack.

 For the initial sift your application will be evaluated against:

1. Experience
2. Ability
3. Technical
4. Behaviours 

If you are successful following the sift stage, you will be invited to an initial interview; this will include the following assessment:

1. Behaviours/Technical/Experience - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all four behaviours highlighted and your technical ability to successfully carry out the role.

Details of interview panel members will be e-mailed to all successful candidates who are invited for interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.