Location
City of Westminster

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£46,235 per annum

About the Role
The Finance team at the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) provides essential support to all operational and non-operational teams, ensuring they have accurate financial and management information to manage resources effectively. The team maintains the SFO’s finance system, Oracle Fusion, and ensures all income and expenditure transactions are processed promptly and accurately, maintaining appropriate financial records.

As a Supervising Finance Officer, you will provide guidance to the Financial Control function, ensuring timely and correct payments to suppliers, staff, and witnesses. You will also be responsible for VAT submissions to HMRC and the compilation of monthly returns in compliance with Cabinet Office spending controls and transparency requirements.

Your key responsibilities will include directing staff within the financial control team, approving BACS and manual payments, maintaining and reconciling the Fixed Asset register monthly, preparing key account reconciliations including bank reconciliations, ensuring VAT compliance with monthly returns, and preparing cash flows to monitor receipts and payments to support robust financial control.

Experience
Experience of reconciling balance sheet accounts is essential and will be the lead criteria in the selection process. Experience in financial control functions, payment processing, VAT submissions, and maintaining financial records is highly desirable.

About you
You will be a proactive and organised individual with strong leadership skills to provide direction to the financial control team. You should have excellent attention to detail, the ability to manage multiple financial processes simultaneously, and a commitment to delivering high-quality financial services. Strong communication and influencing skills are important, as is the ability to adapt and improve processes in a changing environment.

Qualifications
Relevant finance or accounting qualifications are advantageous. Candidates must meet the security requirements for the role, including residency and vetting standards.