Finance Assistant

UE04 £20,130-£22,417

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine/Institute of Genetics and Cancer/Finance Department

Full time - 35 hours per week

12 month fixed term, maternity leave cover

The Institute of Genetics and Cancer (IGC) is seeking a well-organised and enthusiastic individual to fill the post of Finance Assistant, during a period of maternity cover, within the Finance Team. Working as part of a small finance team based at the Western General Hospital, you will provide financial and administrative support to Institute staff responsible for the delivery of science programmes , scientific support services, administrative and technical services.

The Opportunity:

Your skills and attributes for success

• Educated at least to High Standard or equivalent ]
• Have experience of working in a busy finance environment
• Good working knowledge of financial systems, experience of University of Edinburgh systems would be desirable but not essential.
• Have a methodical approach to work, including the ability to prioritise your workload and work to tight deadlines
• Good communication, problem solving, interpersonal, IT, literacy and numeracy skills are essential, particularly the use of Excel
  

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme,staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits pagefor further information and use our reward calculatorto find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to workwebpages

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.