Business Support Officer - #1794711

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Business Support Officer for an initial 12 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £160.60/day Inside IR35. This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

Responsibilities:

- Delivering high-quality administrative support for the organisation including planning, meeting organisation and delivery.

- Financial transactions processing via the Oracle Finance System, including raising purchase orders, payment of invoices and grant payments, and card purchases, monitoring budgets and reports as part of the Finance Team.

- Supporting the Corporate Services team by managing and monitoring of project management documentation.

- Supporting the Director of Operations and Partnerships on information flows, statutory reporting, and project management of discrete pieces of project work as required which will span across business functions.

- Support the maintenance, monitoring and development of the Governance activities tracker including expenses, travel, benefits, information and holiday systems.

- Provide administrative support across the Directorates as required and agreed with the Finance, Governance & Corporate Services Manager to ensure tasks are delivered on time and of good quality, through developing a sound knowledge of relevant operational policies and procedures to ensure compliance is maintained.

Essential Skills:

- Experience within a business support function in the public sector would be highly advantageous.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and confidence in engaging with a range of people at all levels.

- Ability to organise and collate robust information from a variety of sources in decision making, sharing knowledge.

- Excellent organisation skills and ability to work under own initiative to manage competing priorities and demands when working in a very busy and fast paced environment.

- Experience and ability of building relationships and working collaboratively

- Strong IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Word and Excel

- Ideally experience of working with the Oracle finance system

Desirable Skills:

- Experience of working in a fast-paced administrative role

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.