Job Description

Position: Finance Officer
Location: Coventry ( home based )
Rate: £14.71 per hour
Start date: asap
Contract type: Temporary

Brook Street are recruiting on behalf of the Department for Education for a Finance officer on an initial 5 month temporary contract.
" You are comfortable working in a challenging and fast paced environment on a range of multi priority tasks to changing deadlines. Ideally with a good understanding of finance processes.
" Experience of supervising a small team and have the ability to influence, guide and support peers and more junior colleagues to better understand complex issues within their business area and take appropriate action to resolve.
" You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
" You have an eye for detail and are capable of repeatedly entering and reading information correctly
" You have the ability to deliver a high-quality customer service in a busy finance environment.
" You enjoy working with people and helping them.
" You can work as part of a team in order to achieve a goal.
" You acknowledge the need to understand your own work area and to have a general understanding of the links to other areas and how your work fits within the structure of the organisation.
" You have the ability to lead on the resolution of complex queries within your business area to a very high standard
" You are able to exercise limited discretion, take decisions, manage and improve processes and represent the organisation.
" You are motivated and driven with a proactive attitude, identifying and volunteering for new challenges.
" You have sound analytical skills and good judgement to inform your decisions or when providing opinions or advice to others
" You have experience of Microsoft Excel, to intermediate level, and can demonstrate proficiency with Pivot Tables and other analysis functions such as VLookup.
" You have experience of using financial systems or supporting them.
" You have good customer service management and are User Focussed.
" You have experience of working on your own initiative and delivering positive results
" You can achieve deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail

Desirable:
At least 2 years previous experience working in a Finance environment

If you wish to apply for this role please send us your CV.