Finance Administrator
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Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/31/2025
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Description
Job Description
Grade UOE05: £29,588 - £33,951 per annum
CAHSS / School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures
Full-Time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-Term: 2 years
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a School Finance Administrator (UE05) to join the School Office Team within the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures to ensure a consistent approach and an efficient and effective customer service. Contributing to the continuous development and improvement of the school finance services function.
The Opportunity
The successful candidate will support the management, organisation and operation of the School’s finances, working closely with the Finance Co-ordinator and Finance Business Partner reviewing the monthly reports and reconciliations of all budgets, ensuring inconsistencies are resolved in a timely manner, to meet forecasting deadlines.
Experience of financial processing and budgeting with effective communication, data literacy, and time-management skills are essential for this role.
We welcome applications for this post from all qualified candidates and particularly welcome applications from members of minority ethnic groups, who are currently under-represented in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
Informal inquiries can be directed to: [email protected]
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
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.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
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
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 14th August 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews likely to be held on the week commencing 25 th August 2025.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) is one of the largest Schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. We are an international community at the heart of the main University campus, drawing connections between people and cultures both within and beyond our School, and thriving on our place in a global festival city. Based in George Square, we are surrounded by world-class resources and collections.
Teaching and Learning
We offer one of the widest range of languages of any UK university, teaching all six official languages of the United Nations, and eight of the languages of the European Union.
Based in the first UNESCO City of Literature, we are home to the oldest department of English Literature in the UK - one of the longest established in the world - and the oldest Celtic department in Scotland. Arabic has been taught here for over 260 years.
With over 100 undergraduate programmes, many offered with partner Schools in our College, we encourage flexible, interdisciplinary learning. Our four-year undergraduate degrees are specifically designed to enable choice and broaden minds.
Our large postgraduate community comprises students on taught and research masters programmes, as well as a highly active group of PhD candidates. At postgraduate level, we are a leading centre for the study of film, including exhibition and curation, and for comparative literature, intermediality, and translation studies.
Research
LLC is home to many research centres and networks. Often highly interdisciplinary, these groups bring together researchers at all career stages with partners and stakeholders on a range of activities.
In the last Research Excellence Framework (REF) over 70% of the School's research activity was rated world leading or internationally excellent (3* or 4*).
Grade UOE05: £29,588 - £33,951 per annum
CAHSS / School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures
Full-Time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-Term: 2 years
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a School Finance Administrator (UE05) to join the School Office Team within the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures to ensure a consistent approach and an efficient and effective customer service. Contributing to the continuous development and improvement of the school finance services function.
The Opportunity
The successful candidate will support the management, organisation and operation of the School’s finances, working closely with the Finance Co-ordinator and Finance Business Partner reviewing the monthly reports and reconciliations of all budgets, ensuring inconsistencies are resolved in a timely manner, to meet forecasting deadlines.
Experience of financial processing and budgeting with effective communication, data literacy, and time-management skills are essential for this role.
We welcome applications for this post from all qualified candidates and particularly welcome applications from members of minority ethnic groups, who are currently under-represented in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
Informal inquiries can be directed to: [email protected]
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- Vocational qualifications (N/SVQ 3, ONC or equivalent), plus work experience in a relevant role OR school education to Standard Grade / National 5 or equivalent plus work experience in the unit or comparable setting.
- Previous experience of financial processing and budgeting.
- A good working knowledge of the Microsoft package, particularly Excel.
- Pro-active approach to seeking out information, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to plan, prioritise, take initiative and find proactive solutions, contribute new ideas to projects, work unsupervised, under pressure and multitask effectively.
- Ability to communicate effectively and clearly, especially financial information to non-finance users, with good interpersonal skills.
- A positive, open-minded and enthusiastic attitude with ability to work as part of a team.
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn new skills, particularly digital skills.
Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
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.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
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
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 14th August 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews likely to be held on the week commencing 25 th August 2025.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) is one of the largest Schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. We are an international community at the heart of the main University campus, drawing connections between people and cultures both within and beyond our School, and thriving on our place in a global festival city. Based in George Square, we are surrounded by world-class resources and collections.
Teaching and Learning
We offer one of the widest range of languages of any UK university, teaching all six official languages of the United Nations, and eight of the languages of the European Union.
Based in the first UNESCO City of Literature, we are home to the oldest department of English Literature in the UK - one of the longest established in the world - and the oldest Celtic department in Scotland. Arabic has been taught here for over 260 years.
With over 100 undergraduate programmes, many offered with partner Schools in our College, we encourage flexible, interdisciplinary learning. Our four-year undergraduate degrees are specifically designed to enable choice and broaden minds.
Our large postgraduate community comprises students on taught and research masters programmes, as well as a highly active group of PhD candidates. At postgraduate level, we are a leading centre for the study of film, including exhibition and curation, and for comparative literature, intermediality, and translation studies.
Research
LLC is home to many research centres and networks. Often highly interdisciplinary, these groups bring together researchers at all career stages with partners and stakeholders on a range of activities.
In the last Research Excellence Framework (REF) over 70% of the School's research activity was rated world leading or internationally excellent (3* or 4*).
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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