Job Description
Grade UE05: £29,588- £33,951 per annum
CSE / School of Informatics
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-term: 12 months
The Opportunity
This is an excellent opportunity to play a vital role in supporting the financial operations underpinning the School’s research and related activities. You will work collaboratively within a dynamic and supportive team, delivering efficient, accurate, and timely finance and administrative services.
The ideal candidate will be confident working both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced and evolving environment. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines. You will bring excellent organisational skills and proven experience of working with financial systems, complex Excel spreadsheets, and Microsoft Office tools.
We are looking for someone with substantial relevant experience in financial administration, with a sound understanding of financial processes, including budget monitoring and reporting. Experience within a higher education or research-focused environment is highly desirable. Familiarity with the University of Edinburgh’s financial systems, policies, and procedures—and knowledge of financial regulations and best practices—would be a distinct advantage.
Join us and contribute to the success of one of the world’s leading centres of informatics research and innovation.
The post is a full-time, one year post and available immediately.
Essential
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.
- 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
- A good working knowledge of the Microsoft package, particularly Excel
- Ability to communicate effectively and clearly, especially financial information to non-finance users, with good interpersonal skills
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Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
Informal enquiries to Carrie McNamee, email:
[email protected]As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- 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
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
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
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore 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
20th August 2025.
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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
Informatics is the study of how natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate information. Research in Informatics promises to take information technology to a new level, and to place information at the heart of 21st century science, technology and society. The School enjoys collaborations across many disciplines in the University, spanning all three College, and also participates as a strategic partner in the Alan Turing Institute and, with Heriot-Watt University, in the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.
The School provides a fertile environment for a wide range of studies focused on understanding computation in both artificial and natural systems. It attracts students around the world to study in our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and currently has approximately 1000 undergraduate students, 320 MSc students and 350 PhD students. Informatics is one of seven schools in the College of Science and Engineering, at the University of Edinburgh. It is recognised for the employability of its graduates (demand exceeds supply), its contributions to entrepreneurship, and the excellence of its research. Since the first Research Assessment Exercise in 1986, Informatics at Edinburgh has consistently been assessed to have more internationally excellent and world-class research than any other submission in Computer Science and Informatics. The latest REF 2014 results have again confirmed that ours is the largest concentration of internationally excellent research in the UK. This contributes to our ranking in the top 15 CS departments world-wide according to the latest Times Higher Education ranking.
We aim to ensure that our culture and systems support flexible and family-friendly working and recognise and value diversity across all our staff and students. The School has an active programme offering support and professional development for all staff; providing mentoring, training, and networking opportunities.
