Transactions Assistant

Role: Transactions Assistant

Location: Flexible – Any Care Inspectorate office (Expectation to work from the Dundee office for your 40% office collaboration per week and for office-based tasks)

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £27,696 - £30,357

Contract: Temporary to 31 March 2025

About us

We are the independent scrutiny and improvement support body for social care and social work services in Scotland. We provide assurance for people who experience care services, their families, carers and the wider public, as well as supporting delivery partners to improve the quality of care for people in Scotland. Our vision is for world-class social care and social work in Scotland, where everyone in every community experience high-quality care, support and learning, tailored to their rights, needs and wishes.   

We inspect individual care services, and we also work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people are experiencing in their local areas. 

Our desire is to achieve an effective and balanced way of working, that enables us to meet organisational needs and achieve a work-life balance that promotes wellbeing and collaboration opportunities. We are moving towards the expectation that all staff will work collaboratively, within and across teams, in person, for approximately 40% of their working week. 

About the role

A temporary opportunity has arisen within the Care Inspectorate team that provides services to the Scottish Social Services Council.

As a member of the team, you will undertake a range of general administrative tasks to support the Transactions Manager. Duties will include processing invoices in the financial system, raising purchase orders, providing administrative support in collating banking, receipting income, receipting payments and services and responding to enquiries received.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will:

• Understand financial controls and financial environment
• Have excellent customer service skills and telephone manner
• Provide a range of administration and clerical support to a high standard including database administration
• Organise, process, record and file information and correspondence both electronically and manually
• Be accurate and show attention to detail
• Have a thorough knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel
• Maintain high standards of confidentiality
• Work flexibly as part of a team to support the organisation

Experience of using Oracle financial system and knowledge of debt recovery is desirable.

Next steps

You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification. You can also have an informal chat about the role. For all this information and details on how to apply please click on the link below that will take you to our webiste on how to apply.

If you believe that your expertise and motivation, make you suitable for this post, please download and complete an application form on our website and return by email to us no later than 08.00 on Monday 15 July 2024.

Please also complete the equal opportunities form and return this along with your application.

The interviews for this post will be no earlier than 23 July 2024.