Advertised from 11 August 2025

Role

We’re looking for someone to join the finance team for a year to help us produce high quality financial information. You’ll work closely with other members of the finance team to aid strategic collaboration and performance optimisation across directorates.

In an organisation when no two days are the same, you’ll be a self-starter who puts communication and collaboration first to ensure stakeholder expectations are met.

Working with the Finance Manager there will be opportunity to add value creation through process improvements thus maximising the value we get from our limited finances.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of monthly management accounts and financial reporting to managers, the Executive, the Board and Board Committees, including commentary and variance analysis
• Completion and submission of monthly budget monitoring reports to the Scottish Government
• Act as business partner with budget holders. Preparation, profiling and monitoring of budgets (salary budget/ team budgets/ organisational level budgets).
• Assist in the development of new reporting from our finance system
• Support the preparation of the annual statutory accounts and liaise with External Audit
• Review, interpret and advise on statutory and regulatory changes in public body financial accounting and determine appropriate changes in internal policies, controls and financial accounting to comply with statutory requirements and best practice.
• Provide financial advice, guidance and support to the organisation to support business needs
• Prepare and assist with the documentation of policies, procedures and controls.
• Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as required.

Who we are looking for:

Your skills, abilities and experience should include:

• Experience of preparing and presenting management accounts, budgets and forecasts;
• Working knowledge of financial systems including nominal ledger coding structures
• Experience of month-end processes including Trial Balance, variance analysis and reconciliations;
• Able to extract data from finance systems for reporting purposes.
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Excellent understanding and ability to interrogate finance systems
• Self-starter, collaborative and flexible worker
• Articulate with excellent interpersonal skills, including good report-writing skills
• Part Qualified Accountant with significant hands-on experience

Ideally, but not essentially, you’ll also have:

• Experience of preparing end of year statutory accounts, liaising with internal and external auditors;
• Experience of working within a finance unit in a public sector environment (ideally NDPB)
• Bank payment processing including use of appropriate software
• Advanced Excel skills
• Knowledge and understanding of Scottish Public Finance Manual (SPFM) and Financial Reporting Manual (FReM)
• Experience of working in a small finance team
• Qualified Accountant with membership of a CCAB/ professional accountancy body

Who we are and our values:

We offer flexible and remote working, with a generous pension scheme and annual leave allowance. Staff have access to wellbeing services and there is a strong focus on wellbeing throughout the organisation.

Being part of Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Authority means being passionate about what you do, working hard to inspire and lead the way for others. We care about each other and are accessible and friendly treating each other with respect and understanding, we think about our planet with each decision we make. Together, we are the difference.

Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Authority are proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience is vital in our success we want our business to be representative to the communities we work alongside. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applicants from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Application notes

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

Closing date: 9am, 20 August 2025.

Interview date: 4 September 2025.

Interviews will be virtual.