Supervisor – Banking and Accounts Receivable

Scottish Enterprise (se); City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent Scottish enterprise is seeking a Supervisor for Banking and Accounts Receivable to lead a small team and drive financial transformation. This role is essential in overseeing financial processing, ensuring accuracy, and developing capabilities within the finance function. Ideal candidates will have strong bookkeeping knowledge, technical skills, and a commitment to team leadership. The organization promotes flexible working and values diversity in the workplace.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Strong technical bookkeeping knowledge.
• Experience across general ledger and accounts receivable functions.
• Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring a small team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a small team through coaching and development.
• Oversee financial processing and controls across accounts receivable and banking.
• Prepare and post journals accurately, ensuring accuracy in financial reporting.

Skills

Bookkeeping knowledge

Team leadership

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Education

Qualifications in finance or accounting subject at SCQF Level 8

Job description

Supervisor – Banking and Accounts Receivable

Job title:Supervisor
Team: Banking and Accounts Receivable
Location: Any Scottish Enterprise office in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, or Aberdeen, with flexible working options available
Grade: 7
Salary: £44,690
Hours: Full-time
Status: Permanent
Vacancy ref: R00678
Closing date: 7 January 2026

Be part of building Scotland’s future

At Scottish Enterprise, we support Scotland’s most ambitious companies to innovate, scale, and help transform the economy.

The next decade brings both major challenges and extraordinary opportunities. To meet them, we’re focused on three bold missions:

• Building a globally competitive energy transition industry
• Scaling Scotland’s innovation strengths into the high-growth sectors of the future
• Unlocking capital investment to boost productivity and create high‑value jobs

Against this backdrop we’re transforming how we work – including how our finance systems and processes support the organisation. That’s where this role comes in.

This is an exciting opportunity to take the next step in your career in our Finance Directorate. Leading a small, supportive team, you’ll play an important part in our finance transformation as we roll out a new system.

Your bookkeeping experience will help shape new ways of working, strengthen the team’s capability, and drive positive change across the wider finance function.

The role

As part of the Finance Centre team, you’ll use your bookkeeping and accounting expertise to deliver our banking and accounts receivable services.

The role also includes managing balance sheet accounts up to trial balance level, drawing on your professional judgement to ensure accuracy, consistency, and high‑quality financial information.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and supporting a small team through coaching, development, workload supervision, and performance appraisals
• Overseeing financial processing and controls across:
  • Accounts receivable – guaranteeing accurate posting of transactions and managing the debt recovery process
  • Banking – recording income and expenditure, completing bank reconciliations, and ensuring accuracy and timeliness in financial reporting
  • General ledger – preparing and posting journals accurately, including those for specialised transactions (such as outsourced services, equity, and loan activity), reconciling specific balance sheet codes to trial balance level, and providing information for auditors
• Producing and managing reports for areas including outsourced services and equity and loan transactions

Who we’re looking for

You’ll bring strong technical bookkeeping knowledge, with experience across general ledger and accounts receivable functions, reconciliations, and journal preparation. Leadership is just as important – you should be confident managing, coaching and developing a small team.

Attention to detail, analytical thinking, and a proactive approach to problem solving will help you thrive in this role, along with the ability to adapt as systems and processes evolve.

Your skills and experience should include:

• Qualifications, or equivalent skills and experience, in a finance or accounting subject at SCQF Level 8 (such as Higher National Diploma or Advanced Diploma)
• A high level of understanding of the bookkeeping entries required for a range of financial transactions
• Experience reconciling a variety of balance sheet control accounts
• Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring a small team

Although not essential, ideally you’ll also have:

• A professional accounting qualification — or be working towards one — from a recognised body (for example ICAS, ICAEW, CIMA, CIPFA, or ACCA)
• Experience working in a public sector finance team
• Experience supporting or implementing a finance system

Further information on the role can be found in the attached role profile.

Life at Scottish Enterprise

As one of Scotland’s Top 10 Flexible Employers, we pride ourselves on empowering our colleagues to work when and where they can best deliver their role in support of our corporate plan.

If you’re interested in this role, complete your application form by 7 January 2026.

Interview dates

First interviews will be held on 19 to 20 January 2026.

Our values

Being part of Scottish Enterprise means being open to new ideas and trying different ways of working. We support each other to reach our full potential. We celebrate shared success and learn together when things don’t go so well. And we always treat each other fairly, with respect and understanding. Together, we are the difference.

At Scottish Enterprise, we’re proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience and thought is vital to the success of our vision for the future of every community across Scotland. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications 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, or sexual orientation.

We commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required, not only during the application and assessment process but throughout your employment with us.

We have the following networks that are open to all colleagues to help drive inclusion: Disability Positive, Gender Balanced, Multi‑Cultural, Multi‑Generational and Pride (LGBTQ+).