Accounts Clerk

Providing guidance to RAF Benson personnel on accounts policies and processes, processing payments, entering fund transactions into the Service accounting system and completing required financial documentation.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

• Providing guidance to Stn personnel on Accounts policies and processes, through direct engagement and Group Inbox management.
• Making invoice or purchasing payments for operating or event costs on behalf of non-public funds
• Entering non-public fund transactions into the service accounting system and maintaining the accuracy of each fund’s Nominal Ledger.
• Providing non-public fund custodians with monthly account summaries for reconciliation.
• Storing cash holdings (including foreign currency) in a secure manner, and completing all required financial documentation.
• Issuing cash floats in support of non-publicly funded activities, and receiving any cash deposits.
• Issuing cash imprests in support of publicly funded deployments, exercises, and training, and receiving any unspent monies.
• Creating invoices on the service invoice system to generate income through non-entitled use of Accommodation and landing fees.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.

At sift, candidates will be assessed against the following Behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

At interview, candidates will be assessed against the following Behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

Interviews will be in person at RAF Benson.

Further information:

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.