Description review

Finance Officer

Scottish Government · United Kingdom, Remote · back to the listing

HR standards

32/100

poor

Title ↔ description

52/100

needs work

Reads as

Financial Analyst

99% confident

What this role officially is

financial analyst — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Financial analysts conduct economic research and elicit valuable analyses on financial matters such as profitability, liquidity, solvency, and asset management. They provide recommendations on financial matters for decision-making processes. Financial analysts work in both the public and the private sector.

Also known as: financial markets report writer, structured finance analyst, financial markets analyst, company analyst, financial markets forecaster, stock market analyst

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

Job description

Are you keen to help provide financial support for students in Further and Higher Education?

This role supports the effective decision-making and stewardship of public money. As the fiscal environment becomes more complex, there is a need for continuing development of financial reporting and successful candidates will play a key role in supporting this work.

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 12 points (from 44 before penalties). Reviewed 23 Sep 2026.