Finance Assistant Purchase Ledger

If you're looking for a role where you can feel supported, valued and part of a genuinely friendly team, this could be a fantastic next step. We're delighted to be recruiting a Finance Assistant on a 12-month fixed-term contract, offering hybrid working, flexibility and a warm, collaborative working environment.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, takes pride in accuracy and wants to work within a team that really looks after each other.

Why This Role Stands Out

• 12-month FTC with real variety
• Hybrid working - 2 days on site, the rest from home
• Flexi time to help balance life and work
• A supportive, welcoming Finance Office
• A chance to build experience in a respected organisation
• Excellent holiday and benefits

What You'll Be Doing You'll play a key role in supporting the Finance Office with a wide range of tasks, ensuring processes run smoothly and colleagues receive excellent service.

Purchase Ledger & Supplier Support

• Setting up suppliers, processing purchase invoices, preparing BACS payments, reconciling supplier statements and monitoring credit balances in line with internal policies and procedures.
• Dealing with purchase order queries.
• Processing payments in line with agreed timelines and internal procedures.

Expenses & Payments

• Processing and paying online staff expense claims, ensuring correct coding, authorisation and compliance.
• Supporting and training staff on the online expenses and requisition process.
• Processing and paying external claimant expenses in line with internal procedures.
• Ensuring company Barclaycard expenditure is correctly authorised, coded and posted.

Wider Finance Support

• Supporting sales ledger and credit control tasks when required, including raising sales orders, invoices and chasing outstanding debt.
• Carrying out routine administrative and filing duties to support finance functions.
• Collecting, opening and distributing internal and external mail.
• Providing cover for the Finance Assistant - student payments when needed.
• Delivering excellent customer service by responding to general finance enquiries promptly and professionally.

About You

• Experience in finance administration or similar
• Strong attention to detail
• Friendly, approachable and customer-focused
• Comfortable working both independently and as part of a supportive team

If you're looking for a warm, flexible and rewarding role within a team that truly values its people, this 12-month FTC could be a brilliant fit for you.What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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