The University of Bristol is seeking a Finance Assistant to join their Accounts Payable team. The role involves managing invoices, processing payments, and handling supplier queries while primarily working from home with occasional office visits.
Responsibilities
- Verifying and updating the University’s Supplier Master file with bank details, following set protocols and checks
- Preparing, checking and processing the BACS payments each week
- Entering Bank Transfers into the University’s banking system, for approval by the Treasury Team
- Data entry of payment requests using the University’s MyERP finance system
- Manual processing of journals
- Dealing with any returned payments and any related supplier queries and confirmation of payment
Skills
- Educated to at least GCSE level or equivalent
- Aptitude for working with finance
- Customer service focused attitude
- Good communicator
- Able to organise workloads effectively
- Work well under pressure
- Good team player
- Able to work independently on specific tasks and queries
- Experience of using a purchasing system in a large complex organisation
- Awareness of VAT regulations
Company Overview
Research within the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience is conducted across Neuroscience, Cardiovascular and Cell Signalling. It was founded in 1876, and is headquartered in Bristol, Bristol, GB, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.bristol.ac.uk/phys-pharm-neuro/.