Project Support Officer

5 days ago

Wallingford, United Kingdom Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Full time

9-month Fixed-Term appointment with the potential to become permanent, Full-Time (37 hours per week)

Based at any of our sites Wallingford, Lancaster, Edinburgh or Bangor

Hybrid working options available, with 50% of your time onsite

**Salary**: £28,125
- We are an independent, not-for-profit research institute. Home to 600 scientists, supported by our experienced professional service teams, we provide the data and insights that researchers, governments, and businesses need to tackle some of the major environmental challenges we face today.
We want you to love what you do whilst looking after yourself, so we support you with excellent benefits such as:

- 27 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after 5 years
- Above standard pension contributions
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- A flexible approach to work, enabling you to maintain a healthy work/life balance
- 24 hour, 365-day access to support with physical, mental, social, health or financial issues
- Plus loads more - A bit about you...
- You’ll be proactive in assisting Project Managers in the setup, review, reporting and closure of their projects, whilst assisting Project Accountants in the processing of workflow approvals and regular reviews of project budgets.
- You'll thrive in an environment where you are working on a wide range of projects and provides you with plenty of variation and challenge. You may be looking to develop into a more senior project accounting, project management or process/system support role in the future, for which we can provide you with training support.
- Main responsibilities will include supporting the Project Accountant/Senior Project Accountant and Project Support Officers in activities such as:

- Setting up projects in UKCEH’s business system (Workday) and SharePoint
- Processing workflow approvals
- Generating invoicing schedules and producing expenditure statements to support customer invoices
- Making project revisions as necessary
- Assisting project managers in the appropriate use of systems, reports and budgeting tools
- Resolving adhoc financial processing and reporting queries

Here are some essential skills we are looking for:

- Proficient in numeracy and understanding of the importance of budgetary control
- Knowledge and/or experience of using finance systems
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise work effectively

We would be delighted if you also had the following skills/experience:

- Partial/Full qualification in management or project accounting
- Experience with Workday business system
- Educated to a degree level

If you are excited about joining us, please send us your CV and covering letter, telling us how amazing you would be for this role, by clicking the “apply” button. If you would like to make an informal enquiry, please get in touch with Antony Mariani

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