Senior Financial Processes Officer

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**As an employee, you will benefit from**:

- Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme.
- Corporate bonus scheme of up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
- Flexible working options, including family-friendly policies and the right to request flexible working from the start of your employment.
- Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
- Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays.
- Wide range of career development opportunities.
- A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive.
- The salary for this role is £29,761.

This role can be based at the following site: Culham, Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

**The Role**

Working in a team and being part of a world-leading organisation. Interacting with other parts of the organisation and helping to resolve queries. Producing reports showing key data and metrics about the processes function. The Senior Financial Processes Officer will carry out and be responsible for a range of tasks within the Authority’s Financial Processes (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Expenses) function.

**What will you be responsible for?**
- Producing reports showing key data and metrics about the process's function.
- Processing purchase invoices, sales invoices & travel and subsistence expense claims.
- Maintaining the accuracy of the supplier and customer database.
- Providing support to other members of the team, including training apprentices.
- Resolving queries.
- Providing support, guidance, and documentation to internal and external customers about the processes function.

**Qualifications Essential skills, experience, and competence required**
- Strong time management skills, including the ability to prioritize the workload.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to work as a team player & under their own initiative.
- Intermediate Excel (basic formulas, v-look-ups, pivot tables, etc.).
- Flexibility.

**Desirable skills, experience, and competence**
- Experience with using an accounting ERP system (Oracle, SAP, U4BW) including processing of supplier invoices.
- Additional experience with sales invoicing or travel & subsistence processing.

**Additional Information**

Applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women, are welcomed. The Executive team, supported by the 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within the organisation. Best practices in recruitment and selection are reinforced and approaches to remove barriers to success are evaluated.

**Job Type**: Permanent

Pay: £29,000.00-£29,761.00 per hour

Work Location: In person