Finance Assistant

at  Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

DO YOU WANT TO WORK FOR THE UK’S LEADING TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION AND RESEARCH CENTRE FOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY?

Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult is recruiting a FINANCE ASSISTANT for the site in Glasgow to provide an efficient financial processing capability within the organisation.
The role will provide operational support to the finance team.

What will I do?

• Review, create and issue Purchase Orders on Sage Intacct Accounting system
• Process supplier invoices and reconcile supplier statements
• Raise customer sales invoices
• Review and approve employee expenses claims
• Undertake credit control activities, chase outstanding balances and ensure invoices are paid
• Allocate payments and receipts to supplier and customer accounts
• Process company credit card transactions
• Prepare month end journals
• Process weekly payment runs

What are we looking for?

• Good experience in a similar role with a high volume of invoices and queries
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel and Outlook
• Previous experience with Sage Intacct is desirable but not essential
• Attention to detail
• Strong organisation skills and ability to prioritise

What do we offer?

• Salary up to £28k, dependent on experience
• Flexibility to work at home or in the office
• 38 days holidays including flexible bank holidays and option to buy 5 days extra
• Pension, annual bonus, life assurance and health care scheme as standard
• Equal Opportunities Policy
• Electric vehicle and bike2work salary sacrifice schemes
• Open working environment with great potential for career progression and options for Learning and Development
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders and a range of diversity groups and networks, including Inclusion and Diversity, STEM and LGBTQ+
• Refer a Friend scheme paying £1500

ORE Catapult understands the importance of ensuring everyone can be heard, valued, is able to put forward ideas and feels part of something bigger. In a company like ours, that’s always pushing boundaries on innovation, we believe diversity of our people is key to getting a range of ideas, points of view and different perspectives that ultimately ensures our success as a business. We value applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds or protected characteristics, e.g. gender, sexual orientation, race etc. We also understand that some candidates tend to apply only when they tick every box of the criteria stated on an advert. If you don’t tick every box but do feel you have what it takes to be successful in this role, we’d encourage you to still go ahead and make an application.
ORE Catapult values are Excellence, Collaboration, Innovation and Integrity.