Finance Assistant - Purchase Ledger

at  Sheffield Hallam University

THE TEAM

The University’s Finance and Procurement Directorate are responsible for the day-to-day management of our financial systems, processing all purchasing and payment operations, receipting income and offering professional financial advice to University staff and external stakeholders. It also ensures compliance with statutory and regulatory financial requirements.
The Purchase Ledger Team (13 members) is a proactive and friendly team. As a Finance Assistant, you will join our busy Purchase Ledger Team which is responsible for ensuring all University payments, to UK and overseas suppliers, staff and students are processed in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.
You can find out more about the directorate https://www.shu.ac.uk/finance-directorate/about-us

If you always provide a high standard of customer service, with good communication, numeracy and interpersonal skills and have a keen eye for detail and can manage your own workload then this could be the job for you.
You should have experience of working in a finance environment, ideally on purchase ledger activities and the ability to use computerised accounting systems.

Duties include:

• Ensuring all transactions / processes are monitored, reviewed and corrected where necessary
• Receipting of goods or services received through the P2P system
• Investigating items on the ledger to ensure accurate and timely processes (e.g. held and logged report review, supplier statement reconciliations, credit balances, bank returns)
• Setting up new suppliers and making amendments to existing supplier details, following University procedures to minimise the risk of fraud