REF NUMBER: SOMERSET RQ1545478

Please do not apply for this role unless your CV meets the following general requirements, as well as the more specific ones listed further down the ad:
You must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK.
For office based and hybrid roles, your commute to the place of work must be less than 1 hour.
This is a temporary role. Please do not apply if you are seeking a permanent position.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Experience in a finance or administration role within a large or complex organisation.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Good working knowledge of financial procedures and systems, including invoice processing and financial record-keeping.
• Proficiency in IT systems such as SAP, Excel, and other financial databases.
• Ability to respond to queries and communicate financial information clearly to staff and external parties.
• Experience preparing routine reports, correspondence, and documentation.

WHAT’S INVOLVED WITH THIS ROLE:

• We are looking for an organised and detail-oriented Finance Support Administrator to join our finance team. This is an essential support role that ensures the smooth operation of financial processes, systems, and administrative tasks across the organisation.
• Working as part of a wider finance or business support team, you will help maintain financial accuracy, manage records, respond to queries, and support staff, clients, and suppliers in a professional and efficient manner.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain systems to enable practices and procedures to operate to specified standards (e.g. administer imprest and unofficial funds, verifying clients personal finance records, security of cash).
• Prepare orders for goods/services, receive and check delivery notes, invoices and accounts. Process invoices for payment after certification by an appropriate senior member of staff.
• Check financial information and arrange amendments as necessary (eg monthly downloads and uploading of journals). Deal with general queries from colleagues, suppliers and clients relating to the financial information systems (eg payment queries).
• Prepare invoices for services/goods provided, receive and check payments, update financial records and investigate debt recovery.
• Use IT systems to input and extract information and distribute information to appropriate staff (eg SAP, spreadsheets)
• Extract statistics for the completion of statutory returns, drawing relevant issues to the attention of Senior Officers
• Act as a point of contact for staff, clients and suppliers to give routine advice and information relating to the work of the team.
• Prepare and process routine correspondence, reports and other documents

PLEASE QUOTE THE JOB TITLE & VACANCY REFERENCE NO. IN YOUR APPLICATION, OR WE WILL BE UNABLE TO MATCH YOUR CV TO THE ROLE BEING APPLIED FOR.

Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you do not hear from us within three working days, unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. Thank you for your interest in working with us.
XI Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please