Finance Assistant (Payables)
The University of Bristol is seeking a Finance Assistant to join their Accounts Payable team. The role involves managing invoices, processing payments, and handling supplier queries while primarily working from home with occasional office visits.
Responsibilities
- Verifying and updating the University’s Supplier Master file with bank details, following set protocols and checks
- Preparing, checking and processing the BACS payments each week
- Entering Bank Transfers into the University’s banking system, for approval by the Treasury Team
- Data entry of payment requests using the University’s MyERP finance system
- Manual processing of journals
- Dealing with any returned payments and any related supplier queries and confirmation of payment
Skills
- Educated to at least GCSE level or equivalent
- Aptitude for working with finance
- Customer service focused attitude
- Good communicator
- Able to organise workloads effectively
- Work well under pressure
- Good team player
- Able to work independently on specific tasks and queries
- Experience of using a purchasing system in a large complex organisation
- Awareness of VAT regulations
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