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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