Finance Officer

Witherslack Group • Lupton, AZ

2d • £25,000 - £27,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a varied role that sits at the heart of our Group Finance function, providing transactional support to the wider Finance team and our schools and care homes across the Group. As a Finance Officer, you’ll play an important role in ensuring our financial processes run smoothly and accurately. You’ll process supplier invoices through our Workday purchase order system, liaising with suppliers and colleagues across our schools, homes and wider business to resolve queries and ensure invoices are processed correctly. You’ll also support the month-end process by reviewing open purchase orders and working with our sites to ensure accruals accurately reflect goods and services received but not yet invoiced. This will include preparing journals and schedules relating to month-end accruals and prepayments. You’ll also prepare monthly management accounts for designated sites, identifying areas that require further investigation or challenge. As a key point of contact for our sites, you’ll help colleagues understand and follow our procurement policies and procedures, providing support and guidance where needed. There’ll be plenty of opportunity to develop your knowledge and expertise too. You’ll support colleagues with the Workday PO system, including helping to add new suppliers and providing training to new and existing users. The role will be based primarily at our Lupton Group Office, with flexible working available for up to two days per week following your initial induction. Working arrangements may vary depending on departmental deadlines and the needs of the wider Finance team.

Requirements

• Knowledge and experience of working within a Finance team
• Experience of processing financial data and supporting transactional finance activities
• Experience of preparing management accounts
• Experience of working with Workday
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to liaise confidently with colleagues across all functions of the business
• The ability to manage your own time and plan your workload effectively to meet deadlines
• The ability to work well as part of a team and to tight deadlines when required
• The ability to challenge and address issues where financial policies and procedures are not being followed

Nice To Haves

• Experience of working with purchase ledgers and purchase order systems
• Experience of month-end processes, including accruals, prepayments and journals
• Experience of providing support or training to colleagues using financial systems
• An AAT or equivalent qualification

Responsibilities

• Process supplier invoices through the Workday purchase order system.
• Liaise with suppliers and colleagues to resolve invoice queries.
• Support the month-end process by reviewing open purchase orders.
• Work with sites to ensure accruals accurately reflect goods and services received but not yet invoiced.
• Prepare journals and schedules relating to month-end accruals and prepayments.
• Prepare monthly management accounts for designated sites.
• Identify areas requiring further investigation or challenge in management accounts.
• Act as a key point of contact for sites regarding procurement policies and procedures.
• Provide support and guidance to colleagues on procurement policies and procedures.
• Support colleagues with the Workday PO system, including adding new suppliers.
• Provide training to new and existing users of the Workday PO system.

Benefits

• Base salary of between £25,000 - £27,000
• Ongoing professional development
• 7 weeks' holiday
• Flexible benefits package (increase/decrease holiday allowance, pension, life insurance)
• Wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
• Medical cover (claim back costs of opticians or dentist appointments)
• Host of high-street discounts
• Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed