Job Description

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Completing a monthly reconciliation between Oracle General Ledger and Oracle Project Accounting modules on a project by project basis
• Ensuring asset capitalisation and disposals are in accordance with UKRI's policies and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Working with Project Managers and Finance Business Partners to agree appropriate project structures to facilitate asset creations in Oracle Project Accounting
• Identifying and cleansing project data of non-capital items
• The timely creation of Construction in Progress assets in Oracle Fixed Asset module
• Maintaining an effective collaborative working relationship with the shared service centre UK SBS (fixed asset transaction processing is outsourced).

To be successful in this role you will be a part qualified accountant or will be studying for professional qualification and will have demonstrable experience in a financial environment substantiated by a proven track record.

You will be highly competent in IT systems and applications with a particular focus on Windows 10 and Microsoft Office. Good working knowledge of data mining (pivot tables, VLOOKUP's, sumif's) within large Excel spreadsheets is also essential.

A good understanding of the accounting lifecycle for Non-Current Assets (Fixed Assets) or experience of determining capital and non-capital expenditure or of working in a research/not for profit environment would be advantageous but is not essential.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities