Finance Administrator
Full Time, Part Time
Job Description
- Invoicing, PO consolidation and administration of online banking
- Reconciling/analyzing credit card and petty cash payments
- Tracking company spending against project and departmental budgets
- Ensuring payments are processed in a timely manner, with appropriate controls and within authorized limits, reconcile discrepancies and deal with invoice and payment queries and unpaid invoices in order to maintain good client/supplier relationships
- Liaising and working effectively with our third-party partner company accountants who currently support a number of our core finance and accounting processes
- Participating in finance meetings, tracking actions
- General business/admin and communications, such as organizing contracts with suppliers outside of the laboratory requirements
- Improving financial controls and processes within the business – suggest changes/improvements
- Updating financial records/spreadsheets and maintaining historical records
- Maintaining the company’s integrity by keeping information confidential and complying with Data Protection requirements
- Dealing with ad-hoc requests from colleagues
- Supporting audits and VAT analysis and returns
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Significant experience with procurement and accounts, including office management, bookkeeping, KPI tracking and preparation of financial reports
- High attention to detail and a strong commitment to quality and consistency
- Good core IT skills and proficiency with standard office software/tech
- A positive ‘can do’ attitude, willing to be flexible and embrace new challenges
- The ability to work with a degree of autonomy, solve problems and come up with new ideas and better ways of doing things
- Great relationship-building skills and an ability to work effectively with colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds and careers
- Experience of preparing quarterly filings and/or monthly performance reports
- Experience of working in a small, fast-growing organization
- Experience of the Biotech, Pharma, Manufacturing, CPG or other science/technology-led sectors
- A good working knowledge of ordering databases
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