Finance Assistant
| Posting date: | 14 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £23,900 to £23,900 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 January 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3 4FP |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Science Museum Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SMG03057_1736774695 |
Summary
Finance Assistant
Do you have experience in an administration, customer service or finance role? Are you able to work well as part of a team and complete multiple tasks efficiently?
About us
The Science Museum Group conserves and exhibits an unparalleled collection of objects that tell the story of our modern world through STEM. Incorporating five museums nationwide, it is important we stay 'out-of-the-red' and the Finance Operations team (a service centre in Manchester serving the whole group) ensures we receive and process payments accurately, allowing us to continue inspiring futures for generations. We also have plans to improve the value we provide to the organisation by increasing the use of automation and technology.
We are now recruiting for a Finance Assistant on a permanent contract working full-time (35 hours per week). This role is based at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, with hybrid working also available.
About the role
As a Finance Assistant, your role will focus particularly on our purchase invoice processes, including accurately ensuring all purchase invoices are processed, approved and paid. You will support other areas of finance operations when required and always provide a client-focused service to non-finance colleagues and to the Group's suppliers and customers.
We are looking to make improvements over the coming year to improve the efficiency and control in the process. Therefore, you will be encouraged to actively suggest process and system improvements relating to payables/sales areas.
About you
Joining us you will have a desire to work towards an accounting qualification, or to gain a good foundation knowledge in finance. You will have previous experience in a finance/customer service/administration focused role and will be able to work well as part of a team.
Crucially, you will have the ability to prioritise multiple tasks effectively, with good administration skills and time management, ensuring you can remain organised and complete multiple tasks efficiently and with a good standard of accuracy. You will have good IT skills with the ability to work with data and use a variety of Microsoft Office packages (including Excel).
Applying
View the Vacancy Information Pack listed under 'Attachments' on the vacancy listing on our website for more details about the role and the application process, or click 'Apply Online' to submit an application.
Don't feel you meet all of the criteria? At SMG, we are committed to building a workforce that is open for all, and welcome you to apply, even if your experience doesn't fit perfectly. With your transferable skills, you could be the right candidate for this, or other opportunities that we have.
What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We understand that work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer the perks listed below, as well as support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.
- Support with personal and professional development
- 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced contributory pension
- Unmind App and other wellbeing support
- Interest-free loans
- Days Out discounts
- Health & Dental Insurance
Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures.