Finance Administrator
| Posting date: | 19 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 March 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B45 9PZ |
| Company: | SSP Food Travel Experts |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1464443143 |
Summary
About the Role
Working within the wider Finance team, this role provides dedicated financial and administrative support to the IT department. Core responsibilities include raising purchase orders, validating IT invoices, supporting monthly recharges and reallocations, and managing stock holding postings. The role will also support other Accounts Payable and Receivable activities. With opportunities to grow and take on further responsibilities within the finance team.
The role involves frequent collaboration with IT stakeholders, suppliers, and cross‑functional colleagues to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and strong financial control.
What you'll be doing:
- Raise, track and receipt IT purchase orders, ensuring correct coding and approvals.
- Provide day‑to‑day business partnering support to the IT team, helping them understand costs and processes.
- Validate IT supplier invoices, ensuring alignment to POs, contracts, and services delivered.
- Manage journal postings for IT recharges, reallocations and corrections.
- Complete and validate IT stock holding postings, ensuring accurate month-end reporting.
- Support month-end close by preparing accruals, prepayments, and relevant supporting documentation.
- Assist with reviewing and explaining P&L variances for expenditure lines.
- Work closely with AP to resolve invoice holds, mismatches, and supplier queries.
- Maintain strong relationships with IT suppliers and support timely payment and query resolution.
- Maintain accurate documentation and audit ready records.
- Support internal and external audit requests.
- Provide ad‑hoc reporting and administrative support to the Finance and IT teams
- Support wider finance team with ad-hoc work
To be successful in this role you will need:
Essential
- Experience in an Accounts Assistant/Administrator or similar finance support role
- Strong Excel skills (lookups, basic formulas, filters)
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong communication skills and confidence dealing with non-finance stakeholders
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities
- Proactive, organised and solutions‑focused attitude
Desirable
- Experience using SAP S4
- Experience supporting technical/IT departments
- AAT (or equivalent) studying or qualified
Ready to start the best part of your journey?
Join us at SSP and play a key role in shaping the financial performance of our Rail Gourmet business — where your insight, collaboration, and ownership will help drive our success across the UK and beyond.
At SSP, we value diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects a range of backgrounds, skills and perspectives.
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