Description
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Hope you are well. I am looking to fill Finance Officer role with one of our Client. Please go through the description and let me know if you are interested.
Role: Finance Officer
Location: Oxford
Duration: 1-2 Months with possibility of extension
Rate: £11.57 per hour
Main Tasks
- Maintaining accurate financial records and investigation of records where needed.
- Provide advice and guidance for all staff on coding and related matters.
- Review all financial transactions for processing for accuracy of coding; ensuring errors amended before posting and originator advised of correct accounting for future use.
- Take a pro-active approach to progressing financial transactions, eg ensuring that orders etc. are moved through the system promptly, gaining the appropriate authorisations, so that high customer service is maintained.
- Provide advice and guidance to staff on the use of the E-procurement system, or Cedar as appropriate, and on preferred suppliers.
- Ensure that all journals are authorised and processed according to the University regulations
- Be the Faculty contact on all E-procurement transactions, liaising closely with Central Finance Purchasing Department.
- Input and maintain data on the University finance system (CEDAR).
- Process documentation for payments to staff, including Associate and overtime claims, ensuring funds are available and appropriate authorisation has been given.
- Processing purchase orders and invoices, travel claims, credit card accounts, cheque payments.
- Maintain the Faculty Chart of Accounts and ensure that this is available to all staff either in paper based format or via the Intranet site.
- Responsible recording all cash transactions, including Petty Cash for the Faculty, to include reconciliation of the imprest account and replenishing cash balances from cashiers.
- Responsible for the cash and cheque income received by the Faculty, ensuring they are kept in a safe overnight, and completing banking sheets and delivering cash and cheques to cashiers in accordance with University procedures.
- Liaising regularly with the University Central Finance Department.
- Assist in the production of management information as and when required.
- Organise hire car bookings on behalf of staff; and to co-ordinate and administer bookings for the faculty car, including monitoring collection and return (as required by each Faculty).
- Administer conference requests. Duties may include arranging travel and accommodation, and organising payment of fees.
- Monitoring and booking of field courses.
- Handle a range of queries from internal and external customers in a helpful and efficient manner.
- Liaise with School and University staff and external customers as appropriate, in person, in writing or by telephone.
- Other duties as required to provide an efficient service to the faculty