Finance Assistant

Advance HE; York; Hybrid; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Advance HE is looking for a Finance Assistant to support the Finance Operations team. This role involves assisting with daily financial processes, managing travel bookings, and offering customer support across various finance activities. In return, enjoy benefits like a generous pension plan, enhanced family leave, and flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous pension plan with USS

Enhanced family leave benefits

31 days’ annual leave pro-rata plus bank holidays

Flexible working hours

Remote/Hybrid work options

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proficiency with Excel and numerical tasks.

Responsibilities

• Assist in daily, weekly, and monthly financial transactional processes.
• Administer external travel booking system and month-end/year-end tasks.
• Provide high-quality customer support and liaise with third parties.

Skills

Attention to detail

Excel proficiency

Numerical skills

Job description

Job Description

Reporting to the Finance Operations Manager, the Finance Assistant will assist in various accurate daily, weekly, and monthly transactional processes, including purchases, expenses, bank and assets management. The role also involves administration and support of the external travel booking system, month-end and year-end tasks, and providing agile, proactive, high-quality customer support across the organization while liaising with third parties.

Job Requirements

If you are great with numbers and Excel, have good attention to detail and accuracy, this might be the job for you.

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We operate this vacancy on a rolling recruitment basis. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. A technical assessment will be part of the selection process.

Job Benefits

Advance HE is seeking a Finance Assistant to support our team in ensuring smooth finance operations, accurate financial processing, records, and data maintenance, and providing valuable support across various finance activities.

In return, you'll receive a range of benefits including:

• A generous pension plan with USS
• Enhanced family leave benefits
• 31 days’ annual leave pro-rata plus bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Remote/Hybrid work options

The full-time salary for this role is £29,333 per annum.

Advance HE is a member-led, sector-owned charity working with institutions and higher education worldwide to improve higher education for staff, students, and society. Our strategic priorities include maximising membership impact, supporting leadership and governance development, and developing educational excellence for the future.

We focus on enhancing teaching and learning, effective governance, leadership development, and addressing inequalities through our EDI work. We deliver support via professional development, fellowships, awards, surveys, strategic consultancy, and membership services including accreditation and research.

We collaborate with a global network of partners and experts to understand challenges and deliver solutions. Our people and those we serve are at the heart of everything we do.