Finance & Governance Officer: Own Core Ops & Compliance

Meridian Cambridge; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Lunches and snacks provided

Access to Meridian events and research

Job summary

Meridian Cambridge is seeking a hands-on finance administrator to own day-to-day finance operations, ensure records are accurate, and act as a second set of eyes across finance and governance. The role provides breadth beyond bookkeeping, with support toward a professional qualification and potential study assistance.

You will process expenses, invoices, payroll data, and month-end tasks, while contributing to budgets, cashflow, and compliance.

Qualifications

• Judgement and common sense in routine and unusual situations.
• Attention to accurate data, documentation and reconciliation.
• Willingness to take ownership and drive things through to completion.
• Comfort with detailed financial data, processes and spreadsheets.

Responsibilities

• Finance operations: process staff expenses and reimbursements, manage invoices and payments within delegated authority, monitor for unusual activity, run the finance inbox.
• Prepare payroll information and assist month-end/year-end with timely recurring processes.
• Budgets and financial information: pull data into project budgets and cash flow, explain status in plain language to non-finance leads.
• Governance and compliance: contribute to a strong governance framework and resolve or assign policy and compliance questions.
• Systems and process improvement: document recurring processes, streamline manual work, and implement better controls.

Skills

Judgement and common sense

Detail orientation

Ownership

Comfortable with the detail

Strong spreadsheet skills

Tools

Airtable

Zapier

Job description

Meridian Cambridge is seeking a hands-on finance administrator to own day-to-day finance operations, ensure records are accurate, and act as a second set of eyes across finance and governance. The role provides breadth beyond bookkeeping, with support toward a professional qualification and potential study assistance.

You will process expenses, invoices, payroll data, and month-end tasks, while contributing to budgets, cashflow, and compliance.