Finance Purchasing Technician

Adecco; Bath; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Adecco is recruiting a Finance Purchasing Technician in Bath to support a director and enhance the Faculty Purchasing function. The role involves advising colleagues on financial procedures, overseeing purchasing requests, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience in finance or purchasing and possess strong organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience in finance, purchasing, or administration.
• Experience maintaining accurate records and managing workloads with competing priorities.
• Good working knowledge of standard IT packages.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on financial procedures to colleagues.
• Oversee purchasing requests using the Finance Office TopDesk system.
• Liaise with team members regarding complex queries.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Numeracy

Organization Skills

Education

Education to A Level or equivalent

Finance or Purchasing qualification

Job description

Adecco are recruiting for an Purchasing Administrator to support their director for one of their clients to start as soon as possible.

The successful candidate will:

To support members of the Faculty Finance team and the Faculty Technical Services Team. The post holder will contribute to the smooth running of the Faculty Purchasing function within the Finance team. The post holder will ensure that processes are fully compliant with current financial regulations and procedures.

Duties:

Provide written and ad hoc verbal advice to academic, research, technical and administrative colleagues about compliance with financial procedures
Oversee all purchasing requests and enquires using the Finance Office TopDesk system
Liaise with other team members with complex queries when required.Essential:

Work experience in a relevant field such as finance, purchasing, stores or warehouse.

Experience of maintaining clear and accurate records, attentive to detail

Good working knowledge of standard IT packages and databases.

Experience of effectively organising a busy workload with sometimes conflicting priorities, to meet deadlines

A high degree of numeracy

Strong management and organisation skills.

Qualifications:

Education to A Level (or equivalent) or equivalent relevant professional experience

Purchasing, finance or customer service qualification or equivalent work experience.

The role is 4 days per week, preferable Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we can be flexible as long as Monday and Friday are covered.

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Next steps:

Apply today, the client is looking for someone to interview and start as soon as possible!
This position will be working from in store with COVID-19 procedures in place
Please apply today with your up to date CV. The Small Print

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Job Info

Job Title:

Finance Purchasing Technician

Company:

Location:

Bath, Somerset

Posted:

Closes:

Jul 20th 2025

Sector:

Administration

Contract:

Temporary

Hours:

Full Time

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