Financial Transactions Officer

Rolls-Royce SMR; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Rolls-Royce SMR as a Financial Transactions Officer and oversee finance operations with a focus on accounts management and compliance. The role offers hybrid working flexibility and a significant salary starting from £40,000, highlighting the company's commitment to innovation and sustainable energy.

Benefits

Performance Related Bonus of 12.5%

Benefits Allowance - £2,200

Pension Contributions

28 days holiday + public holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

One-off payment for home office purchases

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in management of accounts receivable and payable.
• Strong 'firm but fair' personality to ensure adherence to policies.
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Oversee accounts receivable and payable functions.
• Ensure timely and accurate processing of financial transactions.
• Manage month-end closing activities and reconciliations.

Skills

Relationship Building

Organizational Skills

Microsoft Excel

Tools

SAP Ariba

SAP S/4 HANA

Job description

Ref: 379

Department: Finance

Location: Derby, Manchester, Warrington

Employment type: Full-time, Part-time

Salary: £40,000 - £52,500

Closing date: 06/07/2025

Role Related

Role Title: Financial Transactions Officer

We anticipate paying a salary from £40,000 - £52,500 DOE

Location: Derby, Warrington OR Manchester offices - Hybrid working flexibility

We are Rolls-Royce SMR and we’re doing something that’s never been done before. We’re revolutionising an industry. That’s a once-in-a-career opportunity for those excited by such a challenge. This is more than just a job; this is a legacy.

Rolls Royce SMR is a bold and ambitious company with a highly skilled workforce that operates at pace to maintain competitive advantage and to succeed on our vision to deliver affordable energy for all.

Role Purpose:

The Finance Transactions Officer is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the finance transactions team, ensuring the accurate and efficient processing of financial activities across accounts receivable, accounts payable, and banking functions. The Finance Transactions Officer also ensures compliance with internal policies, supports cross-functional collaboration—particularly with customer-facing and supply chain teams—and delivers accurate internal reporting and balance sheet reconciliations to support informed decision-making.

Key Responsibilities and Required Experience:

This role plays a key part in maintaining financial integrity through effective debt management, timely supplier payments, and robust reconciliation processes.

Role will join Financial Control team (total team size of 6 perm staff and 3 temp) and will be part of a wider Finance team, with a total of 17 perm/temp staff. Supervisory responsibility for 1-2 individuals, initially although will potentially increase as the organisation scales up.

• Management of accounts receivable function, including raising of invoices when needed and debt management in alignment with customer facing teams
• Produce quality, relevant internal reporting
• Management of accounts payable function, ensuring efficient and accurate processing and exception resolution by the AP Administrator(s)
• Travel & subsistence expenses management
• Produce quality, relevant internal reporting
• Oversee month-end closing activities on relevant balance sheet accounts by ensuring all receivable, payable and banking transactions are recorded and reconciled
• Oversee daily bank reconciliation process
• Produce quality, relevant internal reporting
• Build and maintain an efficient and effective relationship with the Procurement & Supply Chain team
• Handle internal and external queries related to invoices, payments, and account discrepancies in a timely and professional manner, including escalations from the accounts payable clerks
• Identify and suggest improvements to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the accounts payable process
  
  

Mandatory Experience, Training Or/and Qualifications

• Extensive experience in management of accounts receivable and accounts payable ledgers and teams
• Strong relationship building and organisational skills
• Strong “firm but fair” personality/approach to ensure company policies and procedures are adhered to by internal and external stakeholders
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
  
  

Beneficial Experience, Training Or/and Qualifications

Experience with SAP preferred, specifically SAP Ariba and SAP S/4 HANA

Why Join Us?

You will be joining a forward-thinking organization that values transparency, fairness, and innovation in its reward philosophy. You will play a key role in shaping the way we attract, retain, and motivate our talent.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you.

Also, if you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch, we welcome applications from people with transferable skills.

Pay And Benefits

We anticipate paying a salary of between £40,000 - £52,500 DOE plus:-

• Bonus - Performance related target opportunity 12.5%
• Benefits Allowance – £2,200 per annum, enabling you to create a bespoke package
• Pension - 12% employer and 6% employee contributions.
• Holidays - 28 days holiday (+ public holidays) and the ability to buy or sell up to 4 days.
• Private Medical Insurance - BUPA single cover health care
• Life Assurance - 6x pensionable pay
• £250 - One-off payment for new starters for home office purchases
  
  

Company Related

We are Rolls-Royce SMR

Rolls-Royce SMR is a rare employer because it blends the world-class brand of Rolls Royce with an exciting start-up that has a hugely challenging mission. We’re doing work that contributes to the survival of the planet. Because of our mission, there’s a pace and energy that is palpable, and our leaders draw you in with their passion, energy, and determination.

We’re one of a handful of employers who can genuinely say we’re a strengths-based organisation – our people are here because of what makes them great, and our job is to help them make the best contribution of their careers doing work they love.

The start-up mentality coupled with our strengths-approach to people means there are opportunities to grow in ways and jobs you probably would be barred from doing in more traditional companies.

Each Rolls-Royce SMR power station will have the capacity to generate 470MW of low carbon energy, equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes. It will provide consistent baseload generation for at least 60 years, helping to support the roll out of renewable generation and overcome intermittency issues

Our Culture

At Rolls-Royce SMR, we are committed to ensuring that our teams reflect the communities we serve and that everyone can be themselves at work. We know that diverse teams are more innovative and get better results, and that our people can thrive and be more successful in truly inclusive cultures. Join us and help shape our culture. Find out more about our inclusion pledge.

Rolls-Royce SMR is a place where everyone can grow, so whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day and help shape our culture.

Our Application Process

Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:

Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance

Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check