P/T Finance Assistant - 12 month FTC

UK Atomic Energy Authority; Abingdon; Vor Ort; GBP 24.000 - 30.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

7% corporate performance bonus

Employer pension contribution 21.5%

25 days annual leave

Site closure over Christmas

Flexible working options

Family-friendly leave provisions

Zusammenfassung

UK Atomic Energy Authority is seeking a part-time Finance Assistant to provide essential financial and administrative support to the Finance Directorate. You will handle queries, ERP administration and routine accounting activities, helping maintain accurate financial records and data integrity.

The role is 3 days per week, onsite, with opportunities to contribute to budget, journals and reporting while supporting a capable finance team in a dynamic environment.

Qualifikationen

• Previous experience in an administrative or finance support role.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office and databases or ERP systems.
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships.
• A proactive approach with the ability to manage your workload and work independently when required.
• A flexible and collaborative approach, with a willingness to support a variety of finance and administrative activities.

Aufgaben

• Provide day-to-day support to colleagues across the business, responding to finance-related queries and resolving routine issues.
• Support key financial processes, including period-end activities, journals, budgets and financial reporting.
• Maintain financial data within the ERP system, including work orders, delegations and other finance structures.
• Assist with timesheet administration, goods receipting, audit queries and other routine finance activities.
• Support financial planning, reporting and asset verification processes to help ensure accurate financial records.
• Test finance system updates and support continuous improvements to financial processes.
• Provide administrative support across the Finance team, including covering colleagues where required and assisting Finance Apprentices.
• Maintain accurate financial records and handle confidential information with discretion.

Kenntnisse

Finance administration

Excel

Microsoft Office

ERP systems

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Tools

ERP systems

Jobbeschreibung

About us

Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our worldbadly needs. UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industryand research organisations to achieveground-breaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the gridby developing the power stations of tomorrow and the skilled workforce to deliver them.

About the Job

As a Finance Assistant, you'll provide essential financial and administrative support to the Finance Directorate, helping to ensure the smooth running of key financial processes across UKAEA. Working as part of a collaborative team, you'll support colleagues with financial queries, reporting, ERP system administration and routine accounting activities, while contributing to the accuracy and integrity of financial information. This is an excellent opportunity to develop a career in finance within a supportive and dynamic environment.

This is a part time, 3 day per week role.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide day-to-day support to colleagues across the business, responding to finance-related queries and resolving routine issues.
• Support key financial processes, including period-end activities, journals, budgets and financial reporting.
• Maintain financial data within the ERP system, including work orders, delegations and other finance structures.
• Assist with timesheet administration, goods receipting, audit queries and other routine finance activities.
• Support financial planning, reporting and asset verification processes to help ensure accurate financial records.
• Test finance system updates and support continuous improvements to financial processes.
• Provide administrative support across the Finance team, including covering colleagues where required and assisting Finance Apprentices.
• Maintain accurate financial records and handle confidential information with discretion.

What You'll Bring

• Previous experience in an administrative or finance support role.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office and databases or ERP systems.
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships.
• A proactive approach with the ability to manage your workload and work independently when required.
• A flexible and collaborative approach, with a willingness to support a variety of finance and administrative activities.

UKAEA is an onsite organisation, and this role requires regular onsite presence (usually 3 days per week) in line with business needs. We actively support flexible working arrangements where this is compatible with the role

Benefits

We have a generous range of benefits (see the full list here) and highlights include:

• A salary of £27202
• Up to 7% corporate performance bonus
• Final salary defined benefits pension scheme with an equivalent of21.5% employer pension contribution
• 25 days annual leave plus2.5 privilege days;8 Bank Holidays
• 3 days of site closure over Christmas break
• Flexible working options plus family-friendly leave provisions

Our commitment to ED&I

UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds to help us achieve this goal. We are committed to equality, diversity,inclusionand accessibility, and strive to ensure fair representation across our workforce.

Please email [e-mail] if you have any questions or require adjustments to help you participate fairly in our recruitment process, for example changes to the way we interview or share information. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience for all candidates.

We particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in STEM, including women and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. All appointments are made onmeritand further information can be found here.