Senior Finance Assistant

OMass Therapeutics; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a detail-oriented Senior Finance Assistant to enhance their finance team. This role involves managing accounts payable processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance, and implementing automation to improve efficiency. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment and possess strong organizational skills. With a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including private health insurance and learning opportunities, this position offers a chance to contribute significantly to financial operations while working collaboratively in a dynamic team environment.

Benefits

Private Health Insurance

Health and wellbeing cashback scheme

Life Assurance and Income Protection

Employee Equity Scheme

25 days annual leave

Pension Scheme with 6% employer contribution

Learning and Development Opportunities

Company social events

Qualifications

• Experience managing accounts payable in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in using finance systems and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage the company's accounts payable processes for accuracy and efficiency.
• Streamline and automate invoice processing and bank reconciliations.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Time management

Accounts payable best practices

Process improvement

Problem-solving skills

Analytical skills

Tools

Microsoft Excel

NetSuite

OCR invoice processing

Job description

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Job title: Senior Finance Assistant

Job type: Full-time

Location: Oxford

Salary: Competitive salary

Right to work: You must have the right to work in the UK

Application deadline: 7th April 2025

OMass Therapeutics is a biotechnology company based in Oxford discovering medicines against highly- validated target ecosystems, such as membrane proteins or intracellular complexes. The companys unique OdyssION technology platform comprises novel biochemistry techniques, next-generation native mass spectrometry, and custom chemistry. OMass is advancing a pipeline of small molecule therapeutics in rare diseases and immunological conditions, that target solute carriers, complex-bound proteins, and GPCRs.

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Finance Assistant to join our Finance team. The ideal candidate will have excellent attention to detail, experience managing accounts payable in a fast-paced environment and experience implementing systems and automating processes.

This role will be responsible for managing the company's accounts payable processes, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance in financial transactions. A key focus of this role will be to streamline and automate processes, improving the efficiency of invoice processing, bank reconciliations, and other AP-related workflows.

To find out more about the meaningful work OMass delivers, as well as our EVP, you can find this here https://www.omass.com/

Requirements

Required Experience and Skills

• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise and deliver high-quality work to deadlines
• Strong understanding of AP best practices, reconciliations, and tax regulations related to accounts payable.
• Proven experience in a fast-paced Accounts Payable, with a track record of process improvements and automation.
• Experience with finance systems and automation tools (e.g., OCR invoice processing, automated bank reconciliations).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and accounting software (e.g. NetSuite).
• Innovative and ambitious mindset, strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Caring and inclusive, respectful and receptive to others diverse ideas, experience and perspectives, and enjoys working collaboratively with others as a team.
  
  

Role Responsibilities

Accounts payable

• Ensure timely and accurate processing of invoices, including managing the AP inbox, verifying approvals, coding, and resolving any discrepancies
• Maintain up-to-date supplier records and verify supplier details
• Handle supplier queries related to payments, invoices, and account reconciliations
• Prepare and process BACS payment batches for suppliers and staff expenses
• Support month-end and year-end closing activities related to accounts payable
• Carry out bank reconciliations
• Review and process employee expenses for payment
  
  

Financial reporting

• Support with the preparation of accruals and prepayments
• Support with monthly and ad-hoc financial reporting tasks
  
  

Process improvement and automation

• Identify opportunities to streamline AP-related workflows (invoice processing, reconciliations, payment processes, etc)
• Implement new systems and ways of working to automate AP-related workflows, and drive organisational change management
• Establish best practices and drive continuous improvements in AP and other Financial operations processes
  
  

Benefits

OMass offers an excellent benefits package, including:

• Private Health Insurance
• Health and wellbeing cashback scheme
• Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Participation in the Employee Equity Scheme
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Pension Scheme offering 6% employer contribution
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Company social events
  
  

OMass Therapeutics values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity; we also have full responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to work and live in the UK.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance

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