Finance Administrator (FM12339)

Job title Finance Administrator

Department Engineering & Design - Faculty Office

Salary Starting from £26,038, rising to £29,659

Grade Grade 5

Contract Type Part Time, Open Ended

Placed on Monday 16 December 2024

Closing date Monday 13 January 2025

Interview date Tuesday 28 January 2025

Reference FM12339

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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Join the renowned Faculty of Engineering & Design, celebrated for its research excellence and teaching quality.

We are seeking a proactive and motivated Finance Administrator to play a crucial role in managing our finances, including purchasing, invoice processing, and budget monitoring.

You will support the Finance Manager in the provision of effective and efficient operational financial management services across the Faculty, ensuring compliance with the University's financial regulations and procedures. You will provide advice to academics and other staff on day-to-day financial matters, including the budgetary position for departments, monitoring of research grants and other activities within the Faculty, providing timely, regular and accurate financial information.

In fulfilling these functions, you will foster and maintain a collaborative working relationship with the Faculty Accountant and fellow members of the Finance Office and influence staff to apply good financial practice and planning.

This position is offered on a part-time basis for 21.9 hours per week (Monday-Wednesday). The team use a hybrid working model with a mix of on- campus and remote work.

Our ideal candidate will:

For an informal discussion, please contact the Finance Manager, Tracey Halliday, at (01225) 384617 or email [email protected].

The Faculty of Engineering & Design comprises four top-performing departments specializing in architectural, engineering, and design disciplines. Our research-led teaching aligns with industry needs, ensuring excellent career opportunities for graduates. Join our vibrant and dynamic Faculty Professional Services Team, where we work collaboratively and creatively to support our academic goals. As holders of the AUA Mark of Excellence, we are committed to professional development and celebrating career successes.

What we can offer you:

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.