Assistant Accountant

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Vacancy ID: 12682

We are currently recruiting for a Temporary Assistant Accountant for a centrally based Oxford University Department, starting asap on a full-time basis.

Duties:

• Ensure that the financial transactions of the department are recorded in an accurate and timely manner


• Manage the patent recharges to licensees on a regular basis in preparation for the month end reconciliation between the income and expenditure accounts


• Prepare Membership Invoices
  
• Review aged purchase orders logged on the system and investigate so they can be cleared


• Reconcile Supplier statements


• Payment run for suppliers and expense claims


• Management of deferred payments


• Responding to academic and client queries on invoicing and payments


• Run queries and reports from the database and be fully conversant with this


• Prepare the OUC quarterly, half yearly and yearly statistics reporting, running reports and maintaining spreadsheets

Please be aware that all candidates need to be able to start work immediately and must be able to work on site if required to do so.

The Temporary Staffing Service supports University of Oxford departments and affiliated colleges with the recruitment of temporary admin and clerical staff. Personal information provided to the University of Oxford is held in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR and related UK data protection legislation.

Person specification

You must have previous finance experience in a similar role.