Management Accounts Assistant (Permanent & FTC)

Roles Available: 1 Permanent and 1 Six month Fixed Term Contract , please confirm in your cover statement which role/s you're applying for.

Whether you are talking about length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount or the brightness of light, the National Physical Laboratory sets the standards by which these things are all measured. Our range of products and services need to be commercially viable. At NPL, we touch ordinary lives in extraordinary ways and you could too?

We have an exciting opportunity available to join the collaborative and friendly Management Accounting team, working alongside the Finance Business Partner and Assistant Finance Managers, you will assist with multiple departments and provide administrative and accounting support.

What you will be doing

• Providing administrative and accounting support - month-end processing and accounting, preparing grant claims and audits, creating projects, and performing housekeeping activities
• Running reports, expense transfers, invoicing, and journals
• Supporting with budget and quarterly forecasts.
• Supporting Group Leaders and Project Managers
• You will also have opportunities to support with ad-hoc projects, this will expand your knowledge in a finance team that is undergoing significant change due to the adoption of a new Accounting system.

This role is known internally as 'Finance Technician'

Experience and Skills that you can bring to the role:

• Working in a busy, fast paced finance department
• A strong customer focus
• Effective communication skills
• Working with large data sets
• Attention to detail
• IT skills and familiar with Microsoft office
• AAT qualified or equivalent

We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency, and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance.

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical.