Finance & Income Administrator

Role Description

Department

The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) is a highly respected international research organisation conducting policy-relevant environmental and sustainable development research around the world. We are recruiting a Finance & Income Administrator who will be part of the SEI York Administration team. 

SEI York has a broad research profile covering five main research areas: air quality and climate change; critical environmental governance; sustainable consumption and production; urban environments, human health, and wellbeing; and citizen science. We aim to ensure that there is a supportive culture at all levels and across all staff groups and offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements. 

At SEI York we make every effort to conduct our work in line with the University's Sustainability Plan. We firmly believe in working in a resource-efficient manner, minimising impacts on the environment wherever possible. We have an Environment Rep and a Green Impact Team in the Centre who support staff in this endeavour.

Role

As a Finance and Income Administrator, you will be the first point of contact for financial income queries and requests. You will play a key role in the Centre’s financial month end processes by preparing project timesheet data for invoicing to project funders, and supporting invoice and journal preparation. Other role specific responsibilities would include:  

• Coordinating and undertaking auditable processes for expense claim forms, cash proforma, year-end accruals, core Centre workorder requests, raising adhoc invoice requests and new customer requests, monitoring and processing postgraduate funding requests for research training support grants.
• Providing cover for the SEI York Finance Administrator when required, including being a second purchase card holder for the centre.
• Monitoring and processing income, expenditure and payments across Centre accounts.
• Maintaining an auditable financial filing system, accurately recording and processing financial transactions.
• Acting as the main finance system user; running queries/ reports and answering staff queries as required; carrying out the finance functions and advising other Agresso users in the team;  ensuring effective housekeeping of the Agresso finance system.

This is a part-time post working 18.50 hours a week on a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

Skills, Experience & Qualification needed

We are looking for an enthusiastic, diligent and adaptable individual, who has a thorough knowledge of administrative and / or financial processes and procedures. and who has prior experience of working in a busy office environment. This role will appeal to someone who enjoys a variety of tasks, who is proactive and who can work and communicate well with others. You will need to work to a very high degree of accuracy and to manage your own priorities. 

Interview date: To be confirmed

For informal enquiries: please contact Emma Holland on sei-admin-manager@york.ac.uk. 

The University strives to be diverse and inclusive  – a place where we can ALL be ourselves.

We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University. 

We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff. #EqualityatYork

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum (essential) criteria for each position will be offered an interview.  Read more about the University of York’s commitments under the Disability Confident scheme.