Finance Officer

At the University of Bradford, our focus is on creating the conditions for social, cultural, and economic impact. We are committed to social inclusion. Our work to expand opportunity and enable students to reach their potential has led to us topping the Social Mobility Index of English universities for the last five years. Our University Strategy sets out our ambitions for 2025, which we will achieve by using our proud heritage as a springboard and remaining steadfast in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

The University of Bradford is seeking a motivated, detail-oriented Finance Officer to support the delivery of an efficient finance business partnering service. You will support Finance Business Partnering by handling transactions, resolving queries, and ensuring data accuracy, while contributing to a responsive, customer-focused service.

We are looking for a reliable, organised individual with experience in finance or administration, strong attention to detail, and good communication skills.

Responsibilities:

- Prepare management accounts and financial reports, budgets and forecasts within agreed deadlines.
- Complete monthly staff reconciliations with analysis of variances.
- Analyse financial data and nominal ledger transactions, investigating variances against budget and processing corrections and month-end journals where required.

Qualifications and Experience:

- 5 GCSEs at Grade A, B or C, including English and Mathematics.

If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to arrange an informal conversation with the hiring manager. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits:

- 25 days holiday and 13 statutory and customary days (taken at Easter and Christmas).
- Family-friendly policies.
- Unique fitness centre, eye clinic, physiotherapy and sports rehabilitation, counselling and mental health services, on-site nursery, and food and drink outlets on campus.
- Generous employer contribution pension scheme.
- Generous benefit schemes including car leasing, cycle to work, holiday purchase, home and technology scheme, and shopping discounts.