Senior Finance Officer

Location: NDM Operations – Finance Shared Service Centre located within the Building for Genomic Medicine, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7BN

Salary: Standard Grade 6: Salary in range £35,681 - £41,636 per annum. This is inclusive of a pensionable Oxford University Weighting of £1,730 per year.  

We are seeking a Senior Finance Officer to join the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM). Reporting to the Deputy Head of Financial Management, you will play a key role in supporting the production of management accounts, annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, while ensuring that strong financial controls are consistently applied. You will be responsible for a range of processing activities, compliance checks and reporting, providing essential financial support across the Department.

In this role, you will process accruals and prepayments, update and maintain contract registers, and prepare journals for both General Ledger and Project Ledger in Oracle Financials. You will support recharge cost centres, ensuring timely raising of invoices, and help with SRF financial processes, internal trade, and AAP cash advances. You will also input and amend budgets and forecasts, prepare balance sheet reconciliations, and carry out month-end and year-end procedures. The post will involve running and distributing regular reports, responding to queries, undertaking user acceptance testing for new systems, and ensuring compliance with University finance and purchasing policy.

You will liaise with colleagues across the Department and University, supporting unit Finance Managers with SAP access, P2P approvals and expense processing. You will also contribute to departmental activities, provide cover for other Finance Officers when needed, and take part in training and public engagement activities.

It is essential that you should be AAT qualified or hold an equivalent accounting qualification, and be studying towards (or willing to study towards) ACCA, CIMA or an equivalent professional qualification. A study package is available to support you through achieving your professional qualification. Strong numerical ability, IT literacy, and experience with spreadsheets and accounting software are essential, as are excellent communication skills and the ability to prioritise a varied workload while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail. You should be confident working both independently and as part of a team, with a flexible and customer-focused approach. Experience with Oracle Financials and an understanding of budgets, forecasts and variance analysis would be an advantage.

Applications for this vacancy should be made online via the above ‘Apply’ button and you will need to upload a supporting statement and CV. Your supporting statement must explain how you meet each of the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience. Please restrict your documentation to your CV and supporting statement only. Any other documents will be requested at a later date.

This position is offered on a full-time, permanent basis.  

Only applications received before 12 midday on 14 October 2025 will be considered. Please quote 182199 on all correspondence.

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