Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges.

A new opportunity to join our Finance team as a Accounts Payable Assistant. This is a 2 year fixed term role.

About the role:
You will be responsible for providing a comprehensive Accounts Payable service to the Institute, including process staff expense claims, matching Purchase Order invoices and invoice authentication for non-purchase order invoices. Liaising with all levels of staff within the institute and suppliers to ensure all invoices are processed in a timely manner.

Essential Skills:

• Experience of working in a high volume purchase ledger department.
  
• Confident in dealing with internal and external people through all communication channels.
  
• Ability to organize and prioritize own workloads.
  
• Computer literate, in particular Microsoft Excel.
  
• Flexible approach to be able to respond to changes in workload at short notice.
  
• Accuracy in data entry
  

About You:
An experienced Accounts Payable Assistant who is used to working in a large organization, dealing with large volumes of invoices and queries and working to deadlines, along with experience of processing expense claims.

About Us:

We provide support for the Wellcome Genome Campus, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Institute spin-out companies to enable our scientists to deliver their science at scale. To do this we plan for future needs, coordinate forecasts, provide risk analysis and management, oversee grant submissions and management, procure equipment, consumables and services, and ensure a good control environment.

We are part of the Financial Accounting team who are part of the larger finance team at Sanger who provide support and guidance for all programs on the campus.

Other Information:

• Salary in the region of £27,000
  
• Hybrid working pattern
  

Closing date for applications: 5th January, 2025

Hybrid Working at Wellcome Sanger:

We recognise that there are many benefits to Hybrid Working; including an improved work-life balance, with more focused time, as well as the ability to organise working time so that collaborative opportunities and team discussions are facilitated on campus. The hybrid working arrangement will vary for different roles and teams. The nature of your role and the type of work you do will determine if a hybrid working arrangement is possible.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

We aim to attract, recruit, retain and develop talent from the widest possible talent pool, thereby gaining insight and access to different markets to generate a greater impact on the world. We have a supportive culture with the following staff networks, LGBTQ+, Parents and Carers, Disability and Race Equity to bring people together to share experiences, offer specific support and development opportunities and raise awareness. The networks are also a place for allies to provide support to others.

We want our people to be whoever they want to be because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work. That's why we're committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at Sanger Institute. We will consider all individuals without discrimination and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, where everyone can thrive.

Our Benefits:

We are proud to deliver an awarding campus-wide employee wellbeing strategy and programme. The importance of good health and adopting a healthier lifestyle and the commitment to reduce work-related stress is strongly acknowledged and recognised at Sanger Institute.

Sanger Institute became a signatory of the International Technician Commitment initiative In March 2018. The Technician Commitment aims to empower and ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research, across all disciplines.