Finance Assistant – Payments

About Us

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

About the role

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Finance Assistant is a key member of the operations team and is responsible for ensuring that all supplier invoices/credit notes and payment requests are prepared to be processed and matched against the correct purchase order with the team in line with SLA target of 2 working days.

About you

Essential criteria:

· Experience of working in a Finance Office in an AP role

· Experience of matching purchase orders

· FocalPoint and Dimensions experience

· Educated to GCSE (or equivalent) standard

· Accuracy and attention to detail

· Flexibility with working hours where necessary

· Excellent communication skills

· Ability to meet deadlines

· MS Excel knowledge and experience

Desirable criteria:

· Commitment to the Museum and its values

· Willingness to study

Personal Qualities:

· Flexibility and ability to manage own workload to meet strict deadlines

· Excellent written and oral communication skills

· Commitment to ‘customer satisfaction’

· Team Player

· Pro-Active

· Ability to use own initiative

· Good at problem solving

· Sharing Knowledge

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work
We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.

Find out more here

What we offer

· 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent)

· Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%)

· Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan

· Life insurance

· Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.

· Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes

· We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.

· Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sitesand other national treasures. For more details, visit https://www.cssc.co.uk

· Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

How to apply

If that sounds like you, please apply online on the Natural History Museum’s careers portal,

at https://careers.nhm.ac.uk/

Closing date: 9am, Friday 28th April 2023

Interviews expected on the 12th or 15thMay 2023

Salary: £27,231 per annum

Please note that this role does not qualify for Museum sponsorship so the successful postholder will need to have a valid right to work in the UK at the point of offer..

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £27,231.00 per year

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Flexitime
• Gym membership
• On-site gym
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London, SW7 5BD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London, SW7 5BD

Application deadline: 28/04/2023
Reference ID: Natural History Museum