Summary: The Finance Operations Coordinator role is a 5-month contract position based in Whiteley, Fareham, focused on providing essential support to the Finance Operations Team. The position is ideal for entry-level candidates seeking to develop a career in finance while gaining hands-on experience in financial operations. Responsibilities include managing financial tasks, supporting team members, and ensuring compliance with finance policies. The role offers a structured environment for building a foundation in finance operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the Finance Operations team with routine financial tasks, such as raising invoices and gathering financial data from business units.
• Manage the shared finance mailbox, assigning queries to team members and tracking their resolution.
• Support with various finance-related tasks, including setting up standard templates, preparing draft documents, handling basic SAP data requests, and working with large datasets.
• Maintain and update standard month-end documents, including accrual templates, cost transfer data, and Planner tasks.
• Ensure consistent use of tools and processes, such as SharePoint and MS Planner, by monitoring permissions and proper metadata usage.
• Provide guidance to team members on using templates and tools, ensuring uniformity in financial documentation.
• Standardize the formatting of published documents, reports, and presentations.
• Maintain and update SharePoint site links and permissions to ensure accuracy and relevance.
• Take meeting minutes, track action items, and monitor their completion using an action log.
• Assist in onboarding new team members by managing onboarding trackers, submitting service requests for system access, and coordinating equipment needs.
• Adhere to Finance Operations policies and broader financial and business procedures.

Key Skills:

• Entry-level finance role; candidates should have a keen interest in developing a finance career and be pursuing or planning to pursue a relevant finance qualification.
• Strong proficiency in O365 tools, including Teams, Excel (intermediate level), SharePoint (document management and site management), MS Planner, and Word.
• Basic SAP skills are preferred.
• Proactive and supportive approach to assisting team members and stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with confidence to address process compliance with staff at all levels.
• Strong attention to detail and high standards of accuracy.
• Well-organized with a logical and structured approach to tasks.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Whiteley

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: Entry Level

Industry: Other