Finance Officer - Shared Services

The Finance Officer provides customer-focused finance and procurement support to the VPR portfolio. The role ensures efficient and compliant day-to-day purchasing, supports staff in using procurement processes correctly, and promotes best practice across purchase-to-pay activities. The position also supports revenue generation and financial management by developing, maintaining, and updating costing and pricing for research infrastructures and platforms, in alignment with institutional strategy, offering competitiveness, and approved costing principles.

Responsibilities include providing customer-focused procurement and finance support, processing purchase requisitions, receipting, and purchase-to-pay activities, acting as the main point of contact for purchase order, invoice, and payment-related queries, developing and updating costing and pricing for research infrastructure services, coordinating with Core Labs and Platform teams, preparing accurate project-based quotations, ensuring pricing is competitive and maintained in internal systems, preparing and processing customer and supplier invoices, monitoring invoice status through to payment, ensuring correct financial coding and allocation of costs, and supporting audits and continuous improvement.

Requirements include a Bachelor degree in finance, accounting, supply chain, business administration, or related discipline, 4 years of experience in finance, procurement, or administrative support, strong organisational skills, and experience working with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar financial and procurement platforms.