Closing Date: 30/05/2025

Department Finance

Grade Operational

Salary range £25,000 - £30,000

Contract Type Permanent

Working Hours 37 hours

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and covering letter to brchr@babraham.co.uk

About us:

The Babraham Research Campus is considered to be the UK’s leading campus to support early-stage bioscience enterprises. World class research and business come together to promote innovation and strengthen links between academia and the commercial world

Babraham Research Campus (BRC) is the company that manages and develops the Campus, supporting and promoting the regional and UK bioscience ecosystem. It has responsibility for the administration and commercial development of the site for the benefit of all the tenant companies including the Babraham Institute. The Campus provides emerging and growing biotech companies laboratory and office space together with access to outstanding scientific facilities in an ideal geographical location at the core of the Cambridge cluster. Our aim is to be the most successful bioincubator campus in Europe and to support the Cambridge region and the UK bio-science communities.

We are situated on an attractive 430-acre parkland estate, seven miles south west of Cambridge City Centre. The campus blends modern laboratory facilities with historic buildings in a spacious, beautifully landscaped setting. The campus offers the companies excellent amenities: fully-equipped meeting rooms and conferencing facilities, bar, coffee shop, a sports and social club, gym, tennis court and football pitch. A large component of the estate grounds including the wood, grass, grazing meadows and park land are opened for both the campus and the wider community to walk through and use.

Role

This role will have full responsibility for the purchase ledger processes up to and including posting of the invoices on the accounting system. This will include housekeeping of the ledger to ensure accuracy of posting and general management of supplier accounts. This role will also assist in the wider team functions of accounts receivable and cash posting. They are an integral part of the finance team underpinning the financial stability of the business through excellent supplier management.

Responsibilities

• Processing of all Purchase Order and Non purchase order invoices received, checking for accuracy and adhering to strict business processes and controls

• Ensure the relevant budget holder and value approver authorise the invoices before entry onto the system

• Attention to detail ensuring accurate coding and VAT treatment of each invoice

• Preparation of the relevant back-up to enable authorisation and coding to the right nominal codes for all relevant invoices

• Liaison with the wider business teams to get purchase orders processed and invoice queries sorted in a timely manner

• Maintaining a clean creditors ledger, reviewing and resolving aged items

• Checking of all supplier statements in a timely manner and actioning any invoice requests and/or queries arising from these

• Ensuring all invoices are stored on the Docuware document management system

• Monitoring of the finance inbox dealing with all supplier emails directly and any actions required for them and the finance helpdesk on Teams answering where relevant any internal questions

• Daily posting of payments onto the accounting system

• Monthly petty cash reconciliations

• Assisting the wider team with ad-hoc duties when requested and providing holiday cover to other finance team members when requested

• Assist in monthly management accounts where required

• Assist in the annual statutory accounts audit where required

This list is not exhaustive, and the successful candidate would be expected to undertake reasonable additional duties in support of the site operations as and when required.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• English and Maths GCSE Grade C or above (or equivalent)

• AAT Level 3 or above

Experience

• Previous Accounts Payable experience

• Experience using SAGE 200

Skills and Abilities

• Strong IT skills

• Intermediate Excel

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with financial and non-financial staff at all level

• Must be driven, inquisitive and capable of working to deadlines

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail

Company Benefits

• Pension Allowance - Babraham Research Campus Ltd. offers a Group Personal Pension Scheme and currently contributes 10.5% of salary subject to a staff contribution of 3%.

• Holiday Entitlement - 25 days p.a. plus bank Holidays and 3 privilege days for Christmas Shutdown

• Discretional Annual Bonus - Employees may be eligible for a discretional performance related bonus

• Private Healthcare

• Employee Wellbeing Service - The scheme offers confidential support, information, expert advice and specialist counselling service to all BRC employees

• Restaurant Facilities.

• Skills training is encouraged

• Onsite Accommodation - There are a number of hostels, flats and houses that can be rented. (There is currently a waiting list for all types of accommodation).

• Social - Sports & Social Club and onsite Gym

• Nursery and Holiday Playscheme on site. (Availability of places is dependent on demand).

• There is free car parking on the Campus (please note that the Campus actively pursues a green transport policy).

Any offer of employment will be subject to security screening and may be subject to health screening.