Finance Assistant - Purchase Ledger

Finance Assistant - Purchase Ledger

Job Type

Support

Job Category

Finance

Employment Basis

Established (salaried)

Location

John Ruskin College - Croydon, East Surrey College - Redhill

Salary Range

£29,373

Closing Date

25/06/2026

Documents

• Finance Assistant - Purchase Ledger JD&PS - March 2026.pdf
  (PDF, 201.26kb)
• OSC Corporation Competency Framework 2019.pdf
  (PDF, 472.18kb)

Finance Assistant - Purchase Ledger

College location:East Surrey College (Redhill) and John Ruskin College (Selsdon)

Salary: £29,373

Hours: Full time (37 hours/week) 08:45-17:00 Mon – Fri

We are currently seeking to appoint an organised and enthusiastic Finance Assistantto join our professional and knowledgeableFinance department.

In this busy and fast-paced role you will assist with the smooth running of the accounts payable function and provide general administrative support to the Finance team, with specific responsibilities for ensuring the timely and effective operation of creating and maintaining supplier accounts. In addition to this, you will prepare and process invoices, credit notes and support with raising departmental purchase orders. You will proactively support with the AP workflow and the processing of weekly payment runs.

The successful candidate must have:

• Maths & English GCSE / Level 2 equivalent
• Intermediate Excel/ MS office
• Good knowledge of accounting procedures and double entry bookkeeping
• Knowledge of month end procedures and basic understanding of purpose of monthly management accounts
• Previous Purchase Ledger Experience is desirable

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of two excellent pension schemes, life assurance, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

*Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates.

Please refer to the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Competency Framework and apply using the button below.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campus’ are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.