Wellcome Sanger Institute Hiring for Financial Accountant Job at Hinxton, England Full Time

Essential Skills

• Accountancy qualification (eg ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Robust knowledge of accounting fundamentals and financial reporting acquired through qualification or experience
• Experience of accurate and timely production of financial accounts to Trial Balance, preferably in a charity environment
• Experience/appreciation of a strong financial controls environment and understanding of concepts, principles and practices of accounting
• Ability to organize and prioritize their own workload and multi-task in a busy environment
• Proactive approach to resolving issues and making improvements
• Judgement to consider when to escalate issues/concerns
• Self-motivated but also able to work as a key team player
• Trustworthy, discrete, confident and accurate in all matters
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to establish and maintain good customer relationships
• Good personal and communication skills, both verbally and in writing, with customers, users and other finance staff
• Open minded to flexible ways of working and able to adapt to new processes and procedures to improve and streamline workflows
• Good office system skills including excellent Excel skills, Word and Email
• Confidence in dealing with internal and external people, both on the phone and face to face
• Experience of extracting data from an accounting system into Excel
• Keen to take on new tasks with an ability to suggest and implement change and improvements in order to ensure best practice is followed

Other information

We have adopted a flexible hybrid working pattern to allow a balance of remote and office working,

About Us

The Wellcome Sanger Institute is a world leading genomics research centre. Our findings are used to improve health and to understand life on Earth.

Our benefits:

There’s an attractive benefits package on offer at the Wellcome Genome Campus. We appreciate the importance of achieving work-life balance and support this with a number of family and carer-friendly policies. Plus a flexible working policy for those who may wish to amend their working pattern or arrangement.
As well as the usual benefits you would expect, we go much further:

• 25 days annual leave (extra 1 day to a maximum of 30 days for every year you work)
• Auto-enrolment into a generous Group Defined Contribution Pension Scheme, with enhanced company contribution (for more information, see our Pensions page)
• Up to 2 days annual paid volunteering leave
• Up to 10 days paid Emergency Carers Leave per year
• Family friendly environment including options for flexible and part-time working, an on-site Workplace Nursery salary Sacrifice Schemes for pre-school children and Summer holiday club
• Life Assurance is accessible on day 1 for all
• Group Income Protection Scheme (if on a contract exceeding 12 months)
• Enhanced maternity, parental and adoption leave
• Access to substantial number of courses and training events onsite
• Private Healthcare Scheme
• Eyecare and Dental payment plans
• Concessions and discounts from our corporate perks site

Being part of the Wellcome Genome Campus you will be part of the beautiful working environment with an impressive range of benefits, services and facilities also including:

• Free bus service to and from Campus, covering various routes around Cambridge, Saffron Walden and surrounding villages
• A car-share initiative
• Free parking
• A number of on-site venues where you can meet, eat and socialise with colleagues
• A thriving Sports and Social Club which provides members with subsidised access to a gym, tennis courts, sports hall, fitness classes and a vibrant social calendar of events

In 2020 we were awarded an Athena SWAN Silver Award. We will consider all individuals without discrimination and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, where everyone can thrive.