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 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 costing and pricing for research infrastructure services, coordinating with Core Labs and Platform teams, preparing accurate project-based quotations, issuing and processing customer and supplier invoices, monitoring invoice status, ensuring correct financial coding and allocation of costs, and supporting audits and process improvements.