Vacancy ID: 23169
📍 Headington, Oxford | 🕒 Full-Time | 📅 12-Week Temporary Assignment | 🏢 On-Site
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Temporary Purchasing Assistant to join a busy Oxford University department based in Headington. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with procurement or finance administration experience looking to work within a prestigious academic environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review and validate purchase requisitions in Oracle R12, ensuring accuracy, compliance, correct documentation, and VAT treatment.
- Process new supplier setups and amendment requests, ensuring all documentation is complete and accurate.
- Maintain purchasing records, process order acknowledgements, and follow up on purchase orders to ensure timely delivery and receipting.
- Respond to internal and external enquiries, providing guidance on purchasing and financial procedures.
- Support the University’s purchase-to-pay processes and undertake related administrative tasks.
About You:
- Previous experience within a finance, procurement, or purchasing environment.
- Knowledge of purchase-to-pay processes, purchase order administration, and supplier management.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent organisational skills.
- Confident communicator with a customer-focused approach.
- Experience using Oracle R12 would be highly advantageous.
Please be aware that all candidates need to be able to start work immediately and must be able to work on site if required to do so.
Further information can about the Temporary Staffing Service can be found on our website https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/temporary-staffing-service