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A Finance Assistant to join our team
Finance Assistant
As Finance Assistant, you’ll provide essential support across our finance operations, ensuring accurate processing of transactions, maintaining clear records, and helping the team deliver efficient, compliant processes. Working closely with colleagues across Catalyst, you’ll play a key role in keeping our finances running smoothly, enabling us to focus on building and supporting Northern Ireland’s innovation community.
Key Information
- Full-time, fixed term contract ending January 2027 (Part-time options may be considered)
- Competitive salary up to £30,000 depending on qualifications/experience
- Based at the Innovation Centre, Queen’s Road, Belfast (hybrid working arrangement available)
- Reporting to the Management Accountant
- Closing date: 15th March 2026
Benefits of working at Catalyst
Competitive Benefits Package
Private medical insurance for you and your dependents
Generous pension contribution
Generous life assurance policy
Enhanced parental leave packages
Free open access to company organised events
Free parking onsite
Responsibilities
- Processing and paying supplier invoices
- To raise purchase orders and ensure company procurement rules are adhered to
- To process staff expenses on a weekly basis
- Appropriate electronic filing of all documentation
- Processing of all customer invoicing
- Daily posting of bank receipts
- Reconciliation of all bank account
- To respond to queries from customers and suppliers in a timely manner
- To provide general administrative and financial support as required
- To work as a team to improve finance processes and find efficiencies
- Undertaking any other reasonable duties which fall within the remit of the role
Essential Criteria
- At least three year’s work experience in a similar role
- Experience working with Sage 50
- Strong numeracy and literacy skills
- Effective IT skills including experience working with Office 365 elements such as MS Word, MS Teams, SharePoint etc
- Effective MS Excel skills including creating basic formulas
- Ability to communicate clearly, confidently and in a professional manner
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team
- Willingness to adapt and to learn new skills
Other Requirements
- Proof of right to work in the UK
Criteria may be enhanced to aid shortlisting. Exceptional candidates who do not meet the criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience
More info about Catalyst
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About Catalyst
We are a non-profit organisation that supports science and technology innovation in Northern Ireland with buildings and hubs in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry where companies can use our flexible workspaces to operate from. We use the profits generated from our property portfolio to deliver entrepreneurial support programmes, facilitate funding, inform policy and accelerate technology-based research and development, by linking with academia and government.
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Diversity and Inclusion at Catalyst
Diversity and inclusion aren’t boxes to tick on a CSR list. At Catalyst, they are part of our DNA, lived, breathed, seen, and heard across our community, projects, and co-working spaces.
We not only want to foster and empower a culture of innovation, but also an environment where people can be their true, authentic self and thrive, and we are proud to be recognised by the Diversity Charter for achieving silver status, with ambitions to progress to Gold.
As an equal opportunity employer, we recruit based solely on the individual’s ability to perform the role, and that’s allowed us to create an inclusive workplace which celebrates the diversity of our teams and community.
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Working at Catalyst
A certified Great Place to Work® and recognised as one of the top 100 Workplaces in the UK for 2024, receiving awards for Best Place to Work, Best Workplace for Development, Best Workplace for Employee Wellbeing, and Best Place to Work for Women, Catalyst is one of Northern Ireland’s most exciting employers.
With a strong vision of opportunity for all from world-leading innovation, this is a workplace brimming with ambition to create social, cultural, and economic advantage. We are a force for good, bold in our approach with integrity at our core and passion in everything we do.
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Our Values
INTEGRITY
We approach everything with a straightforward, open and honest attitude. Every new challenge requires a brave, smart, and flexible way of thinking and we put integrity at the heart of every decision. Our strong moral code intuitively understands what doing the right thing means in every situation.
PASSION
We love what we do. We are committed to our members and partners, ready to go above and beyond for the future we are building together. This is the ‘Catalyst Way’. We sharpen our senses, take calculated risks together and work hard for a brighter future.
BE BOLD
Be ambitious and dare to be different. We are the catalyst that connects entrepreneurs and businesses to an eco-system and community that transforms ideas and innovation into real-world reality with global impact.
Have a question?
Contact Joe at joe.finnegan@wearecatalyst.org
Joe Finnegan
HR Officer
