Location:
Gloucester

Salary:
Commensurate with experience plus a good range of benefits

Duration: Fixed-term (6 months)

Hours: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday

Role purpose

To deliver an accurate, flexible and timely payments service to the group for the settlement of payments to businesses and employees.

Key accountabilities

• Processing incoming and outgoing payments using a number of systems within agreed SLAs

• Processing invoices against approved purchase / service orders

• Setting up electronic payments into the banking payments platform to include payments to overseas banks and urgent faster payments

• Coding consolidated invoices and importing these into the accounting system

• Data entry and input onto various systems and Excel

• Checking employee expense claims, importing card transactions, exporting payments to the accounting system, arranging cash advances and providing general guidance and assistance to all users

• Checking and reconciling supplier statements and resolving any queries

• Processing refunds and cancellations

• Managing balances in operational bank accounts and settlement of inter-company balances

• Daily bank reconciliations

• Weekly bordereaus for third parties

• Preparation of bank, creditor and other monthly reconciliations

• Managing all documentation to include batching payment documents for scanning and secure filing

• Executing additional tasks in order to meet departmental needs or changes

Knowledge skills and experience

• Previous experience working within a similar finance role or knowledge and understanding of finance through relevant study - may suit a graduate looking to gain experience of working in Finance

• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple streams of work within defined timelines

• Proactive in raising issues and taking ownership to seek resolution

• Strong attention to detail

• Good communicator and able to work as part of a team and independently

• Good knowledge of Excel and Microsoft Outlook

• Self-motivated and driven

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to us.

Early applications are encouraged.