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Senior Finance Assistant

Employer
Connectment
Location
Durham, County Durham, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Sep 30, 2022

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Job Role
Accounts Assistant
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
The Opportunity:

As Senior Finance Assistant, you will primarily support day-to-day transactions and provide financial administration support with various tasks across the organisation.

Some of the key responsibilities for this successful individual would be but not limited to:

* The processing of financial transactions, ensuring that supplier invoices, company and colleague expenses are processed, recorded, paid and controlled accurately and timely, as well as performing bank reconciliation’s and producing daily cash flow management information.

* Record all supplier invoices onto Sun Systems through Q&A Excel in line with daily and month end deadlines

* Ensure all invoices and expenses are coded correctly and authorised

* Effectively manage invoices that are awaiting approval, escalating any issues

* Manage supplier queries, ensuring queries are resolved and responded to effectively

* Maintain and create supplier management records accurately

* Perform supplier statement reconciliations, ensuring that any discrepancies are rectified

* Prepare supplier payments in line with payment policies and procedures

* Perform daily bank account reconciliations, and ensure that all reconciling items are cleared and reflected in the general ledger accurately

* Produce daily cash flow management information

* Prepare and process month end accruals and prepayments

* Prepare and process allocated premise allocation, reviewing accruals and prepayments

* Perform other allocated balance sheet reconciliation’s in line with month end and year end deadlines

* Manage and produce monthly aged creditor report, including detail of findings

* Run and analyse the accounts receivable report and ensure all income is allocated

* Prepare any banking within the daily receipts procedure deadline

* Chase outstanding income in line with the organisation’s payment terms

* Coach, develop and support the Finance Assistant’s within the team

* Support the Financial Services manager to meet team KPI’s, and organisational goals

* To support the production of the annual audit file for external auditors and deal with queries raised by the external auditors

The Candidate:

The successful Senior Finance Assistant will be/have:

* Experience and knowledge of working in a Finance department

* Good excel skills, with experience of maintaining spreadsheets

* Great working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Excel, Outlook and Word

* Excellent numeracy skills, attention to detail and time management skills

* Good coordination, organisational skills and sound decision-making

* Good verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people and develop effective working relationships

* Flexibility to support the needs of the team and contribute to achieving KPIs

* Comfortable working autonomously and maintain ongoing areas of responsibility

* Be proactive, a team player and flexible, and willing to work in a changing environment.

* Conscientious and responsible.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
Annual leave purchase scheme
Enhanced occupational sick pay %Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
Death in service benefit
Free Will writing
Eyecare vouchers
Blue light card discount
Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
Work-life balance - flexible working and family-friendly policies
Well-being offers for the workforce
Employee Assist Programme and support networks

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