£12.4 - £15 Per hour
Finance Assistant
Contract, Temporary
Job Description
- Chasing debt by e-mail and telephone
- Reconciling accounts in SWs to ensure that they accurately reflect debt information. This includes writing off smaller variances
- Meeting regularly with department heads to manage debt collection, and to improve processes around debt collection
- Running weekly debt reports
- Dealing with all queries related to payments, Investigation of customer receipts queries and unallocated payments
- Paying commission to agents
- Processing refunds via the bank and via our online payment system
- Escalating accounts to management where there is a risk of non-payment
- Sending payment receipts to agents and students
- Writing off debt on the account
- Inputting Supplier invoices into the exchequer system
- Generating payment files
- Dealing with any supplier queries
- Updating of any supplier accounts
- Setting up new suppliers
- Ensuring the finance inbox and incoming post are monitored and appropriate action taken
- Control accounts reconciliation.
- Inputting receipts.
- Prepare and input nominal ledger journals (receipts).
- Resolution of unallocated receipts.
- Operate petty cash systems
- Post the bank statements to the ledgers.
- Inform relevant departments of fees received directly into bank accounts.
- Liaise with bank regarding any queries.
- Bank transfers.
- Other regular month end journals.
- Reconcile specified balance sheet control accounts.
- Daily bank balance reporting
- Process staff credit cards
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Hold or work towards an accounting qualification such as ACCA, CIMA or AAT
- Expert user of Excel and accounting packages
- Competent user of Word
- Using accounting software systems
- Completing financial reconciliations
- Accounts payable experience – 2yrs +
- Ability to organize and manage workload and to work unsupervised
- Excellent attention to detail, but also able to see the big picture
- Ability to reach sound judgments after careful and systematic evaluation of the facts
- Ability to resolve problems effectively after exploring the options and considering the implications
- Ability to meet deadlines and targets
- Discretion in handling and filing confidential and sensitive information
- Ability to work as part of a small team
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills and ability to communicate at all levels
- Good team player
- Ability to meet customer needs with good, high quality services
- Ability to develop productive working relationships with staff groups, colleagues and all potential partners in service delivery
Reference no: 100171