Finance Administrator - Chesterfield, United Kingdom - Post Office

Description

Salary:
Competitive **Grade: PO Admin

Contract Type: 18 month Fixed Term Contract****Location: Chesterfield


Reporting to:
Team Leader


Division:
Central Finance**
The Purpose of the Role
Complete, accurate and timely finance processes within Post Office systems (including data from Post Office sales channels, branches, clients and other parties)


Principal Accountabilities

• To complete accurate and timely: Settlement, Billing, Supplier Payments, Branch Accounting and MI reporting in line with contractual agreements
• Interpreting data, including Identification, investigation and resolution of anomalies in data and differences between data streams
• Understanding of, and clear/concise explanations of, account balances and processes
• Manage enquiries and resolution of issues with branches, clients, suppliers and customers providing advice and support as required
• Determining the necessary accounting entries to correct accounting errors
• Identifying and escalating risks and issues and proposing solutions
• Understand and operate Finance policies and financial controls in line with job role
• Providing support to other team members as required, including coaching to grow colleague skills
• Support Change activity into business as usual
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with any specific legislative, regulatory, or contractual requirements, including all POL policies, such as; the key policies and procedures on Confidentiality, Conflict of Interest, Business Continuity, Data Protectionand Equal Opportunities.

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

Experience Required

• Experience in a finance environment
• Experience in working to tight deadlines
• Experience of working in an environment with strong financial control requirements.

Skills Required:

• Attention to detail, with a desire for getting things right first time
• Numeric ability to understand and interpret figures.
• Can communicate effectively to all audiences including nonfinance experienced colleagues.
• Ability to identify, suggest and deliver improvements.
• Ability to adapt to changing business priorities by covering different roles across the team at short notice
• Questioning and challenging approach, with a 'Can do' attitude

About Post Office

The Post Office has thrived at the heart of high streets and local communities across the UK for over 370 years.

As one of the country's most trusted brands, we take our commitment to providing essential services to customers across the UK very seriously.

We're the UK's largest retail network, as well as the largest financial services provider in the UK, with over 11,600 branches nationwide - more than all of the UK's banks and building societies put together.

We know that the best way to provide a great service for customers is to evolve our business and adapt to their changing needs.

That's why we have a range of over 170 products and services, from personal financial services like banking, insurance, paymentsand travel money, to telecoms and, of course, mails.

And we're improving our online and in store experience for customers. We know that our customers never stop changing, so neither will we. We're here, in person, for the people who rely on us.


Our Ways of Working underpin everything we do, they are the "How" of our business strategy. They differentiate our business and aim to inspire great behaviours and align our colleagues around specific actions in order to be the organisationwe want to be, and achieve our business goals.

By living the Ways of Working each day, you will help make that vision a reality and enable our cultural transformation


In short
:
Working in partnership, as
one team, we
deliveramazing results

**The Post Office embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace and actively promote working without discrimination. We are also a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to interviewing disabled people who meet our minimum criteria forthe job.