Finance Assistant - Staverton, United Kingdom - Premier Group Recruitment

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Location:

Staverton Bridge
Finance Assistant:


Role:
Mechanical


  • Salary: £30,000
Job Reference: 201092


JOB- Finance Assistant

LOCATION - Bristol

TERM- Permanent

SALARY- £28, ,000 per annum, dependent on experience
My client offers engineering solutions all over the UK. They are looking for a Finance Assistant for their Bristol office on a permanent basis. The purpose of the role is to be responsible for the day-to-day tasks in the finance department, help in maintaining financial records and first point of contact for supplier/customer invoice queries/support


The Finance Assistant will ideally have the following attributes:

An accountancy qualification is beneficial eg. AAT, ACCA, or CIMA
Excellent attention to detail, with an ability to spot errors
Excellent mathematical skills
Customer service skills
Understanding of date privacy standards
Good knowledge of accounting and bookkeeping procedures
Microsoft Excel Skills


The Finance Assistant role will involved:

Liaising with Suppliers to chase missing invoices and processing a weekly supplier payment run
Working closely with Operations and Contracts Managers to ensure their projected dates for invoicing (and thus Revenue forecasts) are up to date and correct

Working closely with Procurement Managers to ensure their projected dates for goods arriving (expenditure forecasts) are up to date and correct.

Raising sales invoices as goods are shipped and reconciling individual job costings to the overall gross margin at the same time.

Chasing employees to make sure they get their expenses onto the online system on time then creating invoices from this information and posting these to the accounts
Reconciling the bank to the ERP system every day and updating the cashflow forecasts that rely on this information.

Ensuring that the accounting side of the ERP system is always clean and up to date as this drives the live data dashboards and ultimately the management accounts.

Working with the live data dashboards to ensure the business is seeing correct accounting information always.
Approving Supplier and Customers details on the ERP system and generally keeping the accounts information clean

Supporting the Group Finance Manager and Finance Director in producing the monthly management accounts and any other analysis if required.

Approve/Assist in the setup of New Customer Accounts on the system accounts receivable ledger.
Weekly reconciliation on suppliers' statements received to suppliers' account.
Ensure amounts for Direct Debits and Standing Orders have been deducted correctly and post to relevant ledger.
Cash flow Forecast Reporting - Ensuring expected payment dates are correct in both the Sales and Purchase Ledger to enable accurate daily reporting to the business

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