Finance Assistant - Worcester, United Kingdom - Open GI Ltd.

Open GI Ltd.

Verified Company

Worcester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Open GI is a leading software development company and a trusted partner to the general insurance industry.

Based across the UK and Europe, our support and development services make us a truly diverse organization that offers a range of IT solutions to insurance brokers, insurers, and managing general agents.

It is our mission to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of Choice to the UK General Insurance market.

Our people are placed at the heart of this and diversity, equality and inclusion are central to everything we do.

We know the key to achieving success is to enable a positive, inclusive, and collaborative working culture, and, as part of our commitment, we have signed up for a number of pledges and programmes designed to support and nurture our people.

No matter where you sit or which team you are a part of, we want you to know that you contribute in helping us to shape where the company will be in the future.

We would love for each employee to be able to talk with pride about our company and, most importantly, consider Open GI to be an inclusive, fun and fulfilling place to work.

Position:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Finance team on a 9 months Fixed-Term Contract, where you will provide support on a wide range of financial and administrative tasks including maintaining the cash management for Open International group companies.

Your key responsibilities

Maintaining cash books for Open International group companies.
Posting and accurately allocating cash receipts onto ledgers.
Preparation of payment requests on Lloyds Link business banking.
Review of various information sources to collate and calculate data to be used in Invoicing.
Raising the transactional commission sales orders for the Invoicing team.
Administering the electronic data interchange (EDI) activities.
Completion of month end Bank and Balance Sheet reconciliations with investigation of variances.
Producing and maintaining the KPI reporting of the team.
Supporting the finance and management accounts team with month end closing processes ensuring accuracy of our results to trail balance level.
Completion of the monthly sales commissions for payroll.
Administer the groups fixed asset ledger and Intercompany tasks.
Queries are logged, liaising with internal and external parties to ensure swift resolution.
Compile, analyse and interpret complex data from a range of sources producing clear and informative data.
Highlighting areas of improvement and initiating ideas to improve the overall standard and effectiveness of the transactional function.
Supporting team objectives and deadlines as required to ensure we meet our obligations to Customers and internal stakeholders.
Being the forefront in building a procurement process in the team, whereby collaborating with business heads on budgeted costs.
Tracking and monitoring of costs, highlighting contractual renewals and challenging budget holders on their costs driving down spend.
Directly involved in assisting with the statutory audit process including sample collation.
Collaborate with other team members to assist with rotation of shared responsibility of the purchase ledger, purchasing admin, coding, and OGI Commercial functions.

Requirements:

What you'll need to succeed

Experience

Finance/administrative experience using a CRM/ERP system in a dynamic, fast paced environment.
Knowledge of how the accounts receivable, treasury, accounts payable and credit control functions operate within a finance department.
Experience of SAP accounting system desirable but not essential.

Skills

Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
Exceptional time management skills, with prioritising workloads essential.
Use of internal systems to analyse and understand accounts, invoicing, and system details.
Product and service knowledge.
Competent use of Microsoft Office including proficient use of Microsoft Excel.
High degree of numeracy.

Other information:

Mission and Values

Our mission is to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of choice for the UK General Insurance Market.

Our values are central to this vision, as they represent how we collaborate how we work together in synergy and continually deliver for our customers:

Accountability: We take personal pride in finding solutions and achieving results
Innovation: We lead the market by being proactive, productled and forward thinking
Teamwork: We work collaboratively, recognising and celebrating success
Trust: We build trust on integrity, transparency and respect

We are looking for an individual who embraces our values in their actions, decisions, communications and processes to inspire positivity and, ultimately, exceptional performance.

Benefits package