Description
This leading E-commerce business has two exciting opportunities for someone keen to gain experience within the Back Office finance function of a FTSE 100 business. In this role you will be responsible for co-ordinating all cheque payments made by the company. The role facilitates cheque payments through a number of bank accounts across different European countries and reports directly to the Banking Manager in the Financial Transactions team.
Your specific accountabilities will include;
- Overseeing and coordinating the production of regular cheque batches through the cash management bank for items such as disruption compensation
- Ensuring that all cheque batches are approved by the authorisers and submitted before the relevant cut off times
- Reconcile the unpresented cheques and manage the posting of cheques during the month end process
- Production of a cheque payment log
- Liaising with the legal team about any issues with cheques
- Being the main point of contact between the bank and the business with regards to cheques
- Dealing with any cheque queries from customer services both timely and efficiently
- Assist in the calculation of the cheque fees and liaise with the banks on discrepancies.
- Understanding of the cheque process from end to end
- Adhere to SLAs agreed within the business
- Drive process improvement
- Be able to cover members of the Back Office function
- Ad-hoc - any other requests which come into the function
In order to be considered for this role you will need to have some previous experience working within a finance function (ideally Back Office) coupled with excellent communication skills and attention to detail. Experience with the MS Office suite including excellent Excel ability is a must.
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