Description
Accounts Assistant - Accounts Receivable/Invoicing - Banking Client
St Pauls, London
6 months
My client is a leading Investment Banking client in London, and we are currently recruiting on their behalf for an Accounts Assistant. This role will be working as part of the EMEA Leasing Operations team which consists of 13 Leasing professionals who support the Leasing business in EMEA.
The EMEA Leasing business has grown substantially over the last 5 years. The team processes around 700 new deals, around 10,000 billing events and 35,000 cash items a year.
The team responsibilities commence once a Leasing type deal (Lease or loan) deal is approved by Credit.
The team has responsibility for:
- Ensuring the deal is correctly documented and is in line with business approvals.
- Approving the deal for funding
- Entering the deal on the ALFA Lease Management system
- Issuing invoices for the deal.
- Responding to customer queries
- Monitoring Leasing bank accounts daily
- Posting cash received and investigating issues
- Monitoring internal loan positions and liaising with Treasury for new and existing borrowings
- Creating daily journal entries to the Corporate GL
- Terminating/amending transactions.
- Reconciling ALFA to the Corporate GL
- Producing various reports
Role Responsibilities
- Creating daily invoices
- Posting cash to the ALFA system
- Creating monthly General Ledger reconciliations
- Other customer service/administrative tasks as required
- Various process enhancements and system projects.
- Other tasks as required
Requirements
- Experience of invoicing/accounts receivables activities
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent Excel skills - data manipulation (pivot tables, vlookups, basic macros).
- Customer service, Problem solving/Risk mitigation
- Clear, articulate oral and written communication skills
- Results oriented, is able to accomplish objectives in a specified timeframe.