Description
Assistant Financial Accountant/12 Month Contract/Monmouthshire/£21 Per Hour Ltd
My client is a well respected and highly successful market leader who is currently experiencing a continued period of growth and success. Due to an ever increasing workload, they are currently looking to recruit an Assistant Financial Accountant to be based out of their impressive operations in Monmouthshire. The role is for an initial 12 months and is paying £21 per hour Ltd.
Please find the job description below:
Job Description
The Assistant Financial Accountant (AFA) will be required to assist with the delivery of all the existing financial accounting activities undertaken for the customer including balance sheet reconciliations, journals and VAT returns. The AFA may be required to assist with other R2R activities or undertake various projects as the need arises. Tasks undertaken will vary from time to time to ensure the whole team experiences a broader range of activities and customers and to ensure that there is adequate cross-training within the team. This role includes supporting activities undertaken under the Finance Services Transformation Programme and this will include travelling and the requirement to work from remote locations for a period of at least two months.
Role Description
The AFA may be responsible for assisting with the delivery of the following on a day-to-day basis:
- Preparation of various internal and external reports
- Preparation of balance sheet reconciliations
- Preparation and processing of journals
- Preparation of intercompany agreements
- Processing of payroll files from a bureau and related activities
- The creation of vendor payment templates
- Preparation of various tax returns/computations including corporation tax and VAT
- Various compliance activities including completion of a monthly FCF COSA
- Ad hoc projects, as required
Tasks undertaken will vary from time to time to ensure the whole team experiences a broader range of activities and that there is adequate cross-training within the team.
Qualifications & Experience
The ideal candidate will have a management, accounting or finance degree and ideally previous experience of working in a customer service excellence environment.
They will be expected to demonstrate the following:
* Experience of working in a customer service excellence environment.
* Excellent IT Skills including, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
* Flexibility when faced with changing customer requirements.
* An ability (and attitude) to learn and develop new skills.
Responsibilities
As an Accounts Receivable Clerk your main responsibilities will involve:
- Milestone, Deliverable & Service Billing in multi currencies
- Advance claims
- Sales trading
- Electronic EDI Billing
- Raising of Credit notes in line with Finance Policies and Delegation of Authority
- Daily Cash Allocation
- Daily Credit Control
- Dispute Management and Escalation
- Month end aged debt analysis reconciled to the balance sheet
- Issue of monthly statements to customers
- Monthly debt reviews with BU Finance, Commercial and Project Team
- Bad debt provisions
- Debtor Day analysis
- Inter-company agreements
- Undertaking Credit checks
- Raising of new customer accounts
- Order loading
- Balance sheet reconciliations ie Advance payments
- Monitor and report on relevant KPI's
- Ad-hoc tasks, as required
Please register interest by submitting an up to date CV without delay.Advantage Resourcing is a service driven recruitment consultancy.