Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant to work in the sales and Income Ledger team on a temporary basis for 8 weeks minimum

You will be operating the cashbooks systems in a sensitive manner so that customers' needs are met.

Main Duties:

- Maintain and process Sales Ledger on Sage 200
- Provide monthly Sales Ledger/nominal reconciliations
- To process daily and monthly sales invoices
- Process invoices for various international customers, and in numerous currencies
- Ensuring correct VAT is applied to invoices
- Monthly reconciliation of cash, PDQ, and voucher control accounts to confirm validity and balancing
- Review aged debtor reports
- Monitoring the bank accounts
- To provide monthly Bank reconciliations of numerous bank accounts, which include various currency accounts
- Provide occasional office cover and to act as relief for other Finance staff during vacation periods
- To ensure the security of the cash and of the Finance Office is always maintained

You will have the following experience:
- Knowledge of effective financial procedures
- Knowledge of sales ledger and ledger processes
- Analytical experience of preparing reconciliations
- Ability to communicate effectively - written and verbal
- Experience of working both within a team and across an organisation
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to deliver excellent customer service
- Commitment to equal opportunity
- PC literate - Microsoft Office and experience using a finance system
- Experience of Sage 200
- Experience of cash handling

The role is 36.5 hours a week and 4 days a week in the office with 1 day from home