Finance Assistant

Grafton Banks Finance are working with a rapidly growing services organisation with offices in Guildford, Surrey to recruit a Finance Assistant on a full-time permanent basis. Reporting into the Accounting Operations Manager and working within a large friendly team you will be responsible for the documentation and reconciliation's of the cutting-edge cloud platform accounting and administration.

Duties and Responsibilities will include:

• Ensure timely delivery of data to RA’s partner for tracking and reporting.
• Reconcile between different technology platforms to ensure all relevant data is being captured and accurate.
• Ability to work on own initiative and investigate discrepancies within large data sets.
• Assist in delivery of the funding process for all clients i.e. the process for requesting money from the client to make approved client disbursements.
• Assist with the setup of new clients across all technology platforms ensuring all personnel have been provided with the relevant access.
• Ensure clients are correctly invoiced for all costs paid on their behalf, ensuring the applicable fees have been applied and all relevant fields updated in the system.
• Assist in the client’s data acquisition process and resolve data integrity issues.
• Perform extensive data validation/quality assurance analysis within large datasets.
• Ensure Implementation Project Management is updated on actions and deliverables during any implementation.
• Assist in pre-go-live user acceptance testing (UAT) and respond quickly to issues that arise.
• Ensure all regulatory requirements are met.
• Establish a high level of credibility and manage strong internal and external working relationships.
• Approving and processing of expenses in-line with policy guidelines.
• Manage rent, deposit, tuition and ad-hoc payments, including ongoing monthly rental payments for assignees, predominantly for key complex clients, which may require external/client interaction.
• Reconcile costs to ensure accurate capturing of spend data for reporting and billing purposes.
• Prepare and deliver client reporting including Ad hoc at agreed intervals.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Diary management and prioritisation of daily workload
• Demonstrates a sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Works closely with the Operations Lead to seek and implement opportunities to streamline processes and enhance efficiency.

The successful candidate will have experience of working in a finance role and knowledge of Accounting and Finance and or studying towards AAT or equivalent. Solid accurate administration skills, a basic knowledge of finance in relation to reconciliation, excellent communication skills for Customer Service related requirements, confident interpersonal skills, experience with multi -currency, ability to manage heavy work loads and working a fast paced working environment. Be a strong team player but also work sole charge. IT skills are essential to be able to work on state of the art Cloud platform systems and Excel alongside Microsoft packages.

For your experience you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package. Hybrid working is on offer after training programme.