Part-time Finance Assistant

Paying between £13.50 - £14.50 per hour + 27 hour working week + predominantly home-based This Manchester-based Housing Association is looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to join them on a temporary basis for approximately 3 months. The role is predominantly home-working with one day a week based in the office after the initial training period. The role is for 27 hours per week, this will be over five days ideally, although four would be considered for the right candidate.

THE ROLE

The role is to manage the day-to-day banking transactions across all bank accounts for the Group, ensuring efficient and accurate allocation to the accounting software. Full administration of corporate credit and debit cards needs to be actioned and play a key role in a rota for completing bank payments for sundry supplier payments and payroll.  

Key responsibilities:

• To download daily bank statements for the main bank account from the banking portal into Excel and upload to the accounting software
• Preparing and submitting cashbook journals to post the bank transactions to the appropriate general ledger codes
• Use the bank reconciliation module to ‘match off’ the bank statement and cashbook transactions to complete the ‘main bank’ reconciliation
• For other Group bank accounts, excluding the rent account, to ensure that monthly balance sheet reconciliations are completed in the Excel based template  
• To take a copy of the daily bank statements downloaded from the banking portal, adding them to the rolling Excel-based workbook
• Complete the tracking data, including general ledger codes and journal references, and categorise each transaction according to the cashflow categories
• To manage the internal process for the corporate credit cards and download card statements from the online portal and distribute to individual cardholders
• Communicate regularly with cardholders to support and resolve queries and ensure key submission and approval deadlines are adhered to
• Access the internal credit card application to collate submission data and ensure the data reconciles with individual statements and sufficient receipts are provided to verify expenditure
• Prepare and submit journals on Open Accounts to allocate credit card transactions to the appropriate general ledger code
• Reconcile statements to transaction data input by cardholders in Excel
• Prepare and submit journals on Open Accounts to allocate debit card transactions to the appropriate general ledger code
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for all the Group’s bank accounts and credit/debit cards
• Investigate and escalate unreconciled items on any of the balance sheet accounts to the Finance Manager

THE CANDIDATE

You will have extensive experience working within finance, specifically with bank reconciliations and credit cards. You will ideally have experience working within housing or property and Open accounts experience would be advantageous but is by no means essential. Excellent IT skills are essential, including advanced use of Excel - you will be able to commit to 27 hours per week, ideally over a five day period. You will be available immediately and will be available for a Teams interview w/c 02/12.