Finance Assistant
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Finance Assistant for a 6 month contract on a rate between £15.35-£16.64/hour (PAYE). This role will be based on site, and the working hours are 17.5 hours per week.
Responsibilities:
– Ensure all sales invoices are correctly compiled and coded, that the appropriate details are passed for incorporation in the Financial Management System (Unit 4 Business World), that all other income due is collected and that the necessary liaison takes place with other Professional Services departments.
– Administer deposit account for incorporation in the monthly revenue reports, including processing monthly journals to debit deposit account and credit income accounts.
– Answer any query from Finance or Customer related to invoice, facilitating discussion with operational teams where required.
– Process files on Excel for internal charges, ensuring correct income codes are used.
– Run and check over export file from the booking system (Kinetics), correct if necessary, before sending to Financial Systems to upload to Financial Management System.
– Prepare cash sheet income and food and drink split from EPoS system (MCR) for each retail unit and upload for inclusion into Management accounts.
– Prepare and process journals from retail units accounts to catering suspense account for Hospitality Cards and vouchers.
– Prepare and process journals for Ross Priory prepayments bookings, and internal department transfers on Financial Management System.
– The first point of contact for finance regarding any income related queries and facilitate discussion with operational teams on the best solution to solve any issues, implement, or advise Finance what course of action needs done.
– Review and develop efficiencies in standard operating procedures were applicable.
Essential Skills:
– HNC level qualification or equivalent plus up to 4 years relevant work experience
– Microsoft Office – must have a proficient standard of Excel (spreadsheets, pivot tables and graphs), Word, and Outlook
– Experience of a financial transaction processing environment with successful customer engagement to build strong working relationships within a large complex organisation
– Significant use of a Financial Management system (ideally Unit 4 Business World Finance) experience within a Higher Education Finance environment
– Experience with compiling BIF files for upload to Financial Management system
– Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to cope with changing priorities, multiple tasks and delivering to tight deadlines
– Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the tenacity to sustain investigation of processes and system issues through to a successful resolution.
– Good understanding and experience of accounting principles, internal controls and common accounting procedures.
– Excellent numeracy, verbal and written communication skills and an attention to detail
– Ability to work effectively and closely within a team, and to work independently on own initiative when required, escalating relevant issues by exception.
– Very strong people skills, with an ability to deal with a wide range of people within a complex organisation
– Ability to deliver high quality results under pressure, while ensuring excellent attention to detail.
– Enjoys varied and challenging work, working outside own areas of comfort in support of wider team objectives if required
– Good spoken English with written communication skills – the post involves email, telephone and face to face contact
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Ensure all sales invoices are correctly compiled and coded, that the appropriate details are passed for incorporation in the Financial Management System (Unit 4 Business World), that all other income due is collected and that the necessary liaison takes place with other Professional Services departments.
– Administer deposit account for incorporation in the monthly revenue reports, including processing monthly journals to debit deposit account and credit income accounts.
– Answer any query from Finance or Customer related to invoice, facilitating discussion with operational teams where required.
– Process files on Excel for internal charges, ensuring correct income codes are used.
– Run and check over export file from the booking system (Kinetics), correct if necessary, before sending to Financial Systems to upload to Financial Management System.
– Prepare cash sheet income and food and drink split from EPoS system (MCR) for each retail unit and upload for inclusion into Management accounts.
– Prepare and process journals from retail units accounts to catering suspense account for Hospitality Cards and vouchers.
– Prepare and process journals for Ross Priory prepayments bookings, and internal department transfers on Financial Management System.
– The first point of contact for finance regarding any income related queries and facilitate discussion with operational teams on the best solution to solve any issues, implement, or advise Finance what course of action needs done.
– Review and develop efficiencies in standard operating procedures were applicable.
Essential Skills:
– HNC level qualification or equivalent plus up to 4 years relevant work experience
– Microsoft Office – must have a proficient standard of Excel (spreadsheets, pivot tables and graphs), Word, and Outlook
– Experience of a financial transaction processing environment with successful customer engagement to build strong working relationships within a large complex organisation
– Significant use of a Financial Management system (ideally Unit 4 Business World Finance) experience within a Higher Education Finance environment
– Experience with compiling BIF files for upload to Financial Management system
– Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to cope with changing priorities, multiple tasks and delivering to tight deadlines
– Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the tenacity to sustain investigation of processes and system issues through to a successful resolution.
– Good understanding and experience of accounting principles, internal controls and common accounting procedures.
– Excellent numeracy, verbal and written communication skills and an attention to detail
– Ability to work effectively and closely within a team, and to work independently on own initiative when required, escalating relevant issues by exception.
– Very strong people skills, with an ability to deal with a wide range of people within a complex organisation
– Ability to deliver high quality results under pressure, while ensuring excellent attention to detail.
– Enjoys varied and challenging work, working outside own areas of comfort in support of wider team objectives if required
– Good spoken English with written communication skills – the post involves email, telephone and face to face contact
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
