Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant | Hybrid | Permanent | up to £28,500

As designated by the Revenue and Payment Manager, to support the work undertaken by the Accounts Payable team and others around the Finance Department, you will undertake a range of tasks including (but not exclusive to):

• Invoice and Expense processing, changes to suppliers, maintenance of the Payables Ledger, Supplier statement reconciliations and foreign currencies reconciliations.

• Processing of Invoices from Suppliers including the timely recording of both PO and non-PO invoices in SAP and ensuring appropriate approval of costs as per the authority matrix.
• Contacting suppliers and stakeholders within the business to help resolve invoice queries.
• Review and approval of expense submissions via the Concur platform, and challenging claims in line with the Expense Policy.
• Produce supplier statement reconciliations, to help ensure the accuracy of the accounts payables ledger, and for the review of the AP Team Leader and Finance Manager.
• Calling suppliers to validate changes to supplier details, and updating supplier details within SAP as change notifications are received and verified.
• Be responsible for the issuing of foreign currencies to those within the business who travel overseas, ordering of new currency as required, and the reconciliation of actual currency held to the foreign currency records.
• Support the introduction of automated invoice processing software, helping to ensure a smooth development and embedding of the tool into the business.
• Support the P2P project, helping to make process improvements within departments throughout the business from the initial procurement to the final payment stage.

• An accounting qualification such as AAT, happy to support study if started or want to start; will also look at people with experience and no qualifications.
• 2 years’ experience of working within a Finance.
• Good Excel skills and the ability to manipulate data.

For further information, please contact Rhian Mountjoy.