Finance Assistant

Overview

As the Finance assistant, you will play an integral role in keeping the base safe, supporting accurate financial reporting and being a key contact with service managers to support their budget holder responsibilities. Reporting to the Assistant Finance Manager, this is a great opportunity for a dynamic and self-motivated individual to develop business partnering and commercial finance experience, work closely with our finance team and wider business, and drive overall success.

• Analyse, interpret and investigate complex financial data, queries and discrepancies.
• Work within policies and procedures, plan and prioritise workload to ensure weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual financial timetables are met.
• Develop, create and manipulate reports and present accurate, timely financial data using computer databases and spreadsheets.
• Interrogate and produce information and reports from a wide range of computerised systems using a high level of IT skills, including Excel, the general ledger, EPM and ESR.
• Develop a detailed understanding of the finance system and other associated systems to ensure the ability to produce a variety of information appropriate to the needs of the organisation.
• Ensure accurate coding of all income and expenditure within the financial ledger to maintain the integrity of the financial reports.
• Undertake monthly control reconciliations.
• Raise invoices as requested by budget holders.
• Assist in the completion of ad hoc projects as required.
• Develop the role on an ongoing basis with manager and service and adapt the job according to management and organisational changes.