account representative Manchester, England
Job description
Due to growth, we have a great new opportunity for an Accounts Assistant to join our Finance team. Within this role you will be responsible for completing bank and reconciliation activities for the Ireland platform.
This role is ideal for someone who excels and enjoys working in a challenging and fast paced environment.
The role will be based at our Manchester City Centre office combined with home working.
What will you be doing?
- Completing daily cash reconciliations between the bank and customer payment transactions recorded on the operational platform
- Interrogating transactional data to identify any actions required with regards to unreconciled transactions
- Working closely with the Ireland Operations team to resolve any unreconciled items in a timely manner
- Processing bank payments in line with internal policies
- Preparing daily client reporting of reconciliations and bank transactions, and supporting the delivery against other client SLAs
- Monitoring and reporting on key performance indicators
- Dealing with complex queries from external clients, and internal stakeholders, and maintaining good relationships with these parties
- Maintaining the bank ledger and recording transactions accurately in D365
- Preparing bank reconciliations for the Ireland platform
- Ensuring that process documents are accurately maintained and kept up to date
- Providing support to the wider team in respect of ad-hoc reporting and analysis, when required
Is this you?
Required skills and experience
- Minimum 12 months experience in completing high transactional volume bank reconciliations and processing payments
- Confident Excel skills to include pivot tables and v lookups
- Educated to GCSE level including Math and English grade A-C or equivalent
- Ability to turn around tasks efficiently and accurately
- Confident to work in a fast-paced commercial environment
- Experience in working to tight deadlines
- Strong team player
Advantageous, though not essential
- Experience in Blackline transaction matching beneficial but not essential
- Experience in Microsoft D365 beneficial but not essential
WELCOME TO ARROW GLOBAL
Founded in 2005, we own 19 best-in-class asset management and servicing platforms which allow s us to enhance operational efficiencies and maximise the value of underlying assets which in turn allows us to have a disciplined investment approach, underwriting insight and proprietary deal flow. This vertically integrated advantage allows us to create sustainable value throughout market cycles across a range of alternative asset classes including Real Estate, Direct Lending and Opportunistic Credit.
Our strong track record has seen us invest more than €8 billion over the last 17 years across a broad range of investment opportunities, predominantly real estate asset backed, and we manage c.€80 billion of third-party AUM using multiple key European regulatory licences.
We operate across five European geographies with headquarters in London, and a further 12 offices including Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Porto, Amersfoort, Luxembourg, Dublin, Manchester, and Leeds.
Visit www.arrowglobal.net to learn more.
WHY JOIN US?
Our Culture and Way of Working
We’re entrepreneurial, fast-paced and decisive, working together safely and supportively. We trust our colleagues to make the right decisions and are brave enough to acknowledge mistakes and to learn from them. Celebrating success, we reward those who help us to achieve exceptional long-term results.
We’re inclusive and encourage our colleagues to be themselves. Our culture supports the difference that makes each of us unique. We’re open and eager to embrace new ways of working and have a diverse community, enriched by our local identities that works collaboratively to build a unified and dynamic organisation.
We believe that a supported flexible working approach helps us to retain valued colleagues, enhance wellbeing, increase motivation and encourage a healthy work/life balance. If you’re interviewed, ask about the flexibility involved in this role.
Our Values
Our stakeholders expect us to act in an ethical and responsible way and this is at the heart of how we conduct our business. Our Group-wide values support this philosophy and we seek out and reward behaviours that will make us more sustainable, responsible and successful. We succeed together; we do the right thing; we’re trusted and valued and we’re brave and creative. You’ll hear more about these if you join us.
Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Commitment
We’re committed to investing responsibly and supporting our local communities and charitable organisations in all our locations. Every colleague is encouraged to take a paid day each calendar year to volunteer for our nominated charities. We’re proud of the contribution they make
Please note – we are an equal opportunities employer and FCA regulated company - We will conduct credit, fraud, criminal record and 5-year reference checks as part of our pre-employment screening. (Strictly No Recruitment Agencies Please).
