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Salary: £23,945 progressing to £26,605

Hours: Monday to Thursday 09.00 to 17.00hrs Friday 09.00 to 16.30hrs

We have an excellent opportunity within our Finance Department for a Finance Assistant. If you have strong organisational skills along with great interpersonal skills, then this could be the role for you.

As a Finance Assistant in our Central Services in Fareham, your role will involve providing assistance within the finance department in areas of daily administration and other clerical duties.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain the purchase ledger, recording invoices onto the OPERA register as they are received and distributing them to services as appropriate for authorisation, dealing with queries within the purchase ledger.
• Monitor the finance email inbox and deal with any arising issues.
• Prepare the weekly payment runs, including the miscellaneous BACS run and cheques as required, recording and posting all payments in the appropriate places.
• Reconciling all PL statements.
• Maintain the various utility contracts spreadsheets, including gas, electric and phones. Collate, code and post to the nominal ledger.
• Prepare and maintain accruals and prepayments, and at month end ensure correctly coded and posted to the nominal ledger.
• Liaise with external agencies on behalf of staff and clients as directed by the Finance team leader.
• Maintain finance records, as required and ensure all manual, computerised records and information are stored, as appropriate
• Attend staff meetings and support and appraisal sessions as required.
• Attend appropriate training to meet needs identified by line manager.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties, as requested by a senior manager.
• At all times, work within the organisation's Equal opportunities and Anti - discriminatory policies.

Attributes & Values

• Must have 2 years experience plus of Purchase Ledger procedures.
• Able to cope with large volumes of invoices and process in a timely manner.
• The role is very busy and very challenging.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft package - including Word, Excel and Outlook
• Knowledge of Sharepoint an advantage.
• Knowledge of Pegasus Opera accounts package.
• Good Team player but able to work on own initiative.

We reserve the right to close our adverts early if a successful candidate is found, so please submit your application as soon as possible.