Finance Assistant York, England
Walker Crips
Full Time
York, England
23687 - 53247 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Aim and purpose of the role
To assist with financial reporting and be responsible for the book keeping records of the registered companies, Walker Crips Wealth Management Ltd and Ebor Trustees Ltd (full responsibility for the purchase ledger and shared responsibility for the sales ledger).
Further details
Key Responsibilities
Audit systems/controls
- provide auditors with support for the accounting records and deal with queries.
- Keep procedures up to date with changes to optimize processes, changes to systems & to conform to changes in legislation.
Reporting
- Prepare quarterly & annual VAT returns (including partial exemption) for York companies.
- Assist in the preparation of budgets & forecasts and various financial reporting.
- Prepare prepayments & accruals and income work in progress schedules for the monthly management accounts.
- Report daily bank balances.
- Analyse expenditure for the purpose of group cost allocation & monitoring costs.
Reconciliations
- Daily bank reconciliations using bank feed rules, ensuring the purchase invoices are all correctly posted to the nominal ledger and weekly supplier payment runs.
- Assist with income reconciliations including back office income reconciliations and invoicing.
- Nominal reconciliations & journal postings.
- Balance Sheet reconciliations.
Education & Experience
- Work experience within a Financial Services Company is desirable.
- Finance experience including reconciliation is desirable.
- Accounting education min level 3 AAT or relevant degree desirable.
- Comfortable using computer systems – Microsoft Word, Excel & SAGE 200 & IO or other IFA back office system desirable
- Ad hoc project work – currently SAGE 200 purchase automation & financial reports.
Person Specification
- Self-starter with a dynamic “can do” attitude.
- To be able to work effectively during pressure periods while prioritising and multi-tasking.
- A high level of written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels in a clear, appropriate and timely fashion.
- Meticulous and attentive.
- Interpersonal skills – good inter personal skills in handling clients and colleague alike. To work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Passionate about quality, detail and accuracy in systems and comfortable learning new computer software systems.
- Analytical skills, commercially aware and a desire to optimise processes.
- Ambition to develop a career in finance within a highly regulated financial services company.
- A quick learner with good organisational skills and excellent timekeeping.
