VENN GROUP
Finance Assistant
Length of contract: 7 months
Working days: 3 days per week – part time
Location: London (role is office based)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Clearance Required: Basic DBS/BPSS
A Central Government department is seeking a Finance Assistant to help ensure all transactions are fully supported in the Finance team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure that all transactional processing requirements are met to a high standard
- Maintain electronic and paper filing systems agreed within the team to ensure that there is an appropriate and comprehensive support for all transactions posted to the ledgers
- Provide support to the Finance Team in the delivery of finance functions
- Review and reconcile “statement of financial position” balances as requested at the agreed intervals, providing auditable support for each balance
- Highlight any differences found and agree and take corrective action with the relevant Finance Officer
- Engage with non-financial stakeholders, including providing formal and informal training, in order to assist with their financial requirements and procedures
- Assist the Finance Officers in the provision of the financial data required to produce the Annual Accounts, Management Accounts, Board Reports and other returns required, ensuring the data provided is robust and fully supported with clear audit trail
- Assist the finance team in the delivery of the finance improvement project currently underway and in future developments, improvements and other new policy initiatives
Key Requirements:
- Experience of using accounting/ERP systems
- Ability to build effective working relationships with people at all levels
- Experience in financial transaction processing: e.g. journals, purchase orders, invoices, expense claim forms etc
- Ability to generate timely and accurate financial information and reports
- Able to produce clear and concise working papers/schedules to support the Finance Manager
- Excel: confident in the use of Excel, with the ability to manipulate source data in a simple but effective manner providing accurate analysis in an appropriate timeframe
- Strong skills and competency in the use of Microsoft Office packages
- Experience and understanding of processing purchase orders, goods receipts, invoices and claims in a financial accounting system
- Experience of preparation of reconciliations, trial balance and management accounting reports
If you have the right experience for this role and feel your skills and experience match the requirements, or if you would like more information on the role, please contact Sara Panti on 020 7557 7667 and email your CV to spanti@venngroup.com