Robert Half are delighted to partner with a rapidly growing SME in order to find their next Finance Assistant. This is an exciting development opportunity for a candidate who is looking to start a career in Finance and develop in a progressive, growing environment with access to study support.
Role Responsibilities
- To support the Finance Manager, Managing Director managing the financial aspects of the services offered by the Business.
- Reconciliation of Financial reports to be completed accurately and by agreed deadlines.
- To monitor underwriting performance and, under delegated responsibility, make recommendations to the underwriters with regards to pricing.
- To support the set-up, monitor and maintain adequate systems to report on sales and underwriting both to internal and external customers/partners.
- To become familiar with our purpose and values, making it core to everything you do and withal interactions with colleagues, our partners and customers must be representative of these values.
- To reconcile direct debit and credit card collections made into our premium account with system generated reports on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis.
- To report and arrange quarterly payment of commissions
- Review, prepare and set up of monthly renewal prices
- Timely generation of invoices as required by the business.
- To chase debtors as required with the support of Relationship Managers where appropriate.
- To maintain and upload net pricelists for Buying Group members on a twice monthly basis including latest rebates and prices.
- To monitor adherence to the purchases of dedicated products by Buying Group
- Be a point of contact for operational banking and BACS queries - internal and external.
- Be responsible for keeping up to date with any BACS/banking regulatory changes, share all relevant information when required.
- To be a representative of the visions and values of the company.
- To be aware of potential risks within the business that may affect your immediate area of responsibility.
Role Requirements:
- A solid understanding of MS Excel is essential. This application is used most frequently in the production of reports and other tools used by the business both internally and externally.
- Strong customer-centric approach (internal and external customers)
- Excellent planning, organisational and analytical skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Methodical in approach to tasks
- Excellent time management skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Able to demonstrate flexibility to potentially evolve with the role as the company continues to grow
- Self-motivated and able to work independently
- Strong communication skills in a variety of media including: email, writing, oral
- Solid understanding of computer software packages including: MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint
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