Administrator / Accounts Administrator
Location: Leicester
Summary
Our client – a successful professional financial services business based in Leicester – is seeking an Administrator / Accounts Administrator to join their team on a full-time permanent basis.
- Process daily Crest cash settlement movements, ensuring all ledgers are updated & bargains accurately settled. A reconciliation to the Crest payment figure will also be undertaken so as to ensure that there is a full settlement sweep,
- Process other daily cash settlement activities, ensuring the client & broker ledger are correctly reflecting any such activities,
- Correctly action the transfer of the net CMR calculation on a daily basis once calculation has been done and confirmed by the Finance and Risk department,
- Bank all cheques into client settlement bank account or any other qualifying ‘client account', ensuring accurate records are kept of date of receipt and the payee counterparty,
- Manage & keep secure the firms chosen electronic banking systems,
- Prepare & dispatch payments to clients, ensuring that payment and the payee are authentic and comprehensive records are retained of all payments both successful and rejected,
- Produce client cash account statements upon request, checking statements are an accurate reflection of cash transactions relating to the request,
- Action identified differences in the client banking reconciliation in a timely manner, recording action taken & reason why,
- Prepare & dispatch client income payments according to information received by the client facing teams,
- Keep accurate records of unallocated client monies, ensure these are cleared in line with the firm's policies & procedures,
- Ensure any client money credit on an individual client is cleared within the timeframes set by the firm's policies in accordance with the client standing details,
- Calculate a daily figure of funds to be transferred to/from the firm for fees & charges, ensure transfers are completed within agreed timeframes,
- Daily calculations of funds held on EUR and/or USD accounts, convert to GBP as required.
The Right Person
- Excellent numeracy skills
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work as a team
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Experience in financial services environment an advantage
Package
- Appointment Type: Permanent
- Salary: £24,000 - £25,000 (subject to experience)
- Hours: Full-Time 9am – 5:30pm (office-based)
- Holiday 20 Days + Bank Holidays
- Private Health