- Are you an experienced finance processing officer?
- Do you have experience working within the charity sector?
- Are you looking for a new challenge in a 18 month contract role?
We are looking for an experienced Financial Processing Officer for this initial 18-month contract, to join this unique and exciting but extremely complex organisation based in the heart of London.
In this role as a Financial Processing Officer - accounts payable, you will work as part of their finance processing team undertaking key activities that includes all elements of accounts payable processing across the organisation and its subsidiary companies.
Your daily duties will include:
- Responsible for the processing of transactions in accordance with the agreed SLAs and targets for the team and the wider organisation and its subsidiaries.
- Processing purchase invoices, expense claims, credit card transactions and other payment documents using correct coding and VAT analysis.
- Working to key month-end processes and working to month-end processing deadlines, maintaining schedules and timetables.
- Working with a team of Financial Officers to ensure that the resolution of complex queries or customer complaints.
- Providing accurate information for the annual statutory audits, both external and internal.
- Promoting a continuous improvement approach within the processing team to support and ensure high quality and streamlined processes and controls.
The successful candidate will be an experienced Finance Officer with a good understanding of double-entry bookkeeping. You must have an excellent customer service approach with strong attention to detail and can 'hit the ground running' supporting this busy team.
It is essential that you have excellent systems skills including varied finance systems, including purchase to pay systems whilst being a competent user of Excel, a working knowledge of SAP would provide a distinct advantage.