Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.
EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.
Role Summary
As a Finance Administrator you will be joining a team of over 30 Accountancy professionals (split 65% Accountants 35% Accounts Administrators) working together to service more than 200 clients.
Core duties and responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
- Provide Accounts Administration service to clients in line with SLAs.
- Responsible for operating, maintaining and reconciling client accounting records.
- Operate computerised accounting systems and maintenance of data, filing and records for department, checking the integrity of data.
- Accurate processing of a wide range of routine and non-routine payment transactions and documentation within defined procedures.
- Use of internet banking for Information gathering, and electronic payments in local and foreign currencies
- Prepares cheque and credit transfer disbursements and effect payments.
- Resolves customer enquiries (oral and written) based on competent working knowledge of the customer requirements.
- Drafting of non-standard correspondence in response to customer enquiries.
- Reconcile bank accounts and banking records.
- Prepare periodical reports on reconciliation results.
- Input customer details and access customer information.
- Collates and analyses data to produce routine reports, schedules, and summaries in order to update customer records, resolves customer queries.
- Provision of technical guidance to other team members.
Skills, Attributes and Behaviours:
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills, and behaviours:
- Security Clearance - you will have to undergo additional secure vetting for this role so you must be a UK resident for at least the last 5 years with no longer than 30 days outside of the UK at a time.
- Qualified or part-qualified AAT (preferred but not essential, on job training can be implemented as part of your development)
- GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English Grade C and above.
- Previous experience working within a financial environment.
- Previous experience working with Microsoft Office packages.
- Experience and collaborating of achieving SLA's.
- Good written and communication skills.
- Close attention to detail.
What We Offer
- Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
- All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
- Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
- Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
- Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
- Time Off - Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
- Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
- Learning & Development - Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks