Finance Assistant

DescriptionFutures Recruitment Services are supporting their client in the heart of Chichester for a Finance Assistant to join the team on a temporary basis
You will be delivering timely and efficient specialist financial administrative support to a team or across teams with an awareness of team requirements
Prioritises day-to-day work in the short term, working with colleagues to deliver objectives and customer focussed service.
Key responsibilities for the Finance Assistant:
* Processes timely and accurate payments, invoices, or other financial administration tasks relating to the team service [or service across teams] as instructed.
* Uses SAP or other large computerised financial system to undertake these processes according to the procedure
Performs basic related calculations and works with formulae where necessary.
* Analyses technical financial information relating to the team's specialism and draws conclusions relating to individual budgets, payments, assessments or other financial processes in order to process varied tasks appropriately.
* Assists with the production of management information/statistics as required, drawing relevant information and statistics from manual and computerised records and calculating and manipulating data as appropriate.
* Update and maintains relevant computerised and manual records relating to the service appropriately and accurately.
* Follows procedures and processes in order to respond independently to day to day telephone, email and written queries relating to the team specialism including using initiative to resolve unexpected problems where necessary.
Essential skills and qualifications:
• 4 GCSEs with A-C passes including Maths and English or equivalent qualification or experience demonstrating that level of numeracy and literacy.
• Association of Accounting Technicians [AAT] part qualified at Foundation level NVQ 2, or studying towards an equivalent qualification or an interest in progressing with this qualification.
• Relevant technical knowledge of procedures, systems, and practices associated with operating an administrative service in an office environment.
• Experience working in a customer-orientated environment.
• Experience providing specialist advice to managers or customers
Including explaining financial information or other technical information.
• Some knowledge and awareness of accounting principles and/or the processes and systems associated with working within a financial environment.
• Some awareness and technical skills in the use of major computerised financial systems for invoicing or a similar service, for example, SAP Finance or Mainframe.
• Experience of working in a financial environment.
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PO19, Chichester, West Sussex
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