Finance Assistant
Description✓Manpower is currently recruiting a Finance Assistant to join our client based in Leeds city centre
✓As a Finance Assistant, you will be reporting in to the Finance Manager, you will be working as part of the wider team to ensure that finance operations and company administration runs smoothly and on time.
✓Hours - Office hours, 34 hours per week
✓Contract length - 6 months [with the view to extend]
✓Pay rate - £19.33 per hour
✓Main Duties
✓Input and check payment all invoices submitted to the region after ensuring that they have been authorised and approved for payment; and that the appropriate method of payment has been identified
✓Clarifying queries including any outstanding payments and ensuring budget/cost codes are properly applied in the purchase ledger.
✓Ensure information for the Regional General Fund is properly recorded including checking bank statements to ensure no unidentified transactions; and reconciling all bank transactions.
✓Ensuring all entries [income and expenditures] for the Regional local fund are processed; checked and allocated the appropriate budget/cost codes.
✓Process members expenses in the region; checking claims for compliance; seek relevant authorisation; book overnight accommodation where required, book flights where appropriate; arrange travel including issuing travel warrants or using on line systems
✓Ensure correct budget/cost codes are used in this process and that payments are made via electronic systems or cheque as appropriate.
✓Input and check appropriate member benefits for payment, ensuring proper qualification for benefit and regional authorisation
✓Arranges payment via electronic systems or cheque as appropriate.
✓Check dispute benefits payments; ensuring that benefit is appropriately applied via contact with local Officers and staff.
✓Receive record and keep secure all sources of income - allocate, process and receipt all monies and reconcile accounts.
✓Undertake any other administrative functions required by the Regional Secretary or departmental head.
✓Seeks to continually improve procedures and processes relating to all of the above areas.
✓Cooperates and collaborates with other regional administration colleagues whenever required to meet specific deadlines and/or targets in the region.
✓Skills/Knowledge/Ability
✓Good interpersonal skills, the ability to communicate with people at all levels.
✓Displays a flexible and co-operative approach to initiating and completing changes of processes / working practices.
✓Discretion and the ability to work to a high degree of confidentiality.
✓Awareness of security issues relating to financial information / cash handling etc.
✓Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
✓Ability to prioritise workloads.
✓Working knowledge of office systems and procedures.
✓Ability to extract statistics from computer records.
✓Excellent numeracy skills Show more →
✓As a Finance Assistant, you will be reporting in to the Finance Manager, you will be working as part of the wider team to ensure that finance operations and company administration runs smoothly and on time.
✓Hours - Office hours, 34 hours per week
✓Contract length - 6 months [with the view to extend]
✓Pay rate - £19.33 per hour
✓Main Duties
✓Input and check payment all invoices submitted to the region after ensuring that they have been authorised and approved for payment; and that the appropriate method of payment has been identified
✓Clarifying queries including any outstanding payments and ensuring budget/cost codes are properly applied in the purchase ledger.
✓Ensure information for the Regional General Fund is properly recorded including checking bank statements to ensure no unidentified transactions; and reconciling all bank transactions.
✓Ensuring all entries [income and expenditures] for the Regional local fund are processed; checked and allocated the appropriate budget/cost codes.
✓Process members expenses in the region; checking claims for compliance; seek relevant authorisation; book overnight accommodation where required, book flights where appropriate; arrange travel including issuing travel warrants or using on line systems
✓Ensure correct budget/cost codes are used in this process and that payments are made via electronic systems or cheque as appropriate.
✓Input and check appropriate member benefits for payment, ensuring proper qualification for benefit and regional authorisation
✓Arranges payment via electronic systems or cheque as appropriate.
✓Check dispute benefits payments; ensuring that benefit is appropriately applied via contact with local Officers and staff.
✓Receive record and keep secure all sources of income - allocate, process and receipt all monies and reconcile accounts.
✓Undertake any other administrative functions required by the Regional Secretary or departmental head.
✓Seeks to continually improve procedures and processes relating to all of the above areas.
✓Cooperates and collaborates with other regional administration colleagues whenever required to meet specific deadlines and/or targets in the region.
✓Skills/Knowledge/Ability
✓Good interpersonal skills, the ability to communicate with people at all levels.
✓Displays a flexible and co-operative approach to initiating and completing changes of processes / working practices.
✓Discretion and the ability to work to a high degree of confidentiality.
✓Awareness of security issues relating to financial information / cash handling etc.
✓Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
✓Ability to prioritise workloads.
✓Working knowledge of office systems and procedures.
✓Ability to extract statistics from computer records.
✓Excellent numeracy skills Show more →