Looking to start or develop your career in Finance? As an Accounts Assistant you will be joining the Financial Control team who are the central finance team at Foresters.
You will have the opportunity to work on bank and balance sheet reconciliations, processing supplier invoices, processing employee expenses, processing domestic and overseas payments and supporting the month end close of the ledger through the processing of journals. You will also support the annual external audit as well as providing ad-hoc support to the wider finance team which includes; financial reporting, FP&A, technical accounting, investment operations and payroll.
If you enjoy process improvement, controls and the use of technology to strengthen, optimise and automate manual processes then this is the role for you.

Your day to day will include:

• Reconciliations – perform daily and monthly reconciliations including bank and suspense account and other balance sheet reconciliations
• Payments – processing ad-hoc domestic and overseas payments in an accurate and timely manner
• Expenses – checking, processing and paying employee expenses
• Financial accounting – posting transactional system feeds into the general ledger as well as other ad hoc journals as required
• Queries – respond to queries from suppliers, employees, and internal stakeholders
• Supplier payments – supporting the accounting analyst with processing supplier invoices onto the invoicing system
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders particularly Customer Services for queries and payment information to enable them to provide excellent customer service
• Provide support and cover for other members of the Financial Control team as required

Working hours are 35 hours a week Monday to Friday. Start times can vary from 8am to 9.30am. After a successful training period there is flexibility to work from home up to 2/3 days a week.

Please refer the Job description for details