Finance Assistant

2 months ago


London, United Kingdom First Tram Operations Full time

**Who are we?**

Tram Operations Limited (TOL) is a FirstGroup subsidiary that is proud to operate the London Trams service for Transport for London (TfL). The tram service with its 39 tramstops provides inter-urban, cross-borough services, in Southwest London, for customers travelling between Wimbledon and New Addington or Beckenham Junction and Elmers End to Croydon.

London Trams provides excellent connectivity with 7 National Rail stations in the region, such as East Croydon, Wimbledon, Elmers End and Beckenham Junction. The system also connects with many bus routes.

With over 22 million passenger journeys a year, London Trams has some of the busiest routes in the country, operating over 4,200 services each week across the tramway. Travelling with trams is environmentally friendly and seen as relaxing, fast, and efficient with excellent travel connections.

As a business we operate in a very open and supportive culture.

**First Tram Operations** is part of FirstGroup, the largest rail operator in the UK and second largest bus operator in the UK outside London. FirstGroup operates services throughout the UK and Ireland, with over 30,000 employees providing services that make travel smoother and life easier. FirstGroup works hard to reduce its impact on the environment, introducing cleaner and more environmentally responsible methods of transport.

**About the job**

We are recruiting for the position of Finance Assistant. This is a pivotal role within the company and reports directly to the Finance Director.

The key objectives of the role are to provide day to day accounts support to the Finance Director, accurate financial administration support, collaborate with the Financial Accountant to ensure that KPI's of the Finance Department are achieved, and provide timely reporting information on all account issues to the Finance Director.

It is essential that the postholder is qualified to AAT standard or working towards achieving this, has excellent communication and motivational skills to engage with all levels of staff, and has experience of working with Word/Excel. Being familiar with financial databases and payroll systems would be advantageous, attention to detail and providing accurate work is crucial in this role.

**The duties for the role include**:

- Administering petty cash,
- Processing purchase ledger invoices, and purchase orders,
- Providing payments to suppliers to schedule using BACS and reconciling associated statements.
- You will assist in processing cash book payments and receipts, processing sales invoices, including journals relating to the sales ledger.
- Managing credit control of receipts, banking and reconciling the Tramlink shop payments.
- You will be responsible for reconciling payroll from timesheets and sending accurate figures to FirstGroup payroll.
- Administration of the Pension Contribution Scheme. You will also work alongside internal and external auditors.

**You'll need to be**:

- Qualified to AAT standard (or working towards).

**As a minimum, you will need to have**:

- Good communication and motivational skills to engage with all levels of staff.
- Computer literate, experience of working with Word, Excel and Financial databases and payroll systems would be advantageous.
- Attention to detail, and providing accurate work is essential.

We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA+, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We maintain a zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.

We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.

We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.


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