Finance Assistant

6 months ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Q Underwriting Full time

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**The Role: Finance Administrator and Credit Control**

As a Finance Administrator and Credit Control professional at Q Underwriting, you will be responsible for providing essential administrative support to the finance aspects of specified brands and functions. Your key duties will include cash postings, reconciliation, credit control, insurer reporting and ad hoc duties. You will report directly to a team lead and play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth financial operations of the company.

This is a permanent opportunity based in Gloucester, offering a standard 35-hour workweek.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage and take ownership of the Credit Control function for specified brands including the running of aged debt and liaising with business leads/brokers
- Process refunds, insurer payments and ad hoc. payment, ensuring correct authorisation before processing for specified brands and products
- Query resolution with brokers
- Regularly update the finance system with information as required on a daily/weekly basis
- Perform reconciliation of accounts, both system and insurer
- Bank reconciliations
- Undertake ad hoc duties, including additional credit control, manual invoicing, manual receipts
- Cash sweeps
- Insurer bordereau generation

**Experience**:

- Essential: Maths and English GCSE or equivalent
- Experience using MS Office, including Excel
- Desirable: Previous experience in accounts, finance administration, and credit control

**Skills & Attributes**:

- Effective and positive communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong planning and organisational abilities.
- Excellent investigative skills leading to effective resolutions.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
- Proactive approach to handling queries and providing timely solutions
- Strong attention to detail.
- Effective written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work under deadlines.
- Adaptability, flexibility, and resilience.
- Positive response to change and ability to work well under pressure.
- Analytical approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

**Further information**

As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits
- Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
- Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
- Company pension scheme
- Very generous maternity and paternity leave packages
- A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
- Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
- Referral schemes
- Discounted rates on PIB products
- We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
- We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass - giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
- PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.



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