Banking Assistant

**Cogito is proud to be the Talent Partner of IVC Evidensia. We are very excited to be supporting the business as part of their accelerated growth plans and investment in their Finance Teams.**
- **About IVC Evidensia**_
- **With around 2,600 practices, clinics and hospitals across 20 countries in Europe and Canada, IVC Evidensia is one of the world’s largest veterinary care groups, delivering the highest quality care to millions of animals every year, resulting in revenues of over £3.0bn annually. We are focused on delivering our purpose of healthy animals, happy owners and our size and financial strength benefits every clinic, customer and patient. Due to the company’s ongoing expansion, we are looking to further grow our Finance Team which forms part of our Support Operations Centre, located between Bristol and Bath.**_

**About the role**:
The mBanking Assistant role is tasked with owning the end-to-end process of integrating new acquisitions into the group and ensuring all bank accounts are reconciled. In addition, by completing and maintaining the business-as-usual processes they ensure the smooth running of the team.

**Responsibilities**:
Look after on average 8-12 new acquisitions all at varying stages. There is a wide range of surgeries to look after, of different sizes, scale and location (with the UK and Europe).

Working for the Mainland Europe department means you will work with different policies, direct debits and legislations.

The main responsibilities are to reconcile bank accounts, liaise with shareholders to unsure all unknown transactions are identified and correct, and work towards month end deadlines. You will also be require to complete integration of new acquisitions and ensure all legacy bank accounts are closed within the 90 day SLA.

**What we are looking for**:

- Studying AAT (or similar)
- Able to work to a high degree of accuracy
- Confident of dealing with a high-volume workload
- Clear and confident communication skills
- Proven ability to meet deadlines
- Excellent IT skills - including intermediate Excel
- A questioning mind, constantly looking for where improvements can be made
- Flexible approach to work
- A strong team ethic

**What you get in return**:

- 5 weeks holiday (increasing with service) plus bank holidays
- Your birthday as a paid day off each year
- Discounted veterinary fees within IVC practices
- Company pension
- EAP and supportive wellbeing programmes
- Single private healthcare
- Family friendly policies

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Keynsham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Keynsham