Finance Operations Assistant

**Finance Operations Assistant - Banking**

**Role Summary**

Working in the Finance Operations Team, the Finance Operations Assistant - Banking role is key to ensuring that our recording is accurate, complete and done on a timely basis, in line with the expectations of the business. A key part of the role is to challenge the status quo and facilitate a continuous improvement culture underpinned by excellent service provision. Team working and collaboration are essential to be successful in the role as well as an open mind to change as more financial accounting and month end activities move into the team.

**What You’ll Do**
- Ensuring the accuracy, complete, and timely recording and reconciliation of the group’s cash and debt
- Maintenance of accurate financial records including monitoring failed transactions, downloading bank statements, setting up payments, recording receipts
- Analysis of POS and web reports, reconciliations to accounting system, and bank receipts
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations on a timely basis, ensuring any discrepancies are investigated and resolved
- Suggest and implement new processes and controls where needed, to ensure efficiencies are made or controls strengthened
- Ensure that ledgers are accurately controlled, with the timely and robust reconciliation of all control accounts (including investigation and correlation of variances), so that the financial position of the organisation can be determined accurately at any time
- Assist with business reporting within the team
- Take ownership of queries and problems ensuring and excellent customer experience for both internal and external customers
- Build relationships with stakeholders in Finance, Store Operations, IT, Payroll, and across the business to become a trusted partner on matters relating to cash and debt
- Additional ad hoc tasks

**Essential Skills**
- Financial acumen, including a sound knowledge of basic accounting principles and of effective financial controls and ensure controls are adhered to consistently
- Strong analytical abilities
- Ability to identify and drive process improvement and efficiencies
- Accuracy and diligence, reviewing own work to ensure accuracy
- Constantly seeking out opportunities to develop self
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated, resilient and able to demonstrate initiative
- Team player who is collaborative in approach and actively seeks to support others

**Desirable Skills**
- IT skills with strong knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, particularly Excel
- Competent in the use of ERP systems (SAP desirable)
- Not restricted to but preferably 2 - 3 years of experience in a Finance Environment
- Behaviours We Require
- Change mindset - supports and embraces change, understands the rational for change and makes improvements within own role
- Positive, can-do attitude, seeking out ways to contribute to the wider team and business
- Celebrates success by recognising the achievement and contribution of others and provides constructive feedback to colleagues on a timely basis.
- Resilience - has a positive attitude even when under short-term pressure, working hard to deliver results
- Seeks out responsibility for taking on new challenges within their team.