Finance Assistant

5 months ago


Dorking, United Kingdom Optima Recruitment Full time

Our client is seeking a full time Finance Assistant to assist the Financial Accountant and Head of Finance with regular financial requests.
- First point of contact for transactional queries relating to bookings for internal and external stakeholders.
- Working within the controlling team, delivering high levels of service to Retail and Head Office teams.
- Superuser of reservation system to deal with financial queries on bookings and gift lists.
- Assisting retail staff with failed customer credit card payments to ensure processed and allocated appropriately.
- Allocation of customer/agent payments to bookings made directly to company bank account.
- Process daily customer refunds and ex-gratia customer service refunds.
- Dily banking allocation and categorisation of funds.
- Assist with allocation and refund of gift list funds and requests from the gift list team.
- Produce weekly agent statements and ensure payments/refunds are made and allocated.
- Maintain finance mailboxes to ensure internal and external stakeholders receive high standard of service and actions taken on requests.
- Chasing of cash/debt collection from both direct clients and agents to ensure mínimal bad debt.
- Allocate miscellaneous banking through regular journals.
- Assist the accurate reporting of the sales ledger and retail control ledger accounts and take action on bookings to rectify differences found.
- Completion of journals to facilitate accurate financial reporting at month / year end.
- Assist Financial Accountant in producing evidence during audit fieldwork at year end reporting.
- Assistance with generation and data entry for annual HMRC submissions (P11d, PSA) and monthly/quarterly ONS submissions.
- Submission of ABTA and CAA monthly/quarterly returns.
- Offer support to Financial Accountant/Head of Finance on ad-hoc finance requests.
- Completion of monthly General Ledger Journals and Reconciliations.

**Person Specification**:

- Ideally working towards an accountancy qualification
- Strong interpersonal skills to build strong relationships other staff
- The ability to adhere to strict deadlines and work under pressure
- Strong IT Skills and ability to use multiple different systems
- Working towards accountancy technician qualification (AAT or equivalent)
- Can-do attitude with willingness to learn new skills
- Willingness to pick up additional ad-hoc tasks as requested
- Acute attention to detail to ensure actions taken are timely and accurate
- Problem Solver

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Salary**: £21,000.00-£23,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

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

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: K0002


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