Finance/ Operations Assistant

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Franklin Templeton Investments Full time

Martin Currie is delighted to offer a Finance/Operations Assistant role to support the team in Edinburgh.
- What is the Business Operations team responsible for?_

The team carry out a number of different functions, servicing both the internal business and our parent entity. We are responsible for monthly and quarterly MI reporting, including financials and assets under management. We oversee the outsourced accounts payable function, liaising with both staff and the AP team and liaise with stakeholders in the business around expenses and queries. We provide ad hoc reporting and analyse work for varies people within the business, giving us a chance to work closely with all areas of the business.
- What are the ongoing responsibilities of the Business Operations Assistant?_

Liaising with Franklin Templeton (FT) Accounts Payable (AP)- Respond to supplier & staff expenses enquiries.- Monitor our internal expenses system and follow up with staff for invoice approvals/queries.- Liaise with FT AP where necessary.

Bookkeeping- Review Visa card statements for compliance to expense policy and circulate to staff for completion of expense form.- Post items for visa card statements onto nominal ledger- Process and keep an eye on bank reconciliation for all entities and create ah-hoc transactions when required to balance off any outstanding amounts.- Create and process new supplier requests.- Journal entries to correct allocations.- Work on accruals with MC and FT teams

Banking- Inputting payments to the banking system ad hoc payments when required.- Managing the issuance of new credit cards, arranging for replacement or cancelling existing cards as required- Maintain list of authorised signatories and advise bank of changes.

Reporting- Responsible for weekly and monthly updates on our Assets Under Management flows and other ad hoc reporting requests.- Ad hoc AUM/Flows reporting.
- What qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful?_- Some administrative experience preferred but not essential.- A strong work ethic, keen to learn and to develop an understanding of the business.- Numerate with an interest and ability to analyse financial data.- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite- Good organisation, communication skills and time management skills- Thorough and diligent - good attention to detail- Highly motivated and enthusiastic about providing an excellent service to customers.- A willingness to change and adapt in an evolving virtual environment.- Ability to work as part of a team.

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What makes Martin Currie unique?

In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Martin Currie, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of Total Reward—the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results. Highlights of our benefits include - flexible hybrid working, contributory pension scheme, private healthcare plan, PHI, life insurance and many others.

We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities.
- Martin Currie values diversity in its workforce and welcomes employees from different backgrounds, generations, capabilities, cultural identification, sexual orientations, and gender expression, in addition to other attributes that contribute to a truly diverse and inclusive community.- Our Values (Learning, Ambition, Responsibility and Partnership) are integral to how we do things in Martin Currie and key to our purpose of Investing to Improve Lives.- Learning - We strive to continually improve. Our learning comes from not only mistakes but our successes too. We challenge ourselves to regularly build our collective and individual knowledge, skills, and expertise.- Ambition - We have a desire and determination to achieve. Our ambition is shown by our appetite to take on new challenges, achieve the best outcomes for clients and grow our business. We are always looking to raise the bar.- Responsibility - We take control and see it as our duty to embrace tasks and challenges. Our responsibility is demonstrated by us taking ownership and control of tasks, challenges, and being accountable for the outcome.- Partnership - We work together and avoid silos. Our partnership is shown by each of us bringing our individual expertise and diversity of thought in a way that enables us to deliver our best work together.- At Franklin Templeton and across its SIMs, everything we do is focused on one thing - delivering better client outcomes. We do that by partnering closely with our clients, assessing their strategic needs, and identifying the solution or solutions that can meet the challenge. Franklin Templeton acquired Legg Mason and its Specialist Investment Manager’s (SIM) in 2020 creatin


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