Finance Operations Specialist

2 weeks ago


Peterborough, Peterborough, United Kingdom Chart Industries Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an ambitious and detail-oriented Finance Assistant to join our finance team in Peterborough. As a key member of our team, you will support various financial transactions and reporting tasks, while playing a critical role in cost budget management.

This is a permanent position working 37.5 hours per week with hybrid working arrangements that allow for flexibility and collaboration time with the team in our modern offices.

Responsibilities
  • Cost Budget Management: Conduct monthly reviews with cost centre owners to assess results, risks, and opportunities against budgets. Produce key reports to help the business understand variances in month-end results, and take ownership of overhead forecasts as part of the budgeting and forecasting process.
  • Support Project Controller: Assist with WIP management, including weekly labour transaction reviews, timesheet data analysis, and updating and reconciling material and stock transactions.
  • Assist Accounts Receivable: Issue sales invoices, handle credit note requests, raise order acknowledgements, post daily cash receipts, and follow up with customers on payments.
  • Support Accounts Payable: Process purchase invoices with 3-way matching against GRN and PO, resolve invoicing discrepancies, and raise payments in the banking system.
  • Reconcile Balance Sheets: Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations and produce month-end journals for review and upload into the accounting system.
  • Contribute to Monthly Management Accounts: Support the production of monthly management accounts, including deliverables into the Group consolidation system, and work with the Financial Controller on budgeting and forecasting.

The ideal candidate will have professional qualifications, high standards, excellent communication skills, resilience and adaptability, organisational skills, and technical proficiency.

About You
  • Professional Qualifications: Ideally, you are part-qualified (AAT / CIMA) and committed to completing your professional qualification.
  • High Standards: You maintain very high standards in your work and are focused on achieving team results.
  • Communication Skills: You are confident and effective in working with non-financial teams and are proactive in engaging others to solve problems.
  • Resilience and Adaptability: You are resilient, a self-starter with a can-do attitude, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven corporate environment.
  • Organisational Skills: You are organised, with excellent prioritising skills, and have a drive to improve current processes.
  • Technical Proficiency: You are proficient in Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel and Word.


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