Payments & Banking Analyst 18 Month Ftc

We're pleased to announce that SThree is looking for a Payment & Banking Analyst to join our team based in Glasgow on an 18 month fixed term contract. In this role, you'll be responsible for ensuring all payments across all SThree Regions are made timelyand accurately from accounts payment non trade, employee expenses, manual payments, and ad hoc payroll using banking portals and working to ensure the highest quality process is followed.

**Who will you be working for?**

SThree is the global STEM-specialist talent partner that connects sought-after specialists in life sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics with dynamic organisations across the world. We are the number one destination for talent in the best STEMmarkets: these are today's unsung heroes who positively shape the future. Now we're helping them shape their own futures.

Operating through a global house of specialist recruitment brands we understand our client's resourcing needs, matching sought-after skills with dynamic organisations, game-changers with change-makers.

**About this role**

As Payment & Banking Analyst you'll ensure bank statements are reconciled daily, all bank transactions are allocated in a timely manner and month end deadlines are met.

Responsibilities will include:

- Process payments for Accounts Payable Non-Trade
- Process weekly payments for employee expenses, maintenance of any held expenses
- Process ad hoc and regular ad hoc payments
- Process Accounts Receivable customer refunds
- Review exception lists to ensure all exceptions are resolved
- Maintenance of rejected payment tracker following an end to end rejection process
- Maintaining unallocated vendor account
- Ensure all payments are audit compliant
- Follow controls checklist process
- A daily bank statement reconciliation is performed
- Manage daily clearance of bank statement transactions, including working with sales ledger team to ensure receipts are managed on a timely basis
- Daily extract of sales receipts maintenance
- Month end process and timetable is adhered to
- Maintenance of Direct Debits
- Maintenance of Banking templates
- Build strong working relationship with banks providers and internal treasury
- Manage mailbox queries and follow up on outstanding queries in accordance with agreed SLA's and KPI's
- Reaching to banks/internal stakeholders to ensure accurate information is provided
- Manage credit card monthly statements downloads
- Manage administration of SThree credit cards

**What skills and experience should you have?**
- Strong background in Payment/Banking/Accounts Payables
- Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant experience
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to explain complex financial matters clearly
- Advanced Microsoft Excel experience necessary (VLOOKUPS, SUMIF, Pivot Tables) with an excellent standard of formatting.
- A good working knowledge of financial systems (previous experience of SAP is advantageous)
- Strong customer and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills

**Qualifications**:

- Qualified, Part Qualified/Finalist CIMA/ACCA Accountant, but not essential

**As well as all the standard benefits you come to expect, we also offer**
- The choice to work flexibly from home and the office, in line with our new hybrid working principles.
- Annual bonus linked to company and personal performance
- Generous 28-day annual holiday allowance in additional to public holidays
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Five days paid Caregiver/Dependant leave per annum
- Five days paid off per year for volunteering '
- Company sick pay to support your mental and physical well-being
- Financial, physical and mental well being support
- Competitive family policies
- Private healthcare, discounted dental insurance and health-scheme cash back (after qualifying period)
- Opportunity to participate in the company share scheme
- Access to a range of retail discounts and savings

At SThree we pride ourselves on our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we have a number of programmes in place to ensure that our people are valued and respected every day. With a sharp focus on training and development, we go above and beyond to ensurethat our colleagues have adequate support to excel in their careers.
- We are also really excited to announce our permanent move to hybrid working so we are encouraging our people to work where they feel most productive - with a blended office/home working model_

**SThree are committed to ensuring equal opportunities, fairness of treatment, dignity, work-life balance and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the workplace for all staff and job applicants.