Finance Executive

**FINANCE EXECUTIVE**

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Location**:Central London (Bloomsbury)

**Salary**:up to £33K with excellent benefits including 25 days holiday, private healthcare, leisure travel insurance, gym subsidy, interest-free season ticket loan and cycle-to-work scheme

**Hours**:35 hours per week; hybrid working option

This is an excellent opportunity for a confident Finance Executive to join FDF, the largest and most influential food and drink trade body in the UK. The FDF has been around for over one hundred years, representing and advocating for the UK food and drinkmanufacturing industry.

As a Finance Executive, you’ll be looking after the Sales and Purchase Ledgers, processing payroll, preparing P11D’s and monthly pension contributions for upload. You will be working as part of the Corporate Services Team supporting staff as well as a numberof different Associations, preparing management accounts and completing statutory submissions such as VAT and Corporation Tax returns.

**Key responsibilities for the Finance Executive**
- Raise Sales Orders and Purchase Orders, setting up new customers and suppliers in FocalPoint
- Raise / process sales and purchase invoices and credit notes
- Credit control using agreed escalation process for aged debtors and creditors
- Record and bank all cheques received
- Review, reconcile and close sale and purchase ledgers including reconciling between the finance system (Dimensions), the CRM and expenses system
- Inductions and training for staff on how to best use FocalPoint
- Process monthly payment run, ad hoc and cashbook payments / receipts
- Supplier statement reconciliation
- Complete monthly bank reconciliations and balance sheet and sub ledger reconciliations including identifying solutions to resolve aged items
- Assist with the annual audit
- Prepare FDF VAT return and Grant accounts
- Provide monthly data for Finance Team KPI’s
- Update weekly cashflow forecast
- Investigate issues with the finance systems as they arise and work with our service provider (Access) and our internal IT/Digital teams to resolve

**Requirements for the Finance Executive**
- A good understanding of financial accounts and banking procedures
- Good communicator and ability to build good working relationships
- Strong organisational skills
- Numerate with an analytical mind
- Diligent with a good attention to detail
- Experience of VAT
- Experience with Dimensions, FocalPoint, Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook
- Experience of working for a trade association or similar member-led organisation

**Our Workplace**

We’re based in the heart of central London in a modern, bright open-plan office. We have a friendly work culture with great break-out spaces, quiet booths and opportunities for flexible-working. Our 'Feel Good for Life’ team regularly organises events andactivities to promote positive health and wellbeing.