Finance Assistant

The Finance Assistant’s key responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to;

• Support raising manual journals on accruals, prepayment and other balance sheet codes to ensure accurate capture of all financial activities.
• Support monthly bank reconciliations, resolution and clearing of all differences, suspense entries, on a daily/weekly/monthly basis in order to maintain quality standards.
• Support and assist in the annual external year-end audit and liaise appropriately with the external auditors and engage relevant stakeholders.
• Support promoting and guiding financial governance to the wider stakeholders on the finance processes.
• Supporting stakeholders on the relevant finance systems i.e. Oracle requisition and PO.
• Ensure delivery of high volume, diverse and complex range of bookkeeping accounting activities to set deadlines.
• Provides support and back-up to relevant colleagues across wide range of activities, particularly in ensuring effective financial probity.
• Professional competencies as identified; compliance with statutory/departmental/HOS requirements; values of HOS; objective timescales as agreed.
• Maintains records of financial transactions by establishing accounts; posting transactions; ensure legal requirements compliance.
• Utilise working knowledge and experience of using Oracle Fusion to support month end management account production.
• Compiling the month end work – Production of timely and accurate monthly financial statements

The Successful Applicant