Finance Assistant – 12 month contract

Finance Assistant – 12 month contract to £40,000

This extremely well established financial services organisation has an excellent reputation and due to a maternity leave is looking for an experienced finance assistant, initially for a twelve month contract.

The successful candidate will have experience posting journals, reconciling balance sheet items and an understanding the profit and loss account. Good Excel skills including the ability to manipulate data, combine information from different sources in differing formats and design a working spreadsheet from scratch are essential.

Duties

To process financial data from a number of sources, including:

Bank statements

Client expense forms

Funds statements

Distribution statements

Investment reports

To assist with the audit of clients’ financial statements, including:

Creation of audit files

Typing of Financial Statements

Organising information provided by clients, including audit engagement letters and related party questionnaires

Arranging the printing and signing of client accounts.

To assist with general accounting administration including filing Financial Statements with Companies house.

Support in the preparation and submission of corporate and partnership tax returns.

To carry out periodic bank reconciliations of client bank accounts.

Support with bulk payment transactions on behalf of clients.

To help with ad hoc administrative tasks in other areas of the company as required.