Finance Assistant

Job Title: Finance Assistant

Location: Bracknell/Hybrid

Department: Finance

Working Hours: Full time, 36 hours per week

Contract type: 12 months FTC

About Us

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About the Role

As our Finance assistant, you’ll support the Finance Team in the delivery of timely and accurate financial information and the delivery of compliant efficient and diligent financial practices which facilitate the assessment of the Institutes financial performance and sustainability.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining the customer ledger
• Setting up new customer accounts
• Chase outstanding debts from customers
• Resolving problems regarding invoice/credit notes
• Allocating payments received
• Processing and reconciliation of invoices and credit notes
• Managing customer/member refunds
• Conducting daily/weekly and monthly income reconciliations
• Ad hoc analysis as required by the business
• Manage and resolve customer and member payment queries
• Manual calculation and input of transactional data

About You

The ideal candidate will hold the following skills and/ or experience:

• Understanding of accounting, finance, and management principles
• Demonstrable experience in an accounting/finance team environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Language skills in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese speaking.
• Delivering information clearly and accurately with strong attention to detail to maintain accuracy of financial records.
• Ability to work to tight timescales, organised and flexible, with a focus on excellence.
• A confident IT user with good Excel skills and an ability to pick up new IT systems quickly.

Why Work For Us?

We can offer you not only the opportunity to make a real difference with the work you do, but the chance to do that in a friendly, flexible and welcoming working environment, where we’ll show you that we’re committed to your personal wellbeing and to your development within your role.

We’ll offer you a competitive salary and a fantastic range of benefits, which include:

• 25 days holiday (rising to 29 with service) plus bank holidays, a birthday day off and Christmas closure
• A private pension scheme with employer contributions, plus free pension advice with our benefit advisors
• Learning and development opportunities to support your career development
• Private medical insurance (includes Online GP and Wellbeing Assistance) and a Health Cash
• Plan (includes dental and optical cashback)
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Life Assurance
• Access to resources, tools and services to support your wellbeing including an employee assistance programme and mental health first aiders at work
• Volunteering policy
• Peer recognition scheme
• Disability committed employer and EDI committed- As reflected in our values and competency framework, it is our ethos to respect and value people’s differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as a good work life balance. We want employees to recognise the value that difference and an inclusive mindset brings to interactions with others.

We are proud to say that we hold a Gold Investors in People Award – which we really hope will show you our commitment to you as an employer.

How Do I Apply?

To read more about the role, you can download our job description on this page.

To apply for this role please submit a full CV and covering letter. If you would like any further information, please contact us by email on [email protected]

Please note that we may consider applications as they are submitted and therefore you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.