An independent regulator has a rare opening for a Finance Administrator to join their established team. You will ideally either be a finance graduate who is seeking their second career opportunity, or a school leaver with circa 12-24 months experience in finance admin.
You will enjoy working on a flexible, hybrid basis, as well as 38 days annual leave (including BH days), and a generous pension from day one, as well numerous other benefits and ongoing training and development.
Responsibilities:
- Process renewals from the levy and registration. Dealing with new applications to register within set timeframes. Dealing with them in a professional manner, liaising with all stakeholders.
- To deal with enquiry emails as well as bounce backs to ensure correct contact details are updated accordingly.
- Dealing with queries regarding invoices e.g. assessing financial accounts to set registration fee levels and invoicing accordingly.
- Manage the team email inboxes ensuring that all emails queries are responded to and/or escalated in a professional and timely way.
- Dealing with telephone queries and responding to call backs.
- To support the annual levy collection by issuing invoices, dealing with queries, and assessing fee levels.
- To review charity annual accounts and determine appropriate fee levels.
- To contribute to the ongoing improvement of the registration process.
- Carry out from time to time and as directed, any other reasonable duties as required to support the Team.
To assist the Finance Officer with basic finance tasks such as;
- Setting up suppliers
- Processing payments
- Credit control
- Completed reconciliations
Required Skills & Experience
Essential
- IT literate with the ability to confidently use Microsoft Office, in particular Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Good communication skills and telephone manner.
- A methodical approach to repetitive tasks with a high attention to detail.
- The ability to prioritise workload and work to strict deadlines
- Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise, multi-task and ensure attention to detail.
- Experience liaising with internal and external stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience of using CRM systems, familiarity with Salesforce would be an advantage.
- Experience of Xero would be an advantage but not essential
- Knowledge/experience of assisting with registration schemes.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Basic knowledge of reviewing accounts.
Please apply without delay to be considered for this exciting opportunity.