Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant

Sub Division: Facilities Management

Location: Manchester

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday

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Purpose of Role

We are recruiting for a Finance Assistant to join an established finance team based at our Denton office.

Job Description

This is a transactional and administration-heavy finance position, supporting a dedicated portfolio of retail clients. The role will suit someone with previous office or finance administration experience who is looking to develop their career within finance, as well as candidates already working towards an AAT qualification. You will be working within a busy environment where accuracy, organisation and attention to detail are important, with responsibility for a range of day-to-day finance processes.

Responsibilities

• Processing a high volume of contractor timesheets and ensuring information is accurately recorded.
• Uploading and processing journals within SAP.
• Supporting the processing and administration of customer invoices.
• Monitoring and managing work in progress (WIP) and investigating any discrepancies.
• Reviewing financial information and resolving differences between systems, timesheets and invoices.
• Processing subcontractor payments and supporting the administration of Euro transactions for a portfolio of clients with sites across Ireland.
• Liaising with internal teams, contractors and clients to resolve queries and obtain missing information.
• Maintaining accurate financial records and ensuring transactions are processed within agreed timescales.

Essential Qualifications/Skills

• Previous experience within a finance, accounts or office administration environment.
• Comfortable working with high volumes of transactional data.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Confident using Microsoft Excel; advanced Excel skills, including PivotTables, would be advantageous.
• Ideally experienced with SAP or another finance/ERP system, although training can be provided.
• Comfortable investigating discrepancies and following issues through to resolution.
• Able to work independently while also contributing to a wider finance team.
• Studying towards, or interested in studying towards, AAT would be advantageous.

Development & Progression

This role offers a good opportunity for someone looking to build their experience within a busy commercial finance environment. For individuals studying towards AAT, support can be provided with your studies, including the potential for day release to attend your course. You will gain exposure to a broad range of transactional finance processes, including invoicing, journals, contractor payments, WIP, reconciliations and international transactions involving Euro payments.

In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.

We are VINCI Facilities – experts in the built environment. VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost-effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders – and we were named the top-ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020. We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish. We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential.

Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.

VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.