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SalaryManchester City Centre
Full Time (Hybrid Working, 3 days in office)
Permanent
We are partnering with a Manchester City Centre client to recruit a Bookkeeper/Finance Officer who will support the Head of Finance in ensuring smooth operation of the transactional finance function.
The role will cover a wide range of transactional finance duties in this interesting setting. You will be liaising with a wide network of stakeholders across different business sectors so, as well as your strong transactional finance skills, you’ll also be an engaging and professional individual. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a small and supportive finance team in one of the city’s key organisations.
Key responsibilities of the Bookkeeper/Finance Officer:
- Full Sales Ledger Function - Using Sage, you’ll maintain the whole sales ledger function, raising sales invoices, producing statements, inputting payments into on-line banking system ready for authorisation
- Credit Control – monitoring and chasing debt, compiling debtors report
- Full Purchase Ledger Function and reconciliations - Processing of purchase invoices with their respective purchase orders, ensuring invoices are matched, recorded, and signed off, inputting into Sage, Statement reconciliations
- Recording, monitoring and analysis of all expenditure, reconciliation to budget holder detail, with variance analysis
- Bank reconciliations
- Reconciling and posting of Petty Cash expenditure
- Reconciling, and posting of Credit card expenditure
- Ad-hoc reporting and finance related projects
- Assisting with month-end and year-end year preparation and procedures and the production of reports and analysis
- Streamlining and improving processes for efficiency and smooth running of the various aspects of the transactional finance function
- Sound knowledge of financial accounting and understanding of financial transactions
- Experience of working with SAGE or similar
- Experience and use of commercial online banking
- Experience of sales ledger and managing debtors
- Good systems and Excel skills in relation to data sorting and analysis
- Exceptional attention to detail with accurate inputting
- Excellent organisational skills including time management, accurate record keeping and an ability to prioritise
- Excellent telephone manner and correspondence skills
- Self-motivated with ability to complete tasks with minimal supervision
- Experience of working in a commercially confidential environment
If you are interested in this Bookkeeper/Finance Officer position and feel your experience matches the criteria then please apply now for immediate consideration or for more information please contact Rachael Hodges. Medlock Partners are a professional services recruitment specialist. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances, including minorities and those with disabilities. Please note our advertisements use years' experience and salary levels purely as a guide. We are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
