Graduate Financial Administrator And Analyst

Are you looking to build a career in Finance and accounting?
Are you an articulate (written or oral), graduate who is comfortable presenting? Our client is looking to grow their managers of the future and seeking a Graduate Financial Administrator and Analyst to join them.
What's on Offer
This is a new and key position. You will be provided with thorough training to be able to use their systems and understand their processes so you are confident fulfilling the day-to-day responsibilities of the job
The role offers flexible working with 2 days required in the office. The office is located in SE London and is 25 mins on the train from London Bridge.
The starting salary is £25,000 with a bonus of up to £2,500 (10%). They offer an amazing benefits package including a very competitive Company Pension with 10% contribution (4 mths service)
About the Client
We are an international market leader in training and therapy products for emergency medicine and critical care. By using immersive technologies and data-centric insights we can help to increase survival and improve healthcare quality. We empower lifesavers, and healthcare workers, to help them save more lives.
About the Role
The Financial Administrator and Analyst role will help you to better understand the business, talk to multiple departments, Customers and partners and play an integral role in ensuring our business remains financially strong. Once you have mastered the administrative tasks within the role, we’ll begin to involve you with several transformation projects, where you will be helping to deliver and drive forwards some of the key changes we need to make as the business transitions.
About you
We’re looking for people with an interest in management and business change to join the organization. It also helps if you are inquisitive about advanced technologies and improving patient outcomes. If you’d like to join a business which is undergoing a significant transition as it drives forward, we’d love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
These are some of the core duties you'll perform. However, your role will be dynamic, and you'll be asked to take on additional relevant tasks and encouraged to contribute to various additional projects as and when they arise.
Financial Administration?

• Accounts payable process.
• Setting up and maintaining supplier records in Forum/QAD
• Entering supplier invoices via readsoft (Kofax) to Basware for management approval
• Initiating payment runs as and when required.
• Setting up direct debits for monthly invoices and maintaining direct debit records
• Liaising with suppliers on Invoice queries
• Covering Finance Manager tasks when and as required.
• Accounts Payable Tasks, review Expense Reports from Employees and prepare reports detailing VAT amounts

Financial Analysis

• Look to learn and interpret financial data to identify deviations from trends and anomalies
• Produce and create monthly management reporting
• Dive into figures to understand the 'why’?

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the accuracy of posting incoming customer payments (cheques, credit card, and EFT’s) into debtor’s accounts daily.
• Check customer on credit hold and release orders as needed
• Posting of reminders to customers monthly and follow-up
• Review customer’s credit limit periodically to make sure the limit setup is appropriate.
• Constant liaison with Customer Service informing them of credit limit movements.
• Update Customer records on QAD after being notified by customer via email/post (NHS trusts merging into new Trust/Customer moves).
• Sending monthly statements to customers.

Transformation

• As you learn and understand current processes you should look to challenge and always look at ways to improve and optimize.
• Help to seek out automation opportunities and investigate how AI can improve the processes used today.
• Research, propose and implement tools which can help make us more efficient.

Additional information
Within the role you will have significant senior leadership exposure, including the UK managing director, so to support you the Manager of Customer Experience will be an in-office mentor to provide you with the support required to become a confident member of the team.
In addition, we will teach you how to perform CPR and basic first aid and give you a chance to learn about the products we manufacture and sell to help improve patient outcomes. We want you to become fully aligned with our mission.

• Salary - £25,000
• Up to £2,500 (10%) bonus
• Very competitive Company Pension with 10% contribution (4 mths service)
• Private healthcare (6mths service)
• Private Dental (6mths service)
• IT equipment and home office requirements provided
• Employee assistance programme including GP and Mental Health support (ELAS)
• Annual gym contribution (evidence of use required)
• Health and wellbeing contribution - up to £240 per year to be put towards tools to help you lead a healthy life, New trainers, fitness trackers, sports equipment etc.
• Free Fruit, Tea, Coffee and Fizzy Drinks when in the office
• Flexible working - You will be expected to work a minimum of 2 days per week from the office to ensure great team collaboration however where you work the remainder of the week is your choice

You will have:

• A BA/BSc with honours and an interest in our mission.
• The ability to be articulate (written or oral), and comfortable presenting. Strong attention to detail and numerate.
• High level of accuracy is essential. Proficient in Powerpoint, Excel, Word and Outlook. Salesforce knowledge is a benefit but not a prerequisite. ?
• The capacity to manage and prioritise tasks to meet (often tight) deadlines ?
• The ability to be highly organised and capable of managing upwards and with 3rd parties (NHS trusts, outsourced team members, Clients)
• A collaborative, positive 'can-do’ mindset ?