Westway Trust is looking to appoint a dynamic and proactive Finance Officer who will maintain the sales purchase and cash ledgers (banks and petty cash) of the Westway Trust finance system, working within a friendly, busy finance department.
You will be a motivated individual with a minimum of two years’ experience working in a busy accounts department, with good organisational and administrative skills. You will also have a high standard of numeracy and will be proficient in using MS Office packages, especially Excel.
Key responsibilities of the role include but not limited to:
Receive and record suppliers’ invoices, reconcile suppliers’ statements to the purchase ledger and be the first point of contact with suppliers.
Sales ledger Credit control and keeping debtors list up to date.
Setup new Suppliers and Debtors.
Monitor invoice status through to authorisation on Focal Point.
Raise fortnightly electronic and manual payments to suppliers.
Reconcile credit card statements.
Posting of all bank and investment statements.
Reconciliation of supplier’s statement and advising of any accruals and prepayments.
Process staff expenses.
Maintain invoice filing and archiving.
Post transactions to the ledgers.
Maintenance of petty cash floats and suspense accounts.
Knowledge and Experience:
2 years’ experience working in a busy accounts department.
Experience of accurate data input or maintaining a computerised accounts system.
Highly computer literate who will be confident to prepare MS Excel based templates and tools to support the annual budget round and quarterly forecasting.
Ability to follow agreed financial procedures including credit control, raising invoices, maintenance of nominal ledger, bank reconciliations and electronic banking.
Knowledge of computerised accounting packages, preferably Access Dimensions and Focal Point is desirable.
AAT study or finalist is desirable.