Finance Assistant
England, West Midlands, Coventry - £10 - £11.00 per hour

Posted: 17/02/17

Description:
An experienced Finance Assistant is required on a 3 month temporary contract to support a busy Project Accountant.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

* To undertake a wide range of finance tasks to support the delivery of a full financial planning and reporting service to a range of departments.
* Prepare first draft monthly management accounts reports (actual v budget and actual v forecast) for Professional Services management, for review by the Accountant.
* To provide a responsive service to day to day Finance queries from colleagues, investigating and resolving issues in a timely manner. Provide training/coaching on relevant Finance issues to colleagues as required.
* Monitor staff salary accounts and report any variances to budget with analysis of the reasons for the variances to the Accountant. Support the staff recruitment process by reviewing all requests from Professional Service colleagues to fill vacant posts, providing the Accountant with the necessary information to support or not support the request.
* Assist the Accountant in preparing timely, complete and accurate financial management information using required level of IT skills.
* Maintenance of General ledger accounts, including requesting budget virements, raising and posting journal requests, coding queries, budget profiling, transactional coding, and balance sheet reconciliations.
* To build up a good understanding of financial accounting and management accounting processes and Services requirements to be able to contribute to the accuracy of Services accounting and the compliance with University accounting policies and procedures.
* Ensure all year-end tasks allocated by the Accountant are completed in a timely and accurate manner in accordance with the year-end timetable.
* Assisting with the production of estimates, revised estimates and forecasts to strict deadlines in accordance with best practice.
* Perform ad-hoc finance tasks as required to provide an efficient support to the process of financial planning and reporting
* And such other duties as are within the scope and spirit of the job purpose, the title of the post and grading