Job Title: Accounting Officer

Salary: £21,000 – £22,000

Location: Solihull

Hours: 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.00pm (one hour for lunch) Hybrid working is available.

Description:

Due to expansion our client, a well-respected and long-established financial services company based in Solihull is recruiting an experienced Accounting Officer to join their busy team.

As an Accounting Officer you will be part a large Financial Accounting team, which is responsible for accounting for all companies and for making most of the payments to borrowers, introducers and suppliers.

You will have a busy and varied workload and will be expected to develop good working relationships with other departments and external parties including auditors.

Key Duties:

• Processing invoices from suppliers, and ensuring these are promptly approved by Cost Centres
• Maintaining purchase ledger
• Dealing with enquiries from suppliers and internal customers
• Ensuring that only valid payments are made
• Producing cheques, both for purchase ledger and for other departments
• Maintaining and reconciling bank accounts
• Making payments by BACS, TT, Standing Order or Direct Debit
• Providing information to Treasury to enable them to manage the cash position
• As well as performing the administration tasks necessary to support these activities

Key Skills/Experience Required:

• Prior experience of working within a financial environment or undertaking a finance-based study course
• Strong numeracy skills and the ability to analyse large volumes of data
• Effective communication skills for face to face, telephone and written communication
• Strong IT skills, particularly with spreadsheets
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines, whilst maintaining high levels of accuracy
• An inquisitive mind and the confidence to ask questions to develop knowledge and understanding
• Flexible working approach and the ability to commit to extended hours if required to at short notice
• Grade C or above GCSE (or equivalent) in English and Mathematics
• Ideally AAT qualified, or qualified through prior experience of working on a purchase ledger team
• Experience of using accounting software including Coda Financials would be desirable and previous financial services experience preferred

In return for your hard work, you will earn a starting salary of £21,000 – £22,000 and excellent benefits.

Morgan Parkes Recruitment Ltd operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently eligible to live and work in the UK. We operate a strict equal opportunities policy.

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