Accounts Assistant

NFP Corp; Bromsgrove; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

NFP is hiring an Accounts Assistant to support our growing Finance team in Bromsgrove. The role focuses on managing commissions, processing bank transactions, and overseeing invoice activity across the UK Holdings group.

You’ll work closely with the Sales Ledger Finance Manager and the wider finance team. We’re looking for someone with strong attention to detail, good communication skills, and experience in accounting in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication across colleagues and external clients via email, phone or in person.
• Strong stakeholder management to keep objectives on track and manage expectations.
• Proactive approach with speed and accuracy, staying busy without errors.
• Excellent attention to detail, spotting discrepancies between numerical data and written records.
• Accounting experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Workday is preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage incoming commissions with the sales ledger function for various business lines to ensure timely and accurate recording.
• Process commission-related bank transactions and perform bank reconciliations.
• Oversee invoicing and ensure sales invoices are raised for relevant entities.
• Support annual budgeting and reforecasting processes with the broader finance team.
• Assist with audit requests and month-end reporting as required.
• Support group transformation efforts to streamline finance processes.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Proactive

Attention to detail

Accounting experience

Workday familiarity

Tools

Workday

Job description

We’re hiring for an Accounts Assistant to support our growing Finance team in Bromsgrove!

To keep up with our growth in the UK and Ireland, we're looking for a dedicated Accounts Assistant to support the Sales Ledger Finance Manager in managing incoming revenue, maintaining accurate financial records, and completing key accounting activities across the NFP UK Holdings group of companies.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Good communication to communicate effectively across the business with colleagues and with external clients via e-mail, phone or face to face
• Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to build effective relationships with external partners and ensure the timely delivery of objectives whilst managing the expectations of stakeholders regarding delivery timescales.
• A pro-activeness, who works at a fast pace but doesn’t sacrifice attention to detail and enjoys being busy
• Excellent attention to detail, ensuring that work is checked thoroughly and picks up on small errors. Able to compare numerical and written information and spot patterns and/or discrepancies.
• Accounting experience in a fast-paced working environment
• Experience with Workday preferred but not crucial

Using these skills, you’ll be:

• Managing incoming commissions by supporting the wider team, to ensure all incoming commissions for the business lines (Employee Benefits, Wealth, HR advisory) are recorded accurately and in a timely fashion.
• Processing commission related bank transactions and ensuring bank reconciles.
• Overseeing invoices, ensuring sales invoices are raised and issued as required for the relevant business entities.
• Working with the broader finance group to help build the annual budgets and reforecast as required throughout the year.
• Assisting the group in the completion of audit requests as and when required
• Supporting the wider finance team in the preparation of month end reporting documents as required
• Assisting with transformation activity across the group in order to improve and streamline finance processes
• Aiding with ad-hoc finance projects as required.
• Chasing commission revenue not received as encouraged in a timely manner

We’re committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let our Talent Team know – we’ll do our best to support you. Please email [e-mail] for more on this.

Who is NFP?

With over 600 people in the UK and Ireland and over 8,000 employees worldwide, NFP is part of the Aon group and specialise in helping businesses in four core areas:

• Insurance (helping them manage key risks)
• Health and safety (supporting them to create a safer workplace for their employees)
• Employee benefits (helping them reward their people more effectively)
• HR, people and talent (supporting employers and their people to thrive through changes and challenges)

What you’ll love about working here

• working in a multifaceted, fast-paced organisation in an exciting industry
• the opportunity to do globally impactful work from day one
• learning from industry and business line specialists with decades of experience
• a huge variety of projects to work on and challenges to tackle
• our People First culture, which illustrates our dedication to your wellbeing and development, not just as an employee but as a human being
• a rich suite of employee benefits and out-of-work perks

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