Accounts Assistant

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

Job summary

NFP, part of the Aon group, is hiring an Accounts Assistant to support the Finance team in Bromsgrove. You’ll help manage incoming revenue, maintain accurate records, and handle key accounting activities across the UK holdings.

The role emphasizes strong communication, stakeholder management, and attention to detail, with exposure to Workday; you’ll collaborate with the Sales Ledger Manager and wider finance group to ensure timely accounting and month-end tasks.

Qualifications

• Good communication across the business with colleagues and external clients via email, phone or face to face.
• Strong stakeholder management to build relationships and meet delivery timescales.
• Proactive, fast-paced, detail-oriented and able to stay busy.
• Excellent attention to detail; able to spot patterns or discrepancies in numbers.
• Accounting experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Workday preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Managing incoming commissions by supporting the wider team, ensuring commissions are recorded accurately and timely.
• Processing commission-related bank transactions and ensuring bank reconciles.
• Overseeing invoices; ensuring sales invoices are raised and issued for relevant entities.
• Working with the broader finance group to build annual budgets and reforecast during the year.
• Assisting the group in completion of audit requests as required.
• Supporting month-end reporting documents.
• Assisting with transformation activity to improve finance processes.
• Aiding with ad-hoc finance projects as required.
• Chasing commission revenue not received in a timely manner.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Proactivity

Attention to detail

Accounting experience

Workday

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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