Finance Assistant

QCS Staffing Ltd; Dacorum; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading staffing consultancy in the United Kingdom is seeking a Pay and Bill Assistant. This role involves ensuring accurate contractor payments and timely processing of invoices. The successful candidate will have proven finance experience, advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, and excellent organizational capabilities. Our company offers a competitive salary, hybrid working options, and outstanding benefits including training programs and cash incentives for quality performance.

Benefits

Award-winning training and development programmes

Clear promotional criteria

Highly competitive salary

Early finish Fridays

Healthcare cash plan

Social events

Qualifications

• Proven work experience in a finance team of a small/medium sized company.
• Experience in a multi-currency organization is an advantage.
• Strong attention to detail with high accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Calculate contractor invoices efficiently and accurately.
• Ensure timely issuance of sales invoices.
• Process contractor timesheets and payments punctually.

Skills

Finance experience

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Workload management

Job description

Pay and Bill Assistant - Berkhamsted - Excellent benefits - permanent

We have an amazing opportunity for a Finance assistant to join our Team!

What do we do??

We unite people with life changing industries through sourcing skilled professionals for the world's biggest life sciences, renewable energy, and data centre industries - creating long-lasting relationships along the way!

We focus on your career development and promotions, whilst ensuring that you love what you do as much as we do.

Why work for QCS Staffing

QCS Staffing is a successful international staffing consultancy, established in 1992. With over 33 years of proven success, QCS Staffing stands as one of the largest privately owned specialist recruitment consultancies, delivering expert talent solutions across three of the world’s fastest-growing sectors. The company provides specialist Contract and Permanent staffing services to clients within very specific industry sectors across the EMEA, Americas, and APAC regions. We employ +141 staff across 5 offices:

• Headquarters based in Berkhamsted, UK
• North Carolina, USA
• Boston, USA
• Dublin, Ireland
• Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Some of our amazing benefits include:

• Award-winning training and development programmes (we invest in YOU)
• Clear promotional criteria set from day one
• Hybrid working
• Highly competitive salary
• Early finish and cash prize incentives (we reward your hard work!)
• Healthcare cash plan, Private Healthcare & Pension plan
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Paid parking
• Early finish Fridays
• Socials galore: BBQs, team meals, multiple charity events, Directors lunches

Key Objectives

• To calculate contractor invoices with speed, accuracy and efficiency.
• To ensure that sales invoices are issued on a monthly/adhoc basis in a timely manner.
• To assist in the preparation of monthly contractor accruals and deferred income journals and ensure that any expenses have been recharged.
• Payment of contractors to ensure that payments are made punctually and accurately.
• To be able to communicate in an efficient yet friendly manner with all stakeholders of the business, internal and external.
• To deal with all Contractor and Billing queries in a timely manner

Main Duties:

• Process contractor timesheets, ensuring that payments are made punctually and accurately
• Liaise with internal staff, clients, and contractors directly to resolve timesheet queries efficiently and effectively
• Ensure that sales invoices are issued on a monthly / adhoc basis in a timely manner
• Report to Pay & Bill Supervisor any outstanding issues and highlight any potential debtor problems
• Validate placement records on sales system
• Ensure contractor bank details are validated and updated on payroll systems
• Maintain and update PO numbers on the payroll system

Skills & Attributes

• Must have proven work experience in a finance team of a small / medium sized company
• Experience of working within a multi-currency organisation would be an advantage
• Good IT skills and confident in using Microsoft Excel at an advanced level
• Strong attention to detail and produce work to a high level of accuracy
• Good organisational and workload management skills, specifically with the ability to reprioritise when necessary
• Be able to manage a high-volume workload to set timescales

We look forward to hearing from you!