Finance Assistant

City Building Engineering Services (CBES); Glasgow; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in engineering services is seeking an Administrator for their finance department. This role focuses on income administration, including sales ledgers and reconciliations, requiring strong attention to detail and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will contribute to a dynamic team, ensuring timely reporting and compliance with financial goals. Opportunity for career growth within finance is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Experience in a finance department with sales ledger responsibilities.
• Strong desire for a finance career.
• High accuracy and detail orientation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate administration of income, including sales ledger reconciliations.
• Prepare month end accounts and manage balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support senior accountants and maintain accurate records.

Skills

Sales ledger experience

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Team player

Attention to detail

IT skills

Ability to meet deadlines

Education

Accountancy qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job Purpose

This role will ensure the effective and efficient administration of all income due, working closely with key stakeholders to ensure debts are minimised and that income is allocated timely and accurately.

Assist in the preparation of month end accounts to deadlines. The main focus of the role is in ensuring costs are input and are coded correctly to enable management and customer accounts to be produced by required deadlines.

The role also involves working on balance sheet reconciliations and liaising with other departments to obtain information.

Key Accountabilities

• Representing the company in a professional and competent manner at all times and develop strong working relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Production of sales reports and sales ledger reconciliations
• Sales ledger receipts postings (Online, Bacs and Cash)
• Raising sales invoices and credit notes
• Reconciliation of ledger and bank statements
• Liaise with customers where necessary to ensure correct receipt allocations
• Process employee expenses.
• Prepare all Debtor information for Group Auditors and ensure no unresolved audit concerns
• Vehicle administration including parking, tolls and tags.
• Company Mastercard reconciliations and postings.
• Provide support to the assistant management accountant, management accountant and senior management accountant to ensure department deadlines and targets are met
• Responsible for coding and posting journals, Posting and reconciling accruals & prepayments
• Liaising with other departments to gather information for month end journals
• Reconciling balance sheet accounts and flagging up issues
• Working through WIP accounts to ensure costs are billed out when works are complete
• Producing reports as required by management accounts team and operations team
• Maintaining schedules of employee related information to enable costs to be correctly coded (E.g mobile phones & IPADs)
• To comply with any other reasonable task or request as directed by senior management
• Willingness to develop the role.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Experience of working in a finance department with sales ledger experience essential. A demonstrable desire to pursue a career in finance is required.
• Accountancy qualification preferred but not essential.
• Ability to work accurately, without supervision, and to deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good communicator.
• Strong team player.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel