Financial Assistant

Change Recruitment; Scotland; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Change Recruitment seeks a Finance Assistant for a public sector client in Glasgow. The role involves payment allocation, reconciliations, and resolving discrepancies within a supportive finance team. A proactive attitude and strong Excel skills are essential, alongside opportunities for long-term development.

Benefits

Overtime

Excellent Holiday Allowance

Qualifications

• Core finance skills relevant to payment allocation and reconciliations.
• Experience in investigating discrepancies and strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to use Excel for data manipulation.

Responsibilities

• Accurate allocation of payments to customer accounts.
• Performing reconciliations including bank and supplier statements.
• Investigating discrepancies and preparing payments.

Skills

Communication

Proactivity

Excel

Job description

Change Accountancy and Finance are delighted to be supporting our public sector client in the recruitment of a Finance Assistant. Based in the heart of Glasgow, the role will be joining a busy finance team with responsibility for the allocation of payments and interacting with a range of internal and external parties to resolve queries and issues.

Key for the role is a proactive attitude and willingness to get your hands on with queries, as well as a base understanding of payables, receivables and reconciliations. Working as part of a wider team, you will be given support to learn the role and develop your relationships. Duties will cover the following;

• Working with wider finance to ensure the accurate allocation of payments to customer accounts
• Performing a range of reconciliations including; bank reconciliations, supplier statements and wider finance data
• Investigating discrepancies and proactively looking to resolve these
• Preparing and processing payments
• Review of customer data to complete aged debtors information, working with stakeholders to resolve this
• Confident using excel to filter, sort, search and manipulate data as required
• Strong interpersonal skills and a proactivity to engage with others to resolve questions

Applicants for the role will have a core set of finance skills covering the above, experience allocating payments is key and the investigation of discrepancies. The role will be part of a busy finance team with other duties coming up to support in. Longer term development potential is a real opportunity with a supportive team.

Salary: £25,000 + Overtime and Excellent Holiday Allowance

Hybrid Pattern: 2 days in office