Job Description

• Ensure that team meet all KPI's and SLA's whilst monitoring the integrity of transactions
• Responsible for reconciliation and analysis of key bank accounts
• Key point of contact for internal and external parties
• Audit and Bank Relationship Manager contact and coordinator
• Creation, posting and approval of key banking journals
• Day-to-day cash management and monthly cash forecasting
• Banking month end; work with other units/teams to ensure that all necessary adjustments & journals are processed before finance system closedown
• Escalation point for banking queries
• Open and close bank accounts, maintenance of banking services and maintenance of bank signatories
• Responsible for production of monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
• Monitoring transactional integrity; detect and prevent payment and invoice errors
• Input and approve payments; Cheques, Bankline and BACS

Training and Qualifications

• Have a formal accountancy or banking qualification or be committed to working towards one with sponsorship
• Proven effective communication and relationship management skills in the workplace
• Highly organised self-starter who works confidently with financial data and can effectively monitor outputs against plans
• Basic MS Excel e.g. SUM; SORT; data filters, fixed references and basic graphs
• A basic understanding of how the banking function operates and how it aligns to the AR and AP functions
• Intermediate MS Excel e.g. VLOOKUP; Pivot Tables; text functions

 

• Practical understanding of double entry book-keeping and journal entry
• How day-to-day cash management impacts on an organisation and supports strategic objectives
• An appreciation of risk and controls and how they contribute in the preparation of financial accounts

 

• Experience in producing Financial Analysis and Reporting e.g. KPI's relating to the banking function
• Experience of being accountable for a key finance task or other similar task that demonstrates sound transactional banking experience
• Able to provide practical examples of experience in improving processes and what impact they had

 

 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven effective communication and relationship management skills in the workplace • Highly organised self-starter who works confidently with financial data and can effectively monitor outputs against plans • Basic MS Excel e.g. SUM; SORT; data filters, fixed references and basic graphs