Administrator/Accounts Administrator

Administrator / Accounts Administrator

Location: Leicester

Summary

Our client – a successful professional financial services business based in Leicester – is seeking an Administrator / Accounts Administrator to join their team on a full-time permanent basis.

• Process daily Crest cash settlement movements, ensuring all ledgers are updated & bargains accurately settled. A reconciliation to the Crest payment figure will also be undertaken so as to ensure that there is a full settlement sweep,
• Process other daily cash settlement activities, ensuring the client & broker ledger are correctly reflecting any such activities,
• Correctly action the transfer of the net CMR calculation on a daily basis once calculation has been done and confirmed by the Finance and Risk department,
• Bank all cheques into client settlement bank account or any other qualifying ‘client account’, ensuring accurate records are kept of date of receipt and the payee counterparty,
• Manage & keep secure the firms chosen electronic banking systems,
• Prepare & dispatch payments to clients, ensuring that payment and the payee are authentic and comprehensive records are retained of all payments both successful and rejected,
• Produce client cash account statements upon request, checking statements are an accurate reflection of cash transactions relating to the request,
• Action identified differences in the client banking reconciliation in a timely manner, recording action taken & reason why,
• Prepare & dispatch client income payments according to information received by the client facing teams,
• Keep accurate records of unallocated client monies, ensure these are cleared in line with the firm’s policies & procedures,
• Ensure any client money credit on an individual client is cleared within the timeframes set by the firm’s policies in accordance with the client standing details,
• Calculate a daily figure of funds to be transferred to/from the firm for fees & charges, ensure transfers are completed within agreed timeframes,
• Daily calculations of funds held on EUR and/or USD accounts, convert to GBP as required.

The Right Person

• Excellent numeracy skills
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work as a team
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Experience in financial services environment an advantage

Package

• Appointment Type: Permanent
• Salary: £24,000 - £25,000 (subject to experience)
• Hours: Full-Time 9am – 5:30pm (office-based)
• Holiday 20 Days + Bank Holidays 
• Private Health