Finance Administrator

Posted Today by Venesky Brown Recruitment Ltd
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£12.46 per hour
Glasgow , Lanarkshire
Temporary, full-time
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Posted by Venesky Brown Recruitment Ltd
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Finance Administrator for a 6 month contract on a rate of £12.46/hour PAYE. This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office with Monday and Thursday being fixed office days.

Responsibilities:

- Manage the Catering & Events mailbox, applying sound judgement and experience to resolve queries largely independently, providing clear advice and escalating appropriately when required ensuring effective service delivery.
- Manage the purchase order process, ensuring compliance with procurement requirements and internal processes.
- Prepare daily and weekly sales reporting for Catering & Events.
- Prepare and post daily income journals for Catering & Events.
- Reconcile payments for external Catering, Events and Accommodation.
- Process top-ups on departmental catering cards.
- Manage the VAT coding of products, ensuring that the correct VAT codes are used for all sales and purchases.
- Assist in updating VAT codes as required on the stock management system.
- Manage Catering & Events supplier queries relating to payment issues, ensuring these are resolved promptly and any relevant parties are notified.  
- Responsible for supplier statement reconciliations, including resolution of reconciling items in a timely manner, ensuring that any more complex issues are communicated to the relevant parties.
- Responsible for preparing monthly cash reconciliations.
- Responsible for management of service and rental contracts, including the raising of relevant PO’s and monthly goods receipting.
- Support the Finance Assistant to ensure month end duties are delivered.
- Challenge the status quo associated with current processes and work with the management to identify opportunities for process improvement and/or improved control.
- Support management in the delivery of analysis to support recommendations to reduce / mitigate risk.
- Support the Commercial Service accounting team on any Projects.
- Assist with administrative tasks across the Finance team
- Contribute to project work that will drive forward strategic benefits for the organisation and use financial data to validate proposals.
- With a high volume of workload, the role holder requires to be able to effectively plan, multitask, whilst being able to deliver against specified timescales, especially around all associated Month End deliverables.
- Ability to balance competing workload priorities, often at short notice with requests from both internal & external customers.
- Ability to prioritise own workload.
- The role holder must use their own initiative in the resolution of difficulties with both internal and external customers and escalate issues as and when required.
- Conduct straightforward analysis of basic data and reports collated, supporting the Finance Assistant to provide feedback and recommendations to management.

Essential Skills:

- Ability to demonstrate the competencies required to undertake the duties associated with this level of post having acquired the necessary knowledge and skills in a similar role. Or: Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 5 or 6 (National 5 or 6, Scottish Vocational Qualification level 2 or 3, or equivalent, and experience of personal development in a similar role.
- Knowledge of financial and accounting procedures (particularly accounts payable).
- Strong organisational, time management and prioritising skills, with the ability to multi-task and deliver high quality work within tight deadlines.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, clarifying requirements and responding appropriately.
- High level of attention to detail.
- Excellent Team Player.
- Flexible in approach, with the ability to react in a constantly changing and learning environment.
- Recent relevant experience working in a complex and fast paced environment.
- Experience of using computerised finance systems.
- Extensive experience in using MS Office, minimum of Intermediate level within Excel.

Desirable Skills:

- Experience in the use of Agresso Financials and Saffron Stock System.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.

Reference: 53143224

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