Accounts Payable /Treasury Assistant

Accounts Payable / Treasury Assistant

Location: Romford
Salary: up to £30,000 per annum
Hours: Monday - Friday. 37.5 working hours per week

Benefits:

* Holidays: 25 days, Increases with service to 28 days.
* Additional leave of up to 10 days in the anniversary for long service milestones.
* Pension: Group personal pension, company contribution of 4%.
* Life Cover: 3 x your salary in the event of your death to your nominated beneficiary.
* Occupational maternity pay plus SMP.
* Accident Cover: Disability compensation Payment.
* BUPA cash plan: Individual Cover or Family. Employee has the option to increase the benefit.
* Employee Star Award.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Free lunches every day.
* Annual company BBQ.
* Annual flu vaccination.

We are recruiting on behalf of our client, a leading FMCG food manufacturing company, for an Accounts Payable/Treasury Assistant.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the day to day banking management, petty cash processing, UK and foreign payments, import payments, employee expenses, accounts payable and various month end tasks / reporting.

The person employed in this role has to have the utmost integrity, and a very clear eye for detail. This is a responsible position, where deadlines can often be key, so the successful applicant needs to be comfortable with handling a busy role, whilst ensuring accuracy.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing and processing Petty Cash
• Processing Foreign Payments
• Booking Currency Contracts
• Manual Cheques
• UK CHAPS / Other manual payments
• Daily and monthly reconciliation of bank financing facility
• Reconciliation of Inter Company Financing Accounts
• Monthly bank Reconciliations / revaluations
• Processing of DD invoices
• Daily posting of cash entries to a strict timeline
• Month end reporting and analysis of bank charges
• Processing of Employee Expenses and Credit Cards
• Perform part of the management accounts close
• Month end reporting
• Prepare and update cashflow
• Assist Accounts Payable
• Other adhoc tasks as required

About You

This role is for a keen and diligent person looking for a career in Finance. Appropriate training will be given but it is preferable that candidates will have both Accounts Payable and Cashiering experience. The person however must show a willingness to learn, be flexible and a desire to study would be preferable.

You will be expected to have good MS Office skills, be generally IT literate, and have experience of using a major accounting package, or IT system. This is a responsible role within the Finance team, and candidates should have proven experience of working in a Finance department in similar roles and must be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the above responsibilities.

AAT / ACCA / CIMA studier preferred.