Finance Assistant - Vertas Group Limited
Friars Bridge Road, Ipswich
Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
3 months placement (potential to extend across wider business)
Hourly Pay rate: £13.00

Job Overview
Opus people solutions on behalf of Vertas is seeking a finance assistant to join the team. You will be reporting to the Transactional Finance Manager; your main purpose is to process invoices in an accurate and timely manner. Assist in ensuring the Ledger close is done correctly and on time. Occasionally provide cover for holiday or illness across all three sections of the team.

Key Relationships:
Transactional Finance Manager
Financial Reporting Manager
Service Heads and Contract Managers
Finance Colleagues

Responsibilities:

Allocate all cash receipts to correct customer / invoice in a timely manner, ensure unallocated cash position is constantly reviewed and kept to an acceptable level
Ensure Accounts Receivable Ledger is maintained, with any queries or unidentified balances investigated and resolved
Working interactively with and provide support to the Finance Banking Analyst to ensure all cash receipts posted to correct customer account
Working interactively with and provide support to the Master Data Assistant to ensure all master data relating to customer accounts are accurate
Working interactively with and provide support to the Credit Control Team to assist with any queries that will enable the effective chasing and collection of debt
Provide reporting and guidance relating to future customer receipts to the Financial Reporting Manager to assist with working capital and cashflow management
Develop relationships with stakeholders across the business, enhancing operations knowledge which will support the improvement of internal finance processes
With support of Financial Reporting Manager, implement a controlled process of change in respect to Master Data

Sales ledger:
To fully understand the Sales ledger Process
To help process Adhoc Billing from the inbox
To assist with the inbox ensuring all emails are responded to with the 5-day turnaround time.

Purchase Ledger:
To fully understand the purchase to payment process
To Process a high volume of Supplier invoices into the system across multiple legal entities
To reconcile supplier statements for all legal entities
To open and scan the post onto the system daily
To maintain the open queries spreadsheets with both internal and external suppliers following up regularly for updates
To assist with processing weekly payment runs in the system
To assist with answering emails in the Accounts Payable inbox

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