Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant | Hybrid | Fixed Term up to 8mths | up to £28,000

The Company

My client is in the professional services sector

Key skills & experience

Essential requirements and skills:

• Attention to detail, and work to strict deadlines are also a must.

Specific duties include:

• TM (disbursements) mailbox management within SLAs – Meeting SLA requirements of all emails acknowledged within 1hr offering then an expected time of full reply.
• Prompt invoice processing for TM disbursements
• Prompt processing through use of Corpay, for any applicable TM disbursements.
• Payment run set up for disbursement related suppliers.
• Prompt payment posting into Practice Management System.
• TM Disbursements supplier statement reconciliations
• SharePoint reconciliations alongside investigating status 7 – AP to check
• Dealing with all TM (disbursements) queries
• Write off process, including reviews/ approvals/ investigation and payments
• Daily paid/ unpaid disbursements reports checking
• Daily TM reports to the FE/partners
• Supporting with annual audit
• Supporting and assisting the Financial Controller as required on ad-hoc projects
• Contributing to the writing of firm policies to remain compliant with current SARs.
• Absence cover for the rest of the Business and Client Accounting team as required

Supporting AP/ Cashiering teams on Rota tasks at times when covering for absences:

• AP mailboxes management within SLAs – only disbursements, not firm cost
• Prompt invoices processing within SLA’s (IPO’s & experts) - only disbursements, not firm cost
• Final Review of invoices approved in approval system within SLA’s
• Export invoices from approval system and import into Practice Management System
• Payment run set up for suppliers and expenses reimbursement
• Payment run checking (where prepared by others)
• Prompt payment posting into Practice Management System
• Checking of cash receipts allocations
• Client/ office account payments checking
• Counsel fees payments
• Bank account reconciliations
• Supplier statement reconciliations - expert

For further information, please contact Rhian Mountjoy 

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