Overview
BNS is seeking a detail-oriented and organised Service Charge Accounts Year End Assistant to support our finance team. This role offers an excellent opportunity for individuals with accounting experience and strong computer skills to contribute to the accurate processing of service charge accounts along with the presentation to internal teams and clients.
The successful candidate will play a vital part in ensuring the smooth completion of year-end procedures alongside other service charge accounting provisions that improve the service delivery to the clients whilst supporting the Service Charge Accounts team.
The role will be mainly focused on the production and completion of Service Charge Year End Accounts.
The successful candidate should have a minimum of AAT level 3 qualification.
Duties will include:
- Yearend account preparation whilst liaising with external accounts teams.
- Assist bank reconciliation of accounts in a cyclical fashion
- Utility Account reconciliation and management
- Assist in the credit control of client’s service charge monies.
- Assist in taking and reconciling credit card payments through designated portal.
- Distribution of incoming mail
- Logging, coding and entry of incoming purchases invoices
- Assisting in the collation of weekly payment runs
- Assisting in the reconciliation of supplier statements
- Maintaining orderly filing systems
- Shared responsibility for answering incoming phone calls
- Monitor accounts email inbox.
- Electronically file all invoices after processing.
- Ensure that all Purchase Ledger activity is timely, up to date and accurate. Raise any issues with the Service Charge Accounts Manager.
- Liaise closely with the wider business including the client relationship team, compliance team and corporate accounts team.
Responsibilities:
- Focus and attention to be applied to the Service Charge Accounts production.
- Enter purchase invoices and obtain relevant authorisation signatures
- Additional Finance Support Duties
- Monthly financial reporting and journal posting
- Administration, office support and ad-hoc reporting as required
- Communicate with suppliers over phone & via email
- Posting supplier invoices and responding to supplier and other queries in the accounts inbox
- Reviewing aged creditor reports, allocating payments and preparing weekly/monthly payments to suppliers
- Supplier statement reconciliations
- Raising invoices to corporate customers and chasing payments via the credit control process and policy.
- Monthly reporting and assistance in the delivery of the internal monthly financial reports.
- Continuously review and improve all processes and working practices to ensure efficiency and effectiveness, and improved customer (internal and external) experience.
- Bank reconciliations and inputting of payments
Job Type: Full-time
How to apply:
Please send your CV and cover letter to hr@bns.co.uk
