The Role: Finance Specialist
Contract: Perm
Salary: £27,000 – £34,000
Location: Cardiff, Wales (Hybrid)
Start date: ASAP
Our client is a leading business service provider to public and private sector organisations throughout the UK. We pride ourselves in revolutionising our client’s operations using our expertise and innovative solutions across a wide range of services, including Revenues & Benefits, Finance and Accounting, HR & Payroll and Customer Services. Our aim is to work in partnership with our clients to assist them in becoming more efficient; leveraging our best in class business process outsourcing and operational transformation expertise.
The role would place you at the core of our operation, being responsible for multi-service lines which include client liaison providing a high level of technical expertise and will be one of a specialist team that supports service delivery within the Cardiff operation. Our client’s excellence in execution brings pace, innovation and rigour to deliver sustainable outcomes to our clients; whilst process excellence is at the core of this role, the successful candidates will have a high degree of accuracy, numeracy, flexibility, good teamwork and effective time management skills together with good Microsoft Excel skills.
Responsibilities:
- Completion of job-specific Finance Specialist activities in accordance with client requirements and SLAs which may comprise complex financial transaction processing, proactive management of reconciliations and exception transactions, receipting and payment management, specialist finance administration duties, authorisation of transactions to ensure appropriate control and segregation of duties and internal audit responsibilities.
- Develop and maintain a detailed knowledge of the end to end processes under their area of responsibility. The Finance Specialist must ensure that this knowledge is applied and utilised to manage business processes and identify areas of risk which need to be remediated or escalated, applying the appropriate discretion to prioritise accordingly.
- Production of high-quality MI for internal and external recipients together with the production of intelligent and coherent business documents as required.
Requirements:
- Educated to advanced secondary level or previous relevant experience.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in accountancy/double-entry bookkeeping are essential. Where appropriate supported by a professional qualification or membership to a professional body.
- Previous experience in a similar role is essential.
- Ideally, candidates will hold either a full or part accountancy qualification