Title: Finance Assistant – Full time
Agency: McCann London, Management Accounts
Act as a support to the Management Accountants by completing daily and monthly tasks for the areas of Month-end reporting, Balance Sheet reconciliations, Accounts Payable processes, and Travel & Expenses. This is a great opportunity for an individual with 1 years’ Management Accounts experience looking for a role that will provide learning opportunities and to qualify in their chosen accounting qualification.
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparation and posting of monthly prepayment and accrual journals
- Assist the team with various month-end tasks including submitting Hyperion schedules, cost allocations and provision journals
- Preparation of monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations with adequate support and commentary for review
- Provide monthly commentary on Accounts Payable aged balances and work with Shared Services and vendors to resolve outstanding items
- Preparation of monthly Budget statements and sending them out to budget holders
- Be the go-to person for job number creation and maintain our internal management job sheet for all agencies
- Provide assistance with invoice and Purchase Orders to other teams as required to ensure a smooth and timely process
- Provide support with the freelance process, including coding and processing of invoices and freelancers set up in our system
- Preparation and submission of National Statistics surveys
- Provide support with T&E approvals, assisting employees with queries and cash advances
- Be a problem solver and raise any issues/concerns with the Management Accountants with the view to find appropriate solutions
- Ensure accurate data entry for all transactions across all our Finance platforms
- Ad-hoc data queries and support to the Management Accountants as required
Ideal candidate:
- Good Excel and communication skills
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills
- Proactive individual who can work under time pressure
- Able to work as a team as well as independently with a can-do attitude
- Experience of invoices/PO/expenses systems
- Must have good understanding of accounting double entries