Finance Analyst Job in Kingston Upon Thames, Home Counties Uk

As the Finance Analyst the role holder will be delivering the control and reconciliation of the Council's bank accounts and IT systems, ensuring that the position shown in the General Ledger and in the various IT systems for "Personal Accounts" (e.g. Revenues Benefits, Housing Rents, Debtors, etc.) is accurate and complete.

Duties to include:

•To compile the reconciliation of the Council's bank accounts to the personal records and general ledger systems, and ensure that the various systems reconcile to each other.
•To liaise with the Council's bankers regarding tracing of missing payments, follow up of rejected items, and dealing with returned cheques.
•To process cheques received via the postal system, entering these into the cash receipting system and preparing these for banking.
•Maintain and operate procedures to ensure that cash and imprest processes across the Council are controlled and reconciled in accordance with agreed frequencies and procedures
•To assist with co-ordinating the Council's compliance and establishing, publishing, maintaining and disseminating a security policy for payment handling and card data storage
•Investigate transactions which appear on "error/rejection" reports and clear these appropriately.
•Assist in the delivery of required financial performance and management information tools and techniques which appear on "error/rejection" reports and clear these appropriately.

Suitable applicants will have the following:

Proven knowledge of working within a financial services environment
AAT Qualification

Suitable applicants will be:

Efficient
Accurate
Able to demonstrate a commitment to own personal and professional development and to developing and coaching others
Promotes diversity and equality in all aspects of service delivery and people management
Recognises the need to continually learn and adapt.
Willingly shares knowledge and learning with others

Hillman Saunders is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.