Financial Accounts Assistant (Maternity Cover) recruitment
Overview
LCH.Clearnet is the leading independent clearing house group, based in London and Paris, serving major international exchanges and platforms, as well as a range of OTC markets. It clears a broad range of asset classes including: securities, exchange traded derivatives, commodities, energy, freight, foreign exchange, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps and euro and sterling denominated bonds and repos; and works closely with market participants and exchanges to identify and develop clearing services for new asset classes. Working within the London Finance department this role focuses on ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the general ledger for LCH.Clearnet Ltd, the UK operating company of the Group. Sun accounts (v 4.3) is used as the company's ledger system.
Responsibilities
• Generation of month-end clearing fee invoices through the Group Fees system and posting of accounting files to the Sun general ledger
• Reconciliation of levies collected on behalf of third parties ready for payment on to exchanges
• Generation of intra-month invoices through Group Fees for telecoms, settlement and other recharges
• Raising of manual sales invoices as requested by other departments for ad-hoc services
• Posting of monthly UK payroll to Sun, and reconciliation to the ADP file. Also reconciliation and payment of pension transfer, PAYE and NI
• Posting of fortnightly NY payroll to Sun based on payroll file provided by HR
• Posting non-treasury bank transactions to Sun
• Central finance contact point for the NY branch to ensure payment of invoices (via wire transfer) and the NY account remains fully funded
• Posting of foreign supplier payments into Sun
• Processing of intercompany charges and invoices and monthly reconciliations
• Some ad-hoc BACS payments as requested and as cover for the Accounts Payable team
• Central contact point for Amex for staff with corporate cards
Required skills and experience
Experience of work in a similar role
Knowledge of Sun accounts an advantage
Proficient use of Microsoft Office
Well organised and able to multi-task
Additional Job Board Text
LCH.Clearnet is the leading independent clearing house group, based in London and Paris, serving major international exchanges and platforms, as well as a range of OTC markets. It clears a broad range of asset classes including: securities, exchange traded derivatives, commodities, energy, freight, foreign exchange, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps and euro and sterling denominated bonds and repos; and works closely with market participants and exchanges to identify and develop clearing services for new asset classes.