Financial Staff Accountant

Company Description

. Established in 1997, we are part of the Robert Walters Group – a world-leading specialist professional recruitment consultancy.

As part of the Robert Walters Group, our business has considerable resources at its disposal. With a truly global footprint of 53 offices across 24 countries, we’re able to work in close partnership with organisations and manage everything from global accounts with demanding resourcing strategies to single sites with lower recruitment volumes

Job Description

To provide financial administration and reporting requirements for our client and vendors.

Financial Administration:  

► Reconcile supplier invoices to invoice reconciliation system, ensuring VAT and NI are correctly charged, ensuring all invoices comply with client billing requirements

► Reject incorrect invoices and return to agency for amendment detailing the reasons for rejection

► Run weekly and monthly accruals report and create weekly and monthly bills for all agency temps and ensure that they comply with the clients’ requirements

► Check weekly and monthly timesheet and expense reports 

► Run monthly retention payments and timesheet reports to ensure that the temps’ retention payment are correct and are paid for the correct period

► Ensuring all expenses are claimed in the correct way

► Assist Resource Solutions and Robert Walters billing and credit control teams to ensure that invoices are paid on time and any outstanding payments are chased

► Deal with queries from line managers, temps and agencies including payroll, rate and timesheet queries

► Checking statements from agencies and chasing overdue invoices when necessary

► Send weekly reports to agencies updating them as to which invoices have been processed

Qualifications

• High Volume Transaction experience
• High Degree of Accuracy
• Accounting or Finance degree preferable

• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office Skills especially Intermediate Excel (Pivot Tables, V-Lookup, Formulas)
• Proven Invoice processing and systems knowledge with strong attention to detail
• Understanding recruitment processes (preferable)
• Problem solving ability and the ability to work to multiple deadlines
• High level of professionalism in oral, written and email communication
• Ideally strong administrative experience from a corporate environment, with an analytical element and strong attention to detail

Additional Information

To offer a candidate concierge service to support the Recruiters in the end-to-end recruitment process.