Clerical Officer - Finance New

Clerical Officer (CO) Finance

This role is a 4-month temporary contract and you will be employed via Cpl.

• Prepare bank reconciliations, monitoring bank balances and processing bank transfers.
• Process creditor payment runs every 15 days in a timely and effective manner.
• Prepare income reconciliations and ensure fee income is recorded accurately and on a timely basis.
• Managing creditors including set-up of new vendors and reconciliation of creditor statements on a monthly basis.
• Prepare tax reconciliations for VAT, PSWT, RCT and Carbon Tax to relevant Bodies
• Management of petty cash requests, cycle to work schemes and commuter ticket schemes for staff and other staff business expenses.
• Maintaining financial records in such a way as to facilitate timely and accurate financial data for decision making.
• Support the Finance team to ensure their objectives are met
• Performing unit project work and participating in cross-functional project work and collaborative tasks.
• Other ad hoc finance duties as assigned by the Finance Manager.

Essential requirements

Suitable candidates must be able to demonstrate the following knowledge and skills:

• Finance related work experience.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical skills and sound judgement.
• A proven track record of delivering high quality results under pressure.
• Excellent administration, organisational, diary and file management skills.
• The ability to prioritise work and to multi-task.
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships.
• The ability to work independently and/or cooperatively within a team environment in order to provide a customer-focused service.
• Excellent computer skills particularly Excel, Word and Outlook.

• Previous public/civil service experience in finance/accounting would be advantageous.