Finance assistant

Role purpose

Provide support to the finance team in other areas as required.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

• Reconcile bank accounts and other accounts in the Balance, to ensure accuracy with actual operations.
• Process payments to providers and team, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Assist with the preparation and coordination of audits and other financial assessments.
• Complete forms required by banks, providers and other business partners
• Raise Purchase orders in Sage with accuracy and timeliness.
• Update spreadsheets and financial information to prepare postings
• Keep organized records of all financial documents.

Key Skills and Knowledge Required

• Technical knowledge of finance related fields, with experience in budgeting, financial planning and cost analysis.
• Ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively.
• Ability to manage own workload, prioritizing when required.
• Ability to communicate in English.

Competencies/Behaviours

• Customer Orientation: The ability to demonstrate concern for satisfying one's external and/or internal customers.
o Quickly and effectively solves customer problems.
o Talks to customers (internal or external) to find out what they want and how satisfied they are with what they are getting.
o Presents a cheerful, positive manner with customers.

• Forward Thinking: The ability to anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies.
o Anticipates possible problems and develops contingency plans.
o Notices trends in the industry or marketplace and develops plans to prepare for opportunities or problems.
o Anticipates the consequences of situations and plans accordingly.

• Results Orientation: The ability to focus on the desired result of one's own or one's unit's work, setting challenging goals, focusing effort on the goals, and meeting or exceeding them.
o Develops challenging but achievable goals.
o Develops clear goals for meetings and projects.
o Maintains commitment to goals in the face of obstacles and frustrations.
o Finds or creates ways to measure performance against goals.
o Exerts unusual effort over time to achieve a goal.
o Has a strong sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done

• Self Confidence: Faith in one's own ideas and capability to be successful; willingness to take an independent position in the face of opposition.
o Is confident of own ability to accomplish goals.
o Presents self impressively.
o Is willing to speak up to the right person or group at the right time, when he/she disagrees with a decision or strategy.
o Approaches challenging tasks with a "can-do" attitude.

Profesional

Universitaria

Administración de empresas

1 año de experiencia

1 Vacante