Banking and Senior Accounts Officer

Your new company
Working for an international scientific charity based in Central London. This is a permanent position, offering hybrid working.
Your new role

• This role will be leading the month end balance sheet reconciliation for cash, credit cards and intercompany accounts. They will be managing external relationships with payment card providers (WorldPay, AMEX, Adyan, Sumup, Nayax, Shopify) Trusts and Individual Donors.
• Responsible for allocating receipts & payments against invoices on the AR and AP ledger and correct coding of grant/sundry income and expenditure.
• Responsible for uploading and coding of all bank transactions (multi-currency) on a daily basis for the charity and its commercial entity, including the correct VAT treatment of income and expenditure, recording of foreign exchange differences on 8 live bank accounts.
• Responsible for monthly bank reconciliations of all bank accounts
• Responsible for control account reconciliations and allocation of transactions on control accounts for cash, streamline, all credit card providers, debtors' suspense & CAF and Intercompany accounts.
• Leading the advice to Education, Fundraising, Marketing and IOZ around monies received and returned via bank transfers from Donors or via the DD's route
• Monitoring cheque and CAF payments for un-cleared items and follow up .
• Investigate and seeing through to a successful resolution, any reconciling differences as and when they occur, ensuring any issues are settled in a timely and efficient manner and brought to FAM's attention.
• Accountable for the preparation and posting of Cash and Cashbook journals from the bank accounts on a timely basis and hitting month end deadlines.
• Responsible for investigating unallocated receipts in suspense account and allocating these to the relevant income streams
• Ensuring effective quality control and continuous improvement in all aspects of the work and responsibilities attached to this role and provide enhancements/ recommendations to FAM to safeguard that there are no auditor points raised.

What you'll need to succeed

• Significant experience with bank accounts and balance sheet ledger reconciliations in a larger business.
• Able to work autonomously, prioritise and work efficiently in a fast-paced but supportive environment.
• Ability to complete the role with minimal supervision, and know when to communicate issues to FAM.
• Knowhow of planning and managing their workload and being able to prioritise work in order to meet deadlines in a calm and professional manner.
• Previous knowledge of Sun and Tessitura (desirable).
• Excellent attention to detail

What you'll get in return

• Flexible, hybrid working.
• Pension scheme - we offer a generous pension scheme with up to 14% contributory pension.
• Holidays - 30 days annual leave allowance, plus UK bank holidays.
• Wellbeing - access to a blended programme of wellbeing initiatives, including confidential access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programm.
• Cycle2Work - our cycle to work scheme enables you to lease a bicycle.
• Season ticket loan - we offer an interest free loan to buy a season ticket for travel between home and work.

What you need to do now

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