Management Accounts Assistant

Reference
1110150

Branch
University of Staffordshire

Start date
20/04/2026

Duration
Ongoing

Hours and days
Monday - Friday. 35 hours per week. 9am - 5pm

Dress code
Smart Casual

Salary from
£26,000

Salary to
£28,000

Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our prestigious client who are looking for an Management Accounts Assistant to join their team.As the Management Accounts Assistant, you will support the day-to-day functions of the finance team from the purchase ledger, payments and daily cash postings and bank reconciliations. You’ll be responsible for ensuring accurate records and internal controls are maintained as well as an adherence to internal and external deadlines. Support the Financial Controller in delivering key activities that influence the efficiency of financial reporting and the smooth day to day running of financial operations within the Society.

Duties and responsibilities

• Accurate coding and posting of invoices onto the system in line with budget holder expectations and budget worksheets.
• Conducting weekly purchase ledger payment runs.
• Liasing with suppliers and budget holders to resolve queries or discrepancies.
• Maintaining an efficient recording and filing system.
• Completion of daily interfacing routine between the Finova core system and Whistlebrook Financials system. This includes the daily reconciliation of the chip and pin and DD control accounts.
• Support with the processing of morning and afternoon routine CHAPS, BACS & Faster Payments runs, as well as ad hoc payments as and when required, and posting of all payments to the cash book.
• Ability to support and complete daily bank reconciliations for the Society’s main current account (‘No1 account’) and Society’s cheque clearance accounts (‘Cheque Banking’) ensuring all items are accurately and timely posted and reconciled in line with procedure manuals and SLAs..
• Be a point of contact for all internal queries through the finance team phone line, Microsoft teams and Finance Team inbox.
• Support in ensuring all emails received into the Finance Team inbox are addressed or allocated to a relevant team member on the day of receipt.
• Support in returning unallocated customer standing order receipts within SLA as per internal instruction, requesting bank details from the Society’s Clearing Bank as and when necessary.
• Contributing to the continuous development of the department’s processes and procedures, ensuring up to date documentation and work procedures are in place.
• Support the Financial Controller in ensuring team efficiency and effectiveness by continual review and improvement of manual and automated systems. Recognising, developing and managing elements of financial reporting and financial controls to improve efficiency and ensure data is accurate and reliable.
• Completion of Treasury Back Office or Front Office function.
• Support with other ad-hoc financial tasks as assigned by the Financial Controller.
• Support with and deliver month-end duties assigned by the Financial Controller.
• Support with and deliver regulatory returns and reporting.
• Support on projects as assigned by the Financial Controller.
• All other associated duties and responsibilities and carry out any tasks as required.
• Ensure that staff and members’ data is secure, accurate and used correctly in line the Society GDPR policy and standards. Adhere to the Society Financial Crime Policy, the controls and report any internal or external incidents of actual or suspected fraud, money laundering or financial crime, either in accordance with the internal money laundering process (Suspicious Activities Report) or via the Society’s Whistleblowing Policy.  Complete and pass an annual dedicated financial crime and bribery prevention computer-based training test.

Skills and experience

• Effective communication skills (written and verbally) – able to communicate with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Flexible with a positive and enthusiastic attitude.
• Numerate and analytically minded, with attention to detail.
• High level of literacy and the ability to present information in a user friendly, logical format.
• Knowledge of IT systems and Microsoft Office, in particular Microsoft Outlook and Excel.
• Be able to rise to the challenges presented in a demanding environment.
• Self-motivated and ability to use own initiative.
• Excellent time management, organisation, and administrative skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure and to set deadlines.
• Ability to act in good faith toward retail customers.
• Ability to enable & support retail customers to pursue their financial objectives.

Essential:

• AAT qualified.
• Minimum of GCSE Maths and English Grade C or above.
• Excellent numerical, written, and verbal communication skills.

• Financial Services experience. 

Location
Stoke-On-Trent

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Holiday Pay
• Pension Scheme
• Great company to work for

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