International Finance Assistant
Department: Business Services - Finance
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Bristol
Description
Purpose of the role:
The International Finance Assistant will be responsible for providing support to the Firm's overseas operations in management accounting, billing, purchase and payments management, as well as providing support on ad-hoc projects including international expansions.
The International Finance Assistant role reports to the Senior International & Systems Accounting Manager and sits within the Group Financial Reporting & Control team. The International Finance Assistant will also work closely with the wider Finance teams located overseas.
Key Responsibilities
Key responsibilities of the role:
- Setting up and maintaining matters for overseas entities.
- Setting up and maintaining matter charging rates for overseas entities.
- Raising and amending bills / credit notes and dealing with billing queries for overseas entities.
- Raising payments, disbursements, expense claims and purchase invoices for overseas entities.
- Setting up and processing bank payments for overseas entities.
- Posting cash and allocating to bills for overseas entities.
- Preparing bank reconciliations for overseas entities.
- Assisting in the preparation of general ledger accounting journals (payroll, provisions and adjustments).
- Ensure all financial transactions are recording appropriately in systems, in line with Group accounting policy and local regulations, liaising with external local accountants where appropriate
- Assisting external local accountants with local regulatory requirements and filing of any necessary paperwork on time.
- Assisting external local accountants with preparation of statutory financial year-end accounts for DACB Italia entity.
- Assisting overseas entities with training on financial processes, systems and controls.
- Assisting the Group Financial Accountant with audit queries in relation to the overseas entities.
- Assisting with ad-hoc projects (International expansion, transformation) as and when required.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Key experience and skills required:
- IT literate - experience of working with 3E would be an advantage.
- Good knowledge of Excel.
- Fluent in written and oral English - knowledge of other languages like Spanish, French and Italian would be beneficial.
- Preferably some basic awareness of financial concepts (non-mandatory as full training will be provided).
- Self-starter, keen to take ownership, solve problems, learn and grown.
- Good attention to detail.
- Good communication skills are essential as the role requires liaising with other offices.
- Flexible in terms of a changing environment and workload, and working across multiple time-zones.
- Organised and able to handle multiple demands and meet deadlines simultaneously.
