CMC Markets Hiring for Finance Assistant’s Team Leader Job at London, England Full Time

ROLE PURPOSE
The core purpose of this role is to ensure that the suppliers are paid, payments occur in a timely fashion and expenditure is accounted for correctly, through management of the Finance assistants team. A significant element of this role is to provide support to the wider Finance team, including month-end financial accounting, daily treasury transaction bookings, process improvement and ad hoc project work.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure timely and accurate payment of suppliers and staff expenditure claims through management of the Finance Assistants and monitoring of the aged creditors list across EMEA and Canada.
• Ensure the Finance Assistants are posting accurately to the appropriate cost centre, department and account codes.
• Design and maintain efficient and risk aware processes and policies in area of responsibility and document as required
• Facilitate efficient, effective and accurate execution of the monthly Accounts Payable processes by ensuring that all invoices received in the month are recorded and the correct procedures are followed to prepare for the ledgers to be closed at month-end.
• Drive effective cost and financial controls, and assist with the overall management of the Business, by encouraging the Business to raising purchase requisitions in a timely manner, correctly matching invoices to the purchase order system and ensuring invoices are paid in line with company policy.
• Be the go to person for CMC’s iProcurement system by upskilling requisition raisers on how to raise and receipt a PO in a timely and accurate manner.
• Promote expenditure management and cost control throughout the Business by providing regular, timely and targeted reporting from the procurement system.
• Ensure operating bank account balances recorded in the ledger accurately reflect the actual cash balances as per the banks, by performing reconciliations to identify, rectify and/or explain any differences.
• Assist at month end the management accountant team with GL closure tasks (e.g. review expenses accruals, reconcile creditors control account, run monthly depreciation etc.)
• Prepare monthly reporting on the performance on the AP function, including statistics and analysis.
• Maintain strong and effective relationships with external suppliers by ensuring the team responds quickly and professionally to e-mail and telephone queries.
• Manage internal relationships with CMC employees, while contributing to the maintenance of internal controls, by assisting with queries relating to the completion of expense claims and ensuring claims are in line with Group policy.
• Help facilitate a more efficient monthly reporting process, as well as develop a fuller understanding of the wider financial accounting process, by identifying areas for improvement and by taking responsibility for elements of monthly financial accounting, such as preparing and posting manual journals.
• Maintain personal/professional development to meet the changing demands of the role, including all relevant regulatory and legislative training;
• Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.

KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Essential:

• Quick learner
• Approachable and independent
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel knowledge
• Ability to adapt to financial systems
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Extensive purchase ledger management
• Experience of staff management
• Stakeholder management
• Mentality of constant improvement

Desirable:

• Knowledge, understanding or demonstrable interest in financial markets
• Degree level education
• Relevant professional qualification (such as AAT etc.)
• Experience with iProcurement
• Experience of Oracle

CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

Job Type: Full-time