Finance Assistant Jobs

By: EconomyWatch   Date: 25 September 2009

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Assisting finance managers in fulfilling their job responsibilities can be a great learning experience. Through these finance assistant jobs, you can acquire the insight and skills required to grow to the middle management tier.

Finance Assistant Jobs: Types

Some of the common finance assistant jobs are:

Finance Assistant: To work as a finance assistant, you need to have:

·        Experience of processing financial information in a busy office environment

·        Experience of recording large volumes of data

·        Excellence in reconciling

·        Excellent verbal and written communication skills

·        Good attention to detail

·        Ability to plan, manage and organize workload

·        Helpful and positive attitude towards work

·        Willingness to work as part of a team

In this job you may be:

·        Receiving, checking, recording and banking all income on a daily basis.

·        Accurately processing authorized finance, including the payment of invoices and expenses.

·        Raising purchase orders after they have been authorized.

·        Creating, developing and maintaining financial spreadsheets and providing financial data in a timely and accurate manner.

·        Making the Finance Manager aware of discrepancies during the reconciliation process.

·        Answering financial queries.

·        Developing a strong understanding of all financial policies and procedures.​

·        Handling petty cash.

·        Filing financial information.

·        Providing cover for the Finance Manager when required.

Program Finance Assistant: In this position, you must have the following skills:

  • Highly numerate
  • Good bookkeeping skills
  • Proficiency in computer applications such as Excel, Word and email

As a Program Finance Assistant, you may be responsible for:

  • Passing invoices to the correct approver for authorization.
  • Completing emergency check forms and ensuring supplier and PO set up.
  • Dealing with the shared services and external supplier queries if necessary and ensuring the maintenance of customer and vendor information.
  • Processing all entries for production petty cash.
  • Controlling production petty cash, collecting from the bank and distributing within company guidelines.
  • Processing production expense claims into the system for production accountants.
  • Ensuring that invoices are attached to the claim and appropriate signatories received.
  • Liaising with the shared services and production accountants to resolve queries.
  • Setting up and managing production codes.
  • Managing settlement of the production intra-company balances.
  • Preparing the monthly invoicing and cash receipt production report.
  • Performing ad-hoc work as directed by the Senior Financial Accountant.

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