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.