Client Finance Accounting Technician

Department: Client Finance

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Cheltenham

Description

To provide a professional accounting service to Clients. This includes ensuring you complete all responsibilities, services and deliverables below in an accurate, timely, relevant, compliant and cost-effective manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure you deliver agreed services to clients in manner described above. Services may include but are not limited to:
• Maintain accounting records
• Prepare and check and process transactions and reference data on ledger
• Reconcile balance sheet and P&L items
• Settle payments in line with relevant delegated authority and monitor/resolve outstanding invoices/statements
• Issue invoices/statements and monitor, chase and resolve outstanding balances
• Match receipts to debts
• Monitor cash balances
• Assist with the preparation of management accounts, dashboards, KPIS, regulatory returns, cash analysis and forecasts

Other:

• Assist with on-boarding of new clients and closedown of ceased clients.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with clients, third parties and other Polo staff.
• Advise managers of new/changed risks.
• Ensure procedures and controls are documented, followed, reviewed, and updated.
• Keep up with regulatory changes and work with clients, third parties and other Polo staff to ensure such changes are implemented in a controlled and timely manner.
• Look for ways to improve receivables/services/deliverables/controls or decrease costs and work with clients, third parties and other Polo staff to ensure such changes are implemented in a controlled and timely manner.
• Assist with ensuring receivables/services/deliverables/controls are as required and resolve any issues.
• Assist with internal/external audits for clients/Polo.
• Ensure information security rules are embedded in your work.
• Other ad-hoc projects and tasks as required.