PoloWorks
Senior Accounting Technician / Deputy Accountant
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Department: Client Finance
Location: Cheltenham
Description
The purpose of this role is to provide a professional accounting service to our clients, ensuring all responsibilities, services, and deliverables are carried out with accuracy and efficiency to meet client deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
Delivering agreed services to clients which may include:
- Ensuring client records are maintained and up to date, with all ledgers reconciled for review by the Client Manager.
- Assist with the preparation of Management accounts and consolidation of financial reports and regulatory returns.
- Assistance with the preparation of statutory accounts.
- Preparing, reviewing and processing journals and reference data on ledger.
- Approving payments in line with relevant delegated authority and monitoring/resolving outstanding invoices/statements.
- Monitoring cash movements and balances and escalating to the Client Manager when required.
- Reviewing /checking transactions prepared by Client Finance Analyst.
- Ensuring procedures and controls are documented, followed, and updated.
- Keeping abreast of regulatory changes and work with clients, third parties and other Polo staff to ensure such changes are implemented in a controlled and timely manner.
- Ensuring controls are as required and resolve any issues.
- Assisting with audits for clients.
- Other ad-hoc projects and tasks.
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Key Performance Indicators
- Adherence to client SLA’s
- Ability to meet quality standards
- Commitment to achieving, maintaining and developing own competence
- Upskilling wider team through knowledge sharing
Key Relationships
- Polo Works Clients and third parties
- Client Finance team and wider Polo works stakeholders
Decision Making
Decisions taken within defined guidelines for role and client specific procedures.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Experience of preparing management accounts and Annual reports and financial statements
- A keen eye for detail and strong organisational skills
- High professional ethics
- Customer focused
- Able to prioritise and plan to meet deadlines, even when they conflict
- A team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Effective problem-solving skills
- Excellent MS Excel/Word/Outlook skills
Demonstrates Behaviours Aligned To The PoloWorks PRIDE Values
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- Empowering – we equip people to be their best
Knowledge And Qualifications
- Part qualified accountant or qualified by experience
- Knowledge of general insurance finance, including regulatory returns is desirable
- Good knowledge of SUN/Q&A accounting software is desirable
Job Benefits
As well as a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a minimum 24 days of annual leave (with the option to buy more), you will also get an excellent benefits package, including flexible, hybrid working, private health insurance, life assurance, income protection, enhanced pension contributions, and occupational maternity and paternity pay.
You will also have access to company volunteering days, an Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing scheme, an employee assistance programme with retail discounts and savings, a generous employee referral scheme, regular sports and social events, and free Cheltenham bus travel.
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