My client is seeking a finance officer to join their team on a permanent basis. Working as part of the Central Finance Team, you will be responsible for payroll processing, as well as accounts payable and other general finance admin support. You will have previous experience in a finance role as well as excellent attention to detail and organisational skills and be accustomed to working in a fast-paced finance, accountancy or bookkeeping environment. You will also need to have some knowledge of payroll.

Day to day your role will include:

*Supporting the other Finance Officer(s) in administering receipts and payments on the online banking system.
*Reviewing and ensuring correct postings on the accounting system and supporting on any reconciliations and analysis as required
*Supporting colleagues in the finance department to meet certain reporting deadlines as well as the annual audit.
*Prepare payroll reconciliation.
*Prepare payroll journals received from payroll provider and post these journals to the accounting system (Xero).
*Prepare variance analysis of actual monthly payroll costs to budgeted with supporting commentary.
*Processing of purchase orders (POs), invoices, employee expenses using the Accounts Payable workflow system (Planergy).
*Ensuring purchase orders and invoices and payments are processed in accordance with policies and paid within the correct timeframe.
*Undertake other tasks and ad-hoc projects as reasonably required by the Finance Director and Finance Manager.
This is a permanent role, and requires someone who has the AAT qualification as well as previous finance experience.

The role is 3 to 4 days a week in the Berkshire office and the pay range is £30,500 to £32,000.