Finance Officer (632683)

The Finance Officer's role is a varied one, where your skills and versatility will be utilised to support the breadth of our Finance Team's function. A key part of the Finance Officer's role will be to provide a number of varied financial services within the Pension Fund, with opportunities to progress and support for accountancy training.

Key duties include:

• Investigate and resolve supplier queries, reconcile supplier statements


• Identify and post prepayments and accruals


• Produce adhoc reports and analysis


• When required, you will support the Finance Team by undertaking:


• Daily accounting for the general ledger (data entry, statement reconciliation)


• Sundry debtor processes and raising invoices


• Bank Accounts reconciliation, and suspense account clearance


• Reconciling employers monthly contribution payments to members' records


• Posting pensions contributions to members' records
  
  Previous accounting experience of general ledger record maintenance, bank reconciliation and sundry debtor transactions


• Experience in month end reconciliations and preparing variance analysis


• Intermediate capability in using financial software such as SAP or Oracle Financial


• Studying or willing to study for accountancy qualifications


• Excellent Excel and Words skills


• Strong attention to detail and root-cause resolution, demonstrates a high level of intellect and speed of understanding


• Versatile and adaptable, willing to undertake an array of basic financial tasks


• Outstanding customer communication skills, be an excellent team player, and able to multi-task
  
  West Yorkshire Pension Fund is a leading Local Government Pension Fund and one of the UK largest pension funds, based in Bradford. Due to our increasing Shared Service with other pension funds we require a Finance Officer to join our small, friendly team based in Aldermanbury House in Bradford City Centre.