French speaking GRADUATE Finance Assistant

Location: Staffordshire, Lichfield (Must be able to drive to office)

Work Model: Office based but will transition to a hybrid model after 6-8 weeks training

Working hours: 08.30-17.00 Monday to Thursday and 08.30-16.45 on Friday with 45 mins for lunch

Salary: up to £25,000

Language: French

Are you a commercially minded finance or business graduate looking to use your exceptional French language skills to build a successful finance career? Our client is a thriving, rapidly growing international manufacturing business. This is a unique opportunity to learn all aspects of finance, with the possibility to work towards AAT or CIMA and further boost your career.

The role:

Liaise with and support all members of the finance team, French team, and French Franchisees, with French division and French subsidiary accounting and management reporting. Full training will be given during the first 6-8 weeks!

Duties:

• Act as first line of response to queries to multiple departments from internal and external contacts
• Post invoices, automated and manual, to the ledger
• Run and review aged debtors and debtor reporting
• Send out month end and interim statements as per company procedure
• Ensure invoices / payments are authorised as per company procedure
• Ensure payments are made to suppliers by the appropriate method at agreed payment days
• Process and payment of staff expenses in line with company procedure
• Ensure expense claim forms are authorised by appropriate line manager
• Deal with requests for personnel and payroll information
• Payroll to general ledger reconciliation and review

Skills/Requirements:

• Fluency in French
• Degree-level education, minimum 2:1 classification in a relevant discipline (finance, accountancy, maths, economics, business studies), ideally gained within the last 2 years
• Minimum 1 years’ experience working in a finance position
• Ability to work under pressure in a deadline driven environment

If you are interested, apply now!!

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