Interim Treasury/Cash Allocation Assistant - #2187934

The role

A busy Bristol-based finance function is looking for an experienced Treasury / Cash Allocation Assistant to provide additional support across its Accounts Receivable and cash-management processes.
The priority is finding somebody with a strong treasury mindset who is comfortable dealing with significant volumes of incoming payments and can ensure cash is accurately identified, allocated, reconciled and followed through to the appropriate customer accounts.
The successful candidate will provide important support during a period of month-end, statutory audit, wider business consolidation and preparation for future ERP implementation.

Key responsibilities

• Processing and allocating high volumes of incoming cash receipts
• Matching bank transfers, card payments and other receipts against customer accounts
• Posting and allocating cash accurately within the finance system
• Completing daily and periodic bank reconciliations
• Completing cash and customer account reconciliations
• Investigating unidentified and unmatched payments
• Resolving cash allocation discrepancies
• Tracking transactions through the full allocation and reconciliation process
• Maintaining accurate records across bank and customer accounts
• Working closely with Credit Control and the wider Accounts Receivable team
• Supporting month-end cash and balance-sheet reconciliation activity
• Assisting with audit queries and information where required
• Helping improve the accuracy and efficiency of existing cash-management processes

The ideal candidate

• Previous experience within Treasury, Cash Allocation, Cash & Banking or Accounts Receivable
• Strong experience of high-volume cash allocation
• Excellent reconciliation skills
• Experience working with multiple payment methods, including bank transfers and card transactions
• Good knowledge of bank and customer account reconciliations
• Comfortable investigating unmatched or unidentified payments
• Strong attention to detail
• Confident Excel user
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and changing finance environment
• Able to hit the ground running with limited supervision

Highly desirable

• Experience within a high-volume, multi-entity finance environment
• Previous involvement with ERP systems or finance transformation
• Experience of NetSuite would be advantageous but not essential

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