Banking and Investment Officer
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The vacancy
Banking and Investment Officer
Waterloo, London
Permanent contract
£37,628 plus London weighting of £3,160 per annum
About Prospect
Prospect is a leading trade union that delivers advice, support, representation, and a voice for our members. We are a not-for-profit organisation with over 250 staff helping to support more than 150,000 people in specialist, professional and technical roles across the private and public sectors.
The Role of Banking and Investment Officer
Reporting to the Head of Finance the main purpose of the role is to administer and maintain the union’s investment portfolio and multiple bank accounts including corresponding cashbooks reconciliations and cashflow forecast.
This role requires a candidate to have sound double entry bookkeeping knowledge, have a good understanding of banking procedures, investment portfolio monitoring and relevant accounting legislation.
Responsibilities:
- Reconciliation of a large number of bank accounts including processing on Sage and the banking software
- Opening accounts/closing accounts/mandate updates including DD set up
- Main contact for Unity Trust bank on all daily transactions on all bank accounts
- Daily/weekly limits checking
- Processing Unity Trust payments on Unity online
- Monitoring savings accounts and ensuring best interest rate achieved on cash deposits
- Weekly/monthly/quarterly cashflow preparation, analysis and monitoring including year-end processes
- Credit Card applications processing and management of credit cards
- Investment portfolio management including reconciliation, monitoring of the performance and production on reports
- Processing and reconciliation of various funds including accrual preparation
- Nominal ledger codes analysis and reconciliation
- Benevolent fund administration and preparation of reports
- Ad hock duties as required during busy periods and holiday cover.
Person Specification:
- Qualified AAT or part qualified ACA or ACCA as a minimum
- Manages and prioritises time and tasks effectively, identifying steps needed to ensure accurate processing
- Good follow-up skills, seeing things through to completion
- Takes initiative and acts with confidence
- Communicates and explains information, both written and oral, in an uncomplicated way and showing tact
- Solid experience in finance banking procedures and relevant legislation
- Exposure to administration and management of investment portfolio
- Proficiency in Excel (Pivot Tables/VLOOKUPs, graphs as a minimum)
- Able to work in a team with a can-do attitude
- Enthusiastic and motivated in developing own knowledge and skills
- Previous experience working with large volume of bank accounts
- Sound knowledge of the finance processes and procedures to allow for team cover when needed
Application details
For further details please e-mail: recruitment@prospect.org.uk
Closing date: Noon Wednesday 24th May
Interview dates to be confirmed
Diversity is an important value for the trade union movement, and as an organisation we are passionate about promoting equality at work and are committed to it for all our staff; we would be particularly interested in applications from groups that are underrepresented in the workplace.
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About us
Prospect is a leading trade union that delivers advice, support, representation and a voice for our members. We are a not-for-profit organisation with over 250 staff helping to support more than 150,000 people in specialist, professional and technical roles across the private and public sectors. The Bectu Sector of Prospect represents both employees and freelancers working in Film, TV, Broadcasting and theatre and live events.
Our members want to get on at work. They work in a diverse range of professions, including energy, science, engineering, heritage, defence, entertainment and digital. As a union for modern working life we aim to get the best deal for our members by using evidence and building partnerships – while never being scared to call employers out when they get things wrong.
Our priorities are to grow our membership through attracting new members and to improve our impact, whether that is helping members win improvements at work or changing the policy environment which affects them.
Diversity is an important value for the trade union movement, and as an organisation we are passionate about promoting equality and equity at work and are committed to it for all our staff; we would be particularly interested in applications from groups that are underrepresented in the workplace.
Prospect is a great place to work - We offer a good work-life balance, flexible working options and offer support for learning and development.
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