Accounting Technician

About the role

Working as part of the Finance Team based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Amongst other duties, this role is required to:

• record income and expenditure in the finance systems, in an accurate and timely manner;
• process payments to suppliers, staff salaries and expenses;
• perform month end reconciliations for appropriate control accounts (including bank reconciliations) & follow up to clear any reconciling items;
• liaise with external payroll provider, posting all payroll related journals and be the point of contact for all payroll queries in the Belfast Office.

About you

Essential

• Qualified Accounting Technician or part-qualified accountant (at qualified accounting technician level or higher)
• Demonstrable Payroll Experience within the last 5 years
• Demonstrable experience of processing income and expenditure transactions, and journals on computerised accounting system
• Demonstrable experience of preparing control account reconciliations (For example reconciliations any of the of the following: bank, debtors, creditors or intercompany)
• Experience of using basic functions of Microsoft Excel
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure

Desirable

• Charity Experience
• Experience in using any of our financial systems (such as SUN, Proactis or Ascent)

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build partnerships

Tell us about a time when you were proactive in taking on new and additional work to achieve a team or organisational goal.

Steward resources

Please tell us about a time when you were able to take action to end or reduce the inefficient use of resources.

Realise potential

Please tell us about a time when you took action to address gaps in your own knowledge and skills without being prompted.