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Accounts Assistant

Brooks Macdonald
Full-time
On-site
London

Brooks Macdonald Group plc is one of the UK's leading wealth management firms, recognised for investment performance and client service. We offer leading multi-asset investment services to intermediaries, and high-quality financial planning advice to private clients, benefitting from a strong local presence across the UK. We offer fulfilling careers in an inclusive culture that values diversity, ambition and rewards high performance. Our values (we call them our guiding principles) underpin our culture and are at the heart of everything we do: we do the right thing we are connected we care we make a difference We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who live our guiding principles and are focused on ensuring good outcomes for our clients. Role Overview: This role is responsible for delivering accurate and timely accounts payable activities within the Workday Financials system. Key responsibilities include processing supplier invoices, managing scheduled payment runs, performing bank reconciliations, and maintaining strong vendor relationships. The role also supports employee expense submissions and contributes to audit preparation and compliance with internal financial controls. Key Responsibilities: Accounts Payable & Banking: Process supplier invoices and employee expenses through Workday, ensuring correct coding, approvals, and PO matching; Maintain supplier records in Workday, including banking details and tax information; Execute weekly payment runs in Workday, ensuring timely and accurate payments; Monitor and resolve issues related to payment failures or discrepancies; Respond to vendor queries and manage payment schedules to maintain strong supplier relationships. Accounting: Post supplier payments to the general ledger and ensure correct allocation to cost centres; Reconcile supplier ledgers and resolve outstanding creditor items; Perform monthly bank reconciliations, ensuring all transactions are accurately posted in Workday; Involvement in other financial reporting tasks and balance sheet reconciliations where required. Audit & Controls: Support external audit deliverables related to AP and banking; Execute finance controls as outlined in process documentation and finance policies; Identify and escalate risks, ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory requirements. Knowledge, Skills, & Experience: Skills: Strong organisational and time management skills; Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities; Collaborative team player with a proactive approach. Knowledge: Knowledge of how accounting rules apply to processing invoices, payments, and reconciliations; Familiarity with Workday or similar ERP systems beneficial. Qualifications and Experience: Experience of working in a Finance team; Familiarity with Workday or similar ERP systems; Would suit recent university graduate or part-qualified accountant. We value different ways of working and actively promote flexible working across our business. Collaboration is important to us as a firm, with employees required to be in the office 3 days a week, and each team having a core in-office day per week. We’re committed to promoting equal employment opportunities and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, religion or belief, sexuality, age, disability, gender, gender identity, marital status or pregnancy and maternity. If you are a highly motivated individual, who is looking for a challenging but rewarding career, we want to hear from you. Introduce yourself to our recruitment team and we'll get in touch if there's an opportunity that seems like a good match. We help all our people to meet their full potential through innovative, effective and engaging experiences. We know there’s no better way to learn and develop than through hands-on experience and everyday challenges, blended with formal learning, and we encourage everyone to take ownership of their personal and professional development. Nurturing our employees to reach their full potential is central to our success as a business. We offer our employees support with their ongoing development through a number of initiatives including professional qualifications, and training and development programmes.

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