General Ledger Clerk
Job Description
Your new role
We are recruiting for a General Ledger Clerk to join our Finance Business Services Team, based in our Birmingham office. We have a flexible hybrid working approach, meaning the role will be a combination of office/agile home working.
As part of your role, you will carry out a range of financial activities to maintain the integrity of the General Ledger, and provide procedural advice to financial and accounting professionals and other colleagues within National Highways.
What you’ll be leading on
- Be the first point of contact for support with both administrative and procedural issues.
- Reconcile results for financial/accounting activities.
- Be responsible for producing a range of reports and spreadsheets.
- Identify issues with existing procedures, including potential training issues, and liaise with colleagues to recommend modifications, replacement or new procedures.
- Monitoring and posting of General Ledger Journals received as part of the monthly financial reporting process.
- Contribute to ensuring availability of adequate documentation of processes and procedures pertinent to the work of the team and where the wider organisation is affected.
To be successful you’ll need
- Good understanding of financial/accounting procedures and how they fit the overall functioning of the department.
- Experience in a customer service environment.
- Experience of using financial systems.
- Good IT skills, especially in Excel.
- Attention to detail and organisation skills.
A bit about us
Delivery is a huge collective exercise, with collaboration between Finance and Business Services – FBS – and every other part of the business. Getting it right means success for us all. Our remit in FBS is very broad – and there is a lot to do.