The Finance Placement Student will work between our Accounts Payable and Credit Control teams in a busy finance environment. The successful student will provide assistance and administrative support, in return gaining exposure to the finance function of a large manufacturing organisation.
The successful candidate can expect to receive the following:
- Mentored by the Finance Supervisor and Credit Manager
- Gain exposure to the full spectrum of finance activities
- Competitive salary
- A range of Company benefits
A year long placement opportunity with Decora can represent the foundation of a career with the Company. Across the business we have a number of placement students who have returned to permanent roles on completion of their degree. Gareth Johnston, Human Resources Officer, explains his experience:
“I joined Decora in 2017 as a HR Placement Student gaining valuable experience in various areas of HR through a tailored development plan which benefited me greatly during my final year studies. I returned to the business as a HR Graduate and have since progressed to HR Officer. The Company continue to support my development through training and further exposure to all areas of HR. “
Main duties and responsibilities
- Working with the Finance Team to deal with all invoices coming into the company through computerised systems.
- Updating and maintaining supplier records.
- Setting up new supplier records.
- Reconciling and creating supplier payments through the different banking systems.
- Reconciling employee expenses through computerised systems.
- Ordering and delegating company stationery.
- Creating credit notes relating to support calls and ensuring all credits are authorised by the relevant personnel.
- Reconciling petty cash each week.
- Administrative duties in the office.
- Uploading of EDI invoices to customer finance portal for payments.
- Assisting with posting and allocation of all customer daily payments; cheques, BACS and credit cards, in line with daily timelines.
- Reconciling unallocated payments.
- Updating and maintaining customer records.
- Logging of customer queries onto in-house query management system.
- Convert customer paid quotes to order in line with daily cut offs, maintain and reconcile daily spread sheet.
- Send copy invoices and statements to customers as requested.
- Assist in new account application by obtaining satisfactory credit references. Gather all data for new accounts for manager approval.
- Any other reasonable duties which may be required by management from time to time.
Essential requirements
- Currently studying towards a Business or Finance related degree
- Strong IT skills including proficiency in Microsoft packages
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Effective communicator with the ability to communicate at all levels
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to learn new skills and tasks quickly
- High degree of motivation and enthusiasm
- Able to work in a team or individually, as required
Desirable requirements
- Experience of financial systems
- Experience of customer services
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Demonstrate an organised approach to work with the ability to prioritise
What we offer
Benefits
- Enhanced annual leave
- Attendance rewards- quarterly £50
- Paid medical appointment allowance
- Health Shield benefit upon 6 months service
- Discount on company products- up to 50%
- Vitality leisure corporate discount
- Employee referral scheme
- Employee recognition schemes
- On-site parking