The Finance Assistant is responsible for carrying out the day-to-day accounting and general administrative functions and tasks detailed below under the supervision of the Finance analyst. The successful candidate will perform a wide range of finance, accounts, procurement and administrative duties, running of the network operations for all Hera Purchase to Pay procedures and payment routines.

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Support the day-to-day operation of the payments routine, including supplier and staff payments, ensuring the guidelines and policies are correctly followed.
• Ensure all finance and procurement processes are followed in line with audit recommendations, including reconciliations , support to the bank liaison (with Bradesco and Citibank), finance returns to London on request, providing general network finance and P2P guidance, answering enquiries and questions regarding process and policy.
• Support network teams, Regional Hub and GTPC UK on consolidated, regionalised and self-service finance and P2P processes, resolving issues and ensuring process problems do not reoccur, following SLA agreements. Build and maintain effective working relationships with all London departments and network teams.
• Identify invoices on hold and clear them promptly, including invoices with missing information.
• Review, correct and approve supplier maintenance form requests, ensuring bank account information is correctly inserted. Manage supplier database in line with the Supplier Optimisation project.
• Assist and support other corporate service teams as and when required during leave periods and operational pressures.