Central Financial Services Assistant

Role Overview:

Working alongside the Senior Central Operations Assistant to support on the following activities:

• Barclaycard administration – ensure cardholder spend complies with policy.
• Expenses – review expenses for compliance
• Banking administration – setting up payments and gaining final approval.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Barclaycard
  • Check all submissions for correct coding / VAT recovery / policy compliance.
  • Liaise with cardholders to ensure all transactions are reviewed and submitted.
  • Support cardholders on queries relating to card problems.
  • Administration of new cardholder creation / cards cancellation.
  • Recharge personal / out of policy spend as required.
  • Undertake payments using virtual Barclaycards.

• Employee expenses – provide support to employee out of pocket expenses using Core HR
  • Check VAT compliance and policy compliance.
  • Ensure correct expense categories are selected.
  • Support employees on expense queries and system guidance.

• Banking – create payments on the various banking platforms and obtain final approval including Barclays Precision pay.
• Foreign petty cash
  • Review foreign petty cash requests and issue cash to employees.
  • Ensure policy is followed and paperwork / receipts / cash is returned at the end of the trip.
  • Ad hoc tasks to support month end process.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge needed:

• Experience required - Microsoft outlook, excel and word
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Ability to achieve high levels of accuracy whilst working under pressure.
• Experience of Oracle (EBS) an advantage

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

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