Temporary Finance Assistant

Temporary Finance Administrator
Location: Edinburgh City Centre
Duration: 1 month with potential to be extended
Start Date: Immediate
Working Pattern: Flexible hybrid working pattern of 3 to 5 days per week
Salary/Rate: Competitive depending on experience

Our respected client is seeking an experienced Finance Administrator to join their team on a temporary basis. This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys working with high volumes of financial data whilst maintaining exceptional levels of accuracy.

The Opportunity
Supporting a busy finance function, you will play a key role in ensuring financial records are maintained accurately and reconciliations are completed efficiently across multiple entities and currencies. This position would suit someone who enjoys transactional finance, problem-solving and working with large data sets.

Key Responsibilities

• Processing high volumes of financial transactions across multiple entities and currencies
• Performing daily and month end bank reconciliations
• Reconciling sales and payment data against bank receipts
• Investigating and resolving unmatched transactions and discrepancies
• Processing supplier invoices, including coding, matching and query resolution
• Maintaining accurate financial records and supporting the wider finance team
• Utilising Excel extensively to analyse, match and reconcile large data sets
• Escalating issues where appropriate and supporting process improvements

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Proven experience within a high-volume transactional finance environment
• Strong bank reconciliation experience across multiple entities and currencies
• Experience using a cloud-based accounting system (such as Xero or a similar platform)
• Advanced Excel skills, including lookups and handling large datasets
• Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to work accurately under pressure
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills

What's on Offer?

• Immediate start opportunity
• Flexible working pattern of 3 to 5 days per week
• Hybrid working arrangement with office-based collaboration days
• Exposure to a busy and dynamic finance function
• Potential opportunity to be considered for longer-term opportunities

If you are an experienced Finance Administrator looking for your next temporary assignment and can hit the ground running, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today to discuss this opportunity!

Working as a temp is an ideal way of exploring different job roles and industries. It's also gives you control of your own work/life balance. Here are just some of the benefits you can expect when you become part of the Office Angels team:

• Employed directly with Office Angels, meaning we're always on hand to ensure you're being well looked after
• We can search for permanent work whilst you're in assignments and offer expert interview support and advice
• Weekly pay
• Pension scheme option (with employer contributions)
• 28 days paid annual leave (Based on a weekly accrual)

By registering with Office Angels you will benefit from the support of a dedicated and experienced recruitment consultant, have access to various interviewing techniques, regular updates of the local employment market and consistent feedback on all applications. This service is offered right through to the day you start your new role and beyond.

Office Angels are an equal opportunity employer and are acting as a recruitment agency for this vacancy.

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Office Angels acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Office Angels UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Office Angels. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explaining how we will use your information is available on our website.