Finance Assistant

FDM Group is seeking an enthusiastic professional to join our Brighton-based Finance Team as a Finance Assistant.

Reporting to the Credit Manager, the Finance Assistant will sit within the Finance team with a primary focus on reconciliations and financial accuracy across international client accounts.

The role involves working with a portfolio of international clients who pay via self-bill, ensuring accurate and timely reconciliation of client remittances to internally raised invoices, investigating discrepancies, and maintaining the integrity of the sales ledger.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform detailed reconciliations of client remittances to sales ledger invoices, ensuring completeness and accuracy
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies, short payments, and allocation issues in a timely manner
• Maintain accurate cash allocation and account balance positions across international ledgers
• Take ownership of a portfolio of international clients from a reconciliation and query resolution perspective
• Work closely with billing, sales, and operational teams to resolve root causes of reconciliation differences
• Improve and streamline reconciliation processes, controls, and reporting
• Support month-end processes including ledger reviews, balance validations, and reporting
• Monitor and manage aged items primarily from a query resolution standpoint rather than collections focus