Finance Assistant

Job description

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join our newly created Seafreight Central Invoicing processing team based at our offices in Aston, Birmingham.

Your Role

As a key member of the Seafreight Central Invoice Processing team you will play an integral part in resolving any invoice queries or disputes to enable invoices to be processed. Our queries range from operational queries, to trade rate queries and to supplier disputes - some queries may be a combination of all of these.

Your Responsibilities

·  Identify the query or invoice dispute of invoices and update relevant systems.
·  Contact the relevant suppliers with disputes via telephone and email in line with the required format/query template.
·  Regularly update and maintain reports in line with role requirements and relevant Key performance Indicators (KPI's).
·  Highlight areas of improvement and escalate any issues to line manager.
·  Build strong working relationship with branch operational teams and their suppliers.
·  Performing any other duties agreed with your manager as and when necessary.
·  To understand and adhere to national and local Health and Safety policies & procedures.

Your Skills and Experiences

·  Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing, you'll have experience in maintaining good relationships with both internal stakeholders and with our external customers.
·  Purchase ledger experience is really important. Some experience of working within a logistics environment would also be ideal, (Sea freight knowledge in particular). 
·  Excellent team player, focussed on providing customer excellence.
·  Proficiency in MS-Office – especially Excel Experience (with Formulae and VLOOKUP).
·  Polite and professional telephone manner and email etiquette
·  Logical, investigative mindset with a tenacity to identify and solve problems
·  Excellent organisational skills and strong interpersonal skills, with a strong work ethic and sound financial understanding and commercial awareness.

Good Reasons to Join

If you would like to become a valued member of our team then we will also make sure that you’re rewarded for your commitment and expertise. We are offering a competitive salary, with 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance and private health insurance. You will also have the opportunity to join the contributory Kuehne + Nagel pension plan and benefit from our Route 2 Rewards scheme which offers discounts and savings on a wide range of high street or internet goods and services.