Office and Finance Administrator in South East London

We are working with a boutique food import/trade company based near London Bridge station who require a strong administrator to support the running of the office and traders. This is quite a wide-reaching role where you will be involved with contract set up and management through to reception, data input, admin support and basic accounting tasks.

On a day to day basis duties will include:

• Contract set up and record management using the commodity trading program ITAS, includes maintenance of client details
• Sending contracts to the counter parties and chasing any outstanding unsigned contracts
• Processing supplier invoices, expenses and credit notes and investigating any discrepancies
• Preparing payment letters/instructions with accompanying loan documents for purchase invoices
• Reconciliation of supplier statements
• Reporting on European VAT
• FX reconciliation by processing the currency in ITAS
• Sending product samples to clients
• Reception/switchboard duties
• Providing ad-hoc admin support to the Managing Director and other traders

This is a great company to work for, with a small friendly team. You will be required to work in the office full-time, 9.00am 5.30pm. Key for this role will be strong MS Office skills (especially Word and Excel), proven accurate keyboard skills, and numeracy, and you will have ideally supported an export/trade team in a similar capacity previously. This permanent position offers a salary of £35-38,000 per annum, dependent on skills and experience. They are ideally looking for someone to start in late July, but there is some flexibility on this.

If this role is of interest, please submit your CV ASAP.Please note that we consider every CV submitted to us, however due to the high volume of applications and time constraints we are only able to get back to those applications that are successful.