Trainee Accountant
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Job Summary
Zurich Life Ireland (ZLAP) is recruiting for a Trainee Accountant to join the financial operations team, part of the Zurich finance team.
This role is a controlled function under the CBI Fitness and Probity Standard.
Your Role
Daily cash management process - monitoring & calculating funding requirements for assigned bank accounts.
Processing of EFT & cheque payments with responsibility for sourcing the required bank approvers and recording the entries to the relevant cashbooks.
Processing of returned payments, stale cheques & placing stops on cheque payments.
Allocation of daily EFT receipts to the policyholder administration system, reconciliation of the prior day's updates & preparing notifications for large values.
Processing of Direct Debit runs & returns along with the daily reconciliation of same.
Raising weekly & monthly cashbook journals to the SAP system.
Responsibility for resolving assigned bank reconciliation differences.
Investigate and reply to any queries assigned to you from the Finops queries mailbox.
Other ad-hoc duties.
Your Skills & Experience
Excellent accuracy & attention to detail.
Ability to work in a team environment & contribute to the performance of the team.
Good communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
Well organised & capable of working to tight deadlines.
Ability to think clearly and logically.
Intermediate level of problem-solving skills.
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel & Outlook.
Willingness to learn and take ownership of tasks.
Interest in completing an accountancy qualification.
Additional Information
Primary work location is Blackrock, Co.Dublin.
This role may be available part-time or full time.
This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren't available full time.
Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
We attract and retain the best qualified individuals available, without regard to race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.
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