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Trainee Accountant
Zurich InsuranceTrainee Accountant role in Zurich Life Ireland managing daily cash operations and processing payments. Collaborating with the finance team and assisting in bank reconciliation efforts.
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- 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
Requirements
What you’ll need- 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
- Interested in completing an accountancy qualification
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive compensation package
- Opportunities for further training & development
- Benefits package including acceptance, diversity and team spirit
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Hard Skills & Tools
cash managementEFT processingcheque paymentsbank reconciliationSAPDirect Debit processingcashbook journalsreconciliationpayment processingaccounting
Soft Skills
attention to detailteamworkcommunicationinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillstime managementproblem-solvingownershiplogical thinkingwillingness to learn
Certifications
accountancy qualification