Finance Assistant

Join our Finance Department at AXA Ireland as a Finance Assistant on a 12-month Contract!

You’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the accurate and timely completion of daily Accounts Payable tasks. Collaborating with the Accounts Payable team, you will manage invoice processing, payment of expenses, reconciliations and oversights to support our commitment to delivering high-quality financial services.

As a Finance Assistant, you will take responsibility for your assigned tasks, engaging and energizing your team while maintaining a customer-first culture. Your contributions will be essential in driving growth and innovation within our customer journeys and upholding the integrity of AXA values and behaviours.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work majority of your working week away from home. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What You’Ll Be Doing:

• Setting up Supplier Master Data in SAP accurately and effectively and preparing payment proposals and executing settlement.
• Processing invoices within AP Workflow systems with precision.
• Ensuring an accurate and timely month-end close process, reconciling the general ledger to month-end balances and preparing               monthly control accounts for management review.
• Monitoring and assessing risks associated with the payment process.
• Managing the AP inbox and addressing queries from suppliers and employees promptly and collaborating with stakeholders on issue      resolution while maintaining a high-quality service.
• Addressing creditor issues related to processes or payments and outstanding returns.
• A minimum of 1 -2 years total work experience (essential) with customer service experience (desirable).
• A third level qualification (Degree/Diploma) or an equivalent combination of education and experience (essential).
• A good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications is essential; familiarity with SOLUS and/or SAP general ledger (desirable).
• Strong numerical skills with keen attention to detail and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated with strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a heavy workload in a pressurized environment.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorized to work in Ireland.

This recruitment campaign will be used to support permanent, temporary and/or extension for any upcoming similar positions.

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life? Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

Proud to be part of the AXA Group, at AXA Ireland our values are at the heart of everything we do. We work together as One AXA, embracing our differences to make our teams great. We believe integrity, courage and our customer-first approach is what makes us a great place to work. AXA is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from across all communities.

One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA Ireland, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package reflects that. You can expect to receive:

• •    Competitive salary with annual review
• •    Annual company & performance-based bonus
• •    Contributory pension scheme (up to 10% employer contributions)
• •    Life Assurance
• •    Generous annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• •    AXA employee discounts
• •    Education support and plenty of learning opportunities.

AXA is proud to support the needs of our employees and as such understands everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities. We are therefore happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, should this be a requirement for you.

At AXA, we want to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for and to achieve this ambition, we need the best talent to come and work for us. We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. As a financial services company, all successful candidates will require employment checks, so we can ensure regulatory compliance.

We’re proud to be committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds. 

AXA Insurance dac consider applicants on the basis of skills, experience & qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status.