Finance Assistant

AAC Clyde Space is seeking a Finance Assistant to join our team in Glasgow, providing day-to-day support in financial operations and projects. This offers a great opportunity for someone to have broad exposure to finance within a project-driven, global SME, providing an excellent foundation for progression within accounting and finance. The role is responsible for delivering accurate and timely transactional finance support and executing core financial processes—including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, ensuring accurate processing and strong financial controls while supporting project financial tracking and the month-end close. The role is predominately based on site. The nature of the role will require occasional ‘out of hours’ work to meet deadlines in line with monthly, quarterly and annual business activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Process purchase invoices, ensuring accuracy, correct coding, and timely approval.
• Process employee expenses and supplier payments.
• Maintain supplier and customer master data, including bank details that have gone through appropriate verification.
• Raise sales invoices, post cash receipts, reconcile customer accounts and support credit control activity.
• Support bank allocations and control account reconciliations, and monitor cash flow positions.
• Monitor finance inboxes/workflows, ensuring queries are logged, prioritised and resolved within agreed timescales.
• Timesheet management and coordination, including actively tracking and collating weekly/monthly timesheets from all staff.
• Review all timesheets for accuracy and completeness, ensuring correct project codes, hours, and descriptions are used.
• Maintain timesheet system – set up new users and project codes, configure approval workflows.
• Compare actual hours recorded on timesheets against forecasted/budgeted hours for specific projects or departments.
• MRP Housekeeping - Regularly review open sales orders in the MRP system and close out completed ones, along with purchase order review and close out.

Skills required:

• Previous experience in a finance or accounts role with a good understanding of end-to-end transaction processing.
• Good working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and basic financial controls.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with high attention to detail and excellent communication.
• Familiarity with MRP/Finance software (e.g. Sage 50).
• Proficiency and confidence in Microsoft Excel (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, and reconciliations) and finance systems/ERPs.
• High standards of integrity and confidentiality when handling financial and personal data.
• High attention to detail, with consistent and disciplined documentation practices within a high-volume environment.
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation; comfortable with multiple concurrent workstreams/multiple projects in a dynamic environment and tight deadlines.
• Competent IT skills including Microsoft software.
• Proficient in English, both verbally and written.

Skills desired:

• Relevant degree or equivalent work experience, or working towards a relevant qualification.
• Previous experience of working with small/medium sized company.