Finance Assistant
Location: Market Harborough, Leicestershire
Working Hours: Monday–Friday Full time
Salary: £30,000
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We’re recruiting for a Finance Assistant to join a business based in Market Harborough. This is a broad finance position suited to someone who already has a solid grounding in transactional finance and is looking to continue developing their experience across month-end, management accounts and wider finance activities.
Reporting to the Finance Manager, you’ll take ownership of key day-to-day finance processes across the group while supporting cash flow forecasting, credit control, reporting, compliance and finance improvement projects.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Processing purchase invoices and raising sales invoices and credit notes
- Posting and allocating bank payments, receipts and ledger transactions
- Maintaining accurate purchase and sales ledgers
- Preparing supplier payment runs and uploading payments for approval
- Completing bank and petty cash reconciliations
- Processing employee expenses and company credit card transactions
- Producing aged debtor reports and carrying out credit control
- Following up overdue balances and resolving customer and supplier queries
- Updating weekly cash flow forecasts with actual and expected movements
- Supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts and finance packs
- Preparing balance sheet reconciliations, including accruals, prepayments and fixed assets
- Posting journals and supporting the month-end close
- Assisting with revenue, cost, margin and project reporting
- Supporting VAT returns, year-end requirements and statutory audit preparation
- Assisting with P11D preparation and other routine finance compliance
- Supporting finance process improvements, system development and automation initiatives
You’ll ideally have:
- AAT qualification and be actively studying towards ACCA or CIMA
- At least two years’ relevant finance/accounting experience
- Good hands-on experience using accounting/finance systems
- Strong Excel skills, including PivotTables and lookup formulas
- Experience across transactional finance with the confidence to take on broader month-end responsibilities
- Good communication skills when dealing with customers, suppliers and internal colleagues
- Strong organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage competing deadlines
Submit your CV to apply.
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