Finance Assistant/Accounts Payable

  • Farnham
  • £25000 - £30000 per annum
  • Full-Time

Exciting new opportunity for a ‘hands-on’ Finance Assistant to join a fun, award winning business. Reporting to the Finance and Ops Director, you will be joining a small team looking after a busy purchase ledger.
Duties involved:

  • Running the full purchase ledger function, from posting invoices through to making payments, posting cash and reconciling afterwards.
  • Undertaking all transactional tasks including expenses, credit and pre-paid cards, petty cash etc.
  • Running creditor reports and staying in control of financial spending, ensuring accurate information is entered into the reporting structures.
  • Looking after the administrative tasks for the department too – ensuring the team are up to date with running the department, the projects and the suppliers. Assisting where you can, ensuring procedures and processes are efficient.
  • Assisting the team with month end processes.
  • Dealing with any ad-hoc finance queries in a professional and timely manner.
  • Being a people person, you will be liaising with the wider team ensuring purchase orders, approvals and time bookings are in place.
  • Actively look to improve systems and processes to ensure operations are efficient.
  • Ensure accuracy of transactional postings from POs to payments
  • Monitor cash flow and ensure payments are made responsibly and on time.
  • Ensure adherence to relevant accounting standards

Qualifications, Experience & Skills:

  • Able to handle a fast paced, everchanging environment. Experience of working across multiple projects is a plus
  • Able to keep calm under pressure and keep a level head when the work load is high.
  • Super organised and have fantastic attention to detail, can make improvements and see your ideas through to completion.
  • Emotional intelligence, reliable, trustworthy and have excellent communication and time management skills.
  • Possess outstanding work ethics, integrity and professionalism.
  • Resilience and confidence to challenge as appropriate.
  • You have a good working knowledge of financial packages such as Microsoft Office, Google Workspace and Sage 50

What’s on offer:

  • Up to 5% matched pension contributions
  • Private health insurance for you and your family
  • Travel insurance
  • 25 days annual leave including Christmas shut down (3 days)
  • Extra day off for your birthday
  • Company laptop

Please only apply to this vacancy if you live within 12 miles of Farnham. This is an office based role and we are unable to provide visa sponsorship

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