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