Finance Assistant

Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognised for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the global nuclear fleet. The company designs, manufactures, and installs components, fuel and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants and offers a full range of reactor services.

With 14,000 employees worldwide, every day Framatomes expertise helps its customers improve the safety and performance of their nuclear plants and achieve their economic and societal goals.

Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI 19.5%)

In the UK we are currently over 300 strong and our plans are to grow to 400-500 by 2025 through the development our UK nuclear service offerings.

To complement our current Finance team, we are looking to recruit a Finance Assistant who will be involved with our month end and accounts payable activities.

Reporting to our Financial Controller, responsibilities will include:

Accounting

• Processing multi-currency invoices received from suppliers ensuring accurate data input.
• Ensure correct VAT coding.
• Checking invoices to ensure compliance with internal purchase to pay process.
• Monitoring finance inbox on a daily basis, dealing with supplier invoice and payment queries.
• Liaising with colleagues to maintain PO records and provide purchase transaction information as required.
• Requesting and reconciling supplier statements on a regular basis.
• Processing employee expenses through Concur SAP module.
• Preparing supplier payment runs for review and payment.
• Completing other ad hoc finance tasks as required.

Month End:

• Reconciliation of AP export to the trial balance and review for errors/issues.
• Monthly posting of depreciation within SAP.
• Reconciliation of the fixed assets to the trial balance.
• Involvement in the reconciliation of VAT accounts.
• Input to the accruals and prepayments schedules.
• Posting and reversal of journals to correspond with reconciliations.
• Analysis and review of costs incurred in month and comments on variances against budget.
• Analysis of spend per cost centre and elements of cost control.
• Creation of month end reports and pivots using data directly from SAP.
• Analysis and reports surrounding open purchase requests, purchase orders and goods receipts.
• Opportunity for involvement with the budget and forecasts.

To be considered, the suitable candidate will have previous experience within an accounting/ finance role. There is opportunity for growth, development and additional responsibilities in this role. Experience of SAP a distinct advantage.

In return, we are offering a competitive salary plus benefits to include:

• 25 days annual leave per year raising to 30 (x1 day for 2 years service).
• 8% Employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice) 1% min Employee.
• Individual and family private health care.
• Life assurance (4x salary).
• Employee assistance programme (EAP).
• Income Protection.
• Professional Body Membership (1 per year).
• Cycle to Work scheme.Access to language courses.
• Plus, more including access to training and development opportunities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix.

Everyone will be considered without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.