Senior Finance Assistant

Role: Senior Finance Assistant

Company: Media/ Publishing & Production

Location: London - Hybrid

Salary: £32,000 - £35,000 DoE

Reference: VisionFR 3160

VisionFRis helping to recruit for anSenior Finance Assistanton behalf of a leading publishing & production company. You’ll join a vibrant and fast paced environment. You must have strong hands-on end-to-end Purchase Ledger experience and have the ability to make decisions and understand the bigger picture.

Senior Finance Assistant Duties:

• Management of 2 x Accounts Payable Inboxes
• Maintenance of supplier ledger to ensure best practices are being followed
• Collaborate on the businesses 13-week cash flow forecast - updated weekly by AP & AR
• Overseeing the processing of high volume of purchase invoices per month onto the accounting system, ensuring that entity, currency, account codes, project numbers, discounts, and payment terms (etc.) are correct
• Identify prepayments and manage accordingly
• Respond to questions and makes calls regarding supplier invoicing problems; acts as a liaison between departments and suppliers where appropriate
• Ensuring the smooth operation of weekly payment runs
• Aged Creditor reporting - Monitoring monthly
• Providing support for daily bank postings to ensure payment processing.
• Ensuring accurate and timely completion of month-end closing processes for accounts payable.
• Assisting with audit requests and providing necessary documentation and support.
• New Vendor creation process - Contact details, company registration and VAT validation
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Process all staff expenses, ensuring strict adherence to company policies and UK regulations.
• Credit card and Pleo account reconciliation

Key Skills and Experience Required:

• Experience in using Sage Intacct or a similar financial ERP system such as Netsuite, SAP or Workday
• Experience of working in a busy AP environment
• Ideally a history of working within the creative industries - ideally production, media or publishing.
• Experience working for a multi-entity group with multiple revenue streams
• Multi-Currency, FX and VAT knowledge
• Intermediate to advanced level of Excel skills
• Proficient in working independently
• Familiarity with accounting processes and protocols.
• Possesses strong organisational skills and excellent time management abilities.
• Applies analytical and logical problem-solving methods effectively.
• Capable of working under pressure, meeting targets, and adhering to deadlines.
• Effective communication skills.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working policy (currently 2 days in the office 3 from home)
• 20 days annual leave plus time off between Christmas and New Year (not deducted from your annual leave allowance)
• Extra days annual leave for each year of service (up to 5)
• An extra day off in your birthday month
• A volunteer day each year
• Enhanced family leave benefits
• Company discounts including gyms, retailers and hotels
• Subscription to Medicash contributing to the cost of health and wellbeing services

VisionFRis committed to encouraging equality, diversity, inclusion and eliminating unlawfuldiscrimination within our workforce and whilst fulfilling our Client recruitment needs.

Due to the high level of applications being received if you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion, usually due to other candidates having more relevant sector exposure, qualifications or required skills. We thank you for your interest.