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Finance Assistant - £22.5k- £26k - Southwell, Nottinghamshire
Benjamin Edwards are recruiting for a Finance Assistant. This is a great opportunity to further develop your career within accounts, working for a friendly, profitable, and growing business. This is an exciting role where the successful candidate will work closely alongside the Finance Manager, as well as being a pivotal support for all other teams within the business. As Finance Assistant, you will be instrumental in providing a high-quality service to the rest of the team. You will contribute to the high standard required of accounting practices within the finance function and play a key part in the delivery and assisting other departments to meet the company’s needs.
What’s on offer to the Finance Assistant
- Annual, non-contractual bonus for meeting company targets
- Regular training provided
- Company pension scheme
- 20 days holidays per year plus 8 bank holidays - rising by 1 day per year, to a maximum of 25, following completion of 2 full years’ service
- Full Christmas shutdown period
- Free parking on site
- Friendly team with regular social events
The role of Finance Assistant
- Supporting the Finance Manager as deemed necessary, including with provision of finance information to assist the business
- Responsibility for day-to-day credit control management and collection of customer debt
- Creating new customer and supplier accounts on Sage
- Processing sales orders on Sage
- Raising sales invoices and applications for payments
- Uploading invoices onto customer portals as required
- Raising purchase orders in Sage
- Inputting supplier invoices, validating nominal coding and matching POD’s
- Processing bank/cash payments and receipts onto Sage
- Maintaining the Sage system with updates
- Processing of credit card expenses onto Excel and Sage
- Keeping product costs up to date on Sage
- Maintaining the sales orders spreadsheet
- Keeping the CRM system up to date
- Assist with general finance team duties, answering the telephone, filing, and dealing with enquiries both internally and externally
The ideal candidate for the role of Finance Assistant
- AAT Level 2 minimum
- At least 2 years relevant recent experience within a company finance team
- Proven recent experience in credit control responsibility
- High level of competency with MS Office, notably Excel
