Finance and HR Assistant

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Finance & HR Assistant to join a well-established company.

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent.

Location: Tadcaster LS24.

Salary: £25,000 - £32,000 Per Annum, Negotiable Depending on Experience.

About The Company:

They are a specialist engineering and fabrication business, delivering high quality solutions to meet the most challenging situations for leading global brands, including a large number of blue-chip companies.

Offering a full range of fabricated steelwork in mild steel, stainless steel and aluminium and have an extensive range of facilities on site, meaning they have total control over quality, delivery and lead times. They work closely with their clients to understand their needs and create bespoke solutions, from concept design to on-site fitting.

They are now looking to recruit an Experienced Finance & HR Assistant to join their busy team.

About The Role:

Responsible for providing administrative support across the Finance and Human Resource (HR) functions. Processing and maintaining accounts payable and accounts receivable for good cashflow management, alongside supporting of general ledger activity. Assist with HR functions including payroll, recruitment, onboarding and employee records.

Requirements & Duties:

• Ensure the accurate and timely processing of invoices and orders
• Correspond with customers and suppliers to resolve any queries with AR & AP
• Maintain accounts payable and accounts receivable on SAGE 50 accounting software
• Produce a supplier payments schedule according to agreed terms
• Run credit checks and support any credit control activities
• Prepare and manage excel management reports for cashflow forecast, budgets, and any other financial data to identify trends
• Provide administration support for recruitment activities which may include: posting job adverts, liaising with candidates, preparing o??er letters and drafting employment contracts (from company templates)
• Ensure document templates are maintained and kept up-to-date, including drafting and maintaining processes and work instruction documents
• Ensuring staff records are well maintained and that periodic tidying up of records is undertaken
• Manage and coordinate responses to enquiries via HR and Finance’s generic email accounts
• Collate, prepare and submit accurate and timely fortnightly payroll, and pension data to outsourced payroll provider
• Organise the administration of employee benefit schemes
• Monitor sickness & absence (from company systems); providing management reports and flagging any concerns
• Support the finance & administration manager in the running of the department
• Undertake any other work that may be reasonably required from time to time, in accordance with the company’s policies and values

Measures of Performance:

• Cashflow management and accuracy (AP / AR)
• HR data accuracy
• Customer Service & Feedback

Qualifications and Experience:

• Required: Strong knowledge of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions
• Required: Strong knowledge of Payroll and HR data administration
• Required: Good proficiency in MS Office products, especially MS Excel.
• Preferable: Some experience of working with SAGE 50 Accounting Software
• Preferable: Qualifications in Finance / HR like AAT or CIPD

Competencies and Behaviours:

• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build rapport with a diverse group of employees
• Good communication skills both written and verbal. Able to confidently convey information and provide assistance in a clear manner
• Well organised, methodical, with good attention to detail
• Able to multi-task and work to deadlines
• Diplomatic and discreet - can demonstrate an awareness of how to manage confidentiality in an HR/Finance setting
• Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Team player with positive attitude
• Flexible approach to work with the ability to work in a changing environment
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Likes working with and improving processes

If you feel that you have the relative skills/attributes to fulfil this role then please apply now!

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability. The employer welcomes applications from all candidates who match their requirements and their decision for employment will be based purely on your skills/qualifications.