Finance Assistant – Graduates Welcome

Salary: £26,000 – £31,200 per year

Finance Assistant – Graduates Welcome
MediaCity, Greater Manchester (currently home-based)
 
The Company
 
Vaioni is a Multi-Award-Winning Network Operator, delivering the best and most reliable internet connectivity, security and voice solutions, to SME, Mid-Market and Technology Partners.
 
Headquartered in MediaCity, the company owns and operates V.E.N., a Carrier Grade, National Ethernet Network, connecting over 250,000 postcodes across the UK and is integrated with all the major UK Ethernet providers including BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk Business, owning one of the biggest Ethernet Platforms in the country.
 
Recognised as one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Tech Firms in the North, we have experienced strong year-on-year growth, with the business now supporting more than 2,000 services, across 600+ customers globally.
 
We are currently looking for a Finance Assistant to join our team.
 
The Benefits
 
– Competitive salary DOE
– 25 days’ holiday (+ Public Holidays)
– Annual discretionary performance bonus
– Pension contribution
– Health care cash back plan
– Collaborative work environment
– Free breakfast and fruit and snacks throughout the day*
– Regular breaks
– Finish at 5pm on a Friday with drinks
– Regular work nights out*
– Financial well-being support
– Your birthday off 
– Option to buy/sell holiday
– Flexible hours
– Working from home
– Volunteering days
 
*When we are able to welcome staff back to our HQ
 
This is an exciting opportunity for an organised and attentive finance professional or graduate to develop their skills and experience with a hugely successful Network Operator.
 
You’ll be joining a positive work environment, where we value our employees and invest in their future. We’ll help you reach your full potential by developing your skills and ensuring you have the tools you need to succeed.
 
What’s more, with our extensive benefits package, we’ll help you to maintain your focus and build a strong work/life balance to support your well-being.
 
The Role
 
As a Finance Assistant, you will deliver a range of day-to-day finance tasks such as credit control, transactional processing and supplier audits.
 
Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will manage supplier audits and disputes, ensuring invoicing is accurate and support the team with all aspects of customer information and billing.
 
Additionally, your role will involve:
 
– Supporting credit control activities
– Assisting in collections from difficult accounts
– Liaising with suppliers to resolve finance queries and disputed invoices
– Maintaining full audit trails of communications and agreements
– Managing all aspects of supplier information, supplier invoicing and payment runs
– Processing supplier invoices and maintaining accurate and timely records
– Processing and controlling staff expenses
 
About You
 
To join us as Finance Assistant, you will need:
 
– A degree in Finance or a related equivalent business qualification or substantial specific Finance experience
– Experience of communicating with senior internal and external stakeholders
– To be fully PC literate and be able to use Microsoft Excel at an intermediate or advanced level
– A high level grasp of English language (first language or business fluency)
– A full and clean driving licence
 
Experience of using Xero on all aspects of day-to-day processing and preparation of monthly management accounts journals would be beneficial to your application, as would experience in the reconciliation and control of balance sheet accounts.
 
Credit control experience and experience of managing day-to-day working capital would also be advantageous.
Other organisations may call this role Finance Administrator, Accounts Assistant, Accounts Clerk, Finance Clerk, Accounts Administrator, Ledger Clerk, Accounts Co-ordinator, or Finance Co-ordinator.
 
Webrecruit and Vaioni Group Ltd are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
 
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