Financial Assistant

Finance Assistant

Client Description:

Our client, a property management software company, takes pride in its company, employees, partners, and clients. They prioritise fostering a positive, supportive, respectful, and enjoyable work culture for everyone involved. The client’s mission revolves around enhancing the working life of Property Managers by providing them with effective tools to manage their workload and serve their residents. This mission is believed to be achievable by providing staff with a supportive and innovative work environment that aligns with values of innovation, collaboration, quality, and rapid delivery.

Role Description:

The Finance Assistant role involves managing the Sales and Purchase Ledgers ensuring timely and accurate processing of customer and purchase invoices. This includes authorisation, processing, and payment in adherence to company procedures. The Finance Assistant also handles bank account reconciliations and provides basic management accounting support.

Finance Assistant General Activities:

• Maintain sales ledger, including entering all sales invoices into the accounting system, processing recurring invoices, customer receipts, and performing credit control.
• Maintain purchase ledger, including entering all purchase invoices, ensuring proper authorisation, making payments to suppliers, and addressing supplier queries.
• Bank reconciliation, processing customer receipts and supplier payments, reconciling bank accounts weekly.
• Management Accounts support, including assisting with prepayments and accruals, general journal entries, and drafting monthly accounts for review with the CFO.
• Support the business in meeting its vision, goals, targets, and objectives.
• Become a Super User for all products, ensuring the team is updated on product knowledge and documenting troubleshooting guides for new features.
• Work in accordance with ISO 27001 guidelines to protect the brand.

Platform Experience (Not Essential):

• MS Dynamics

Skills and Experience:

• Excellent written and verbal communication, manakging the public voice of the company to customers.
• Quick learning ability for new and complex software.
• Self-organising with strong time management skills.
• Ability to analyse and prioritise a fine-grained workload with attention to detail.
• Proactive with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Data management and analysis skills, including the use of Excel.
• Commitment to personal development and maintaining product and industry knowledge.
• Discretion, ensuring confidentiality of company and client information.
• Hands-on approach, as part of a small team, involvement in various tasks is expected.