Finance Assistant/Accounts Payable

Posted 18 April by Venus Recruitment Ltd
£25,000 - £30,000 per annum
Farnham , Surrey
Permanent, full-time

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Posted by Venus Recruitment Ltd
Exciting new opportunity for a ‘hands-on’ Finance Assistant to join a fun, award winning business. Reporting to the Finance and Ops Director, you will be joining a small team looking after a busy purchase ledger.
Duties involved:
  • Running the full purchase ledger function, from posting invoices through to making payments, posting cash and reconciling afterwards.
  • Undertaking all transactional tasks including expenses, credit and pre-paid cards, petty cash etc.
  • Running creditor reports and staying in control of financial spending, ensuring accurate information is entered into the reporting structures.
  • Looking after the administrative tasks for the department too - ensuring the team are up to date with running the department, the projects and the suppliers. Assisting where you can, ensuring procedures and processes are efficient.
  • Assisting the team with month end processes.
  • Dealing with any ad-hoc finance queries in a professional and timely manner.
  • Being a people person, you will be liaising with the wider team ensuring purchase orders, approvals and time bookings are in place.
  • Actively look to improve systems and processes to ensure operations are efficient.
  • Ensure accuracy of transactional postings from POs to payments
  • Monitor cash flow and ensure payments are made responsibly and on time.
  • Ensure adherence to relevant accounting standards
Qualifications, Experience & Skills:
  • Able to handle a fast paced, everchanging environment. Experience of working across multiple projects is a plus
  • Able to keep calm under pressure and keep a level head when the work load is high.
  • Super organised and have fantastic attention to detail, can make improvements and see your ideas through to completion.
  • Emotional intelligence, reliable, trustworthy and have excellent communication and time management skills.
  • Possess outstanding work ethics, integrity and professionalism.
  • Resilience and confidence to challenge as appropriate.
  • You have a good working knowledge of financial packages such as Microsoft Office, Google Workspace and Sage 50
What’s on offer:
  • Up to 5% matched pension contributions
  • Private health insurance for you and your family
  • Travel insurance
  • 25 days annual leave including Christmas shut down (3 days)
  • Extra day off for your birthday
  • Company laptop
Please only apply to this vacancy if you live within 12 miles of Farnham. This is an office based role and we are unable to provide visa sponsorship

Application question

Do you live within 12 miles of Farnham, Surrey?

Reference: 52501454

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