Finance Assistant in United Kingdom

Job title: Finance Assistant

Department: Finance

Location: Home Based with occasional travel

Hours: 37.5 hrs/week

Salary: Up to 27k dependent on experience

We’re looking for a Finance Assistant to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.

**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

Supporting the finance team with collecting and recording financial information, including general administration tasks, processing supplier invoices, statement reconciliations, assisting with payment runs, chasing supplier invoices and ensuring all payments are received and allocated accordingly.

Key responsibilities

• Accurate processing and reviewing of a high volume of supplier invoices within payment terms.

• Reconciling supplier statements – accurately reconciling payments and invoices for suppliers to ensure the month end process runs as smoothly as possible. A high number of statements must be fully reconciled at month end.

• Investigating supplier queries and queries from multiple sites within the business.

• Chasing supplier invoices and credit notes timely and effectively.

• Assisting the finance team with customer enquiries and allocations.

• Assisting with supplier payment runs.

• General Administration duties.

• Answering phone calls and dealing with enquiries effectively.

Skills and experience

• AAT Studier (Preferred)

• Excellent customer service skills

• Ability to handle inbound and outbound calls daily

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to manage own time and workload

• Maths and English GCSE at grade C/4 or above

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups

• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay

• Life assurance: three times basic salary

• Amazing Christmas & Summer parties

• Free breakfasts and fruit

• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you’re at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices or working from home, we’ll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

We also love to have fun together, and our whole company summer and Christmas parties are pretty legendary!

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK’s largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone’s bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.

• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.

• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.