Finance Assistant Part time - 22.5 hrs per week (Flexible working)
Your mission
The Role
The Finance Assistant reports to the Head of Finance and is responsible for assisting Automation Consultants’ financial responsibilities, including but not limited to payroll, accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR).
The role is part-time with an expectation of one day in the office per month.
Your profile
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Assist with payroll.
- Raising sales invoices
- Processing purchase invoices
- Allocating customer receipts to sales invoices
- Allocate supplier payments to invoices.
- Liaising with companies as required in order to respond to queries and resolve account settlement issues.
- Reconciling aged debtors
- Reconciling aged creditors
- Post credit card transactions
- Input credit card payment receipts
- Reconciling trade statements to outstanding invoices
- Respond to account queries, as necessary.
- Administration of PAYE, national insurance, SSP, commission etc., for employees
- Assist in maintaining company account system, Xero , with financial transactions, and customer, supplier, and new employee details.
Qualifications and Skills:
Essential
| Nice to have |
Previous experience in a similar position
| Qualified accountant (or working towards this) ACA, CIMA, AAT, or ACCA equivalent.
|
Experience with Payroll
| Experience using Jira and Confluence |
Strong analytical skills and high attention to detail to create reports, forecasts and budgets.
| Audit experience |
Excellent people skills, with the confidence to communicate with clients.
| Experience within the tech industry. |
Extremely organised with an ability to manage numerous accounts effectively.
| Experience with Excel Macros |
Strong IT Skills and experience using payroll management systems, preferably Xero.
Why us?
Salary and Benefits: £16,500 – 22,500 Per Annum
• 33 days holiday pro rata (including bank holidays)• Private Healthcare
• Dental insurance
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity plans.
• Pension Scheme
• Dedicated ongoing training plan and budget.
• Flexible working hours and environment
• Access to the Electric Car Scheme
• Automation Consultant’s Cycle to Work Scheme
• Onsite gym, showers, yoga lessons and more.
We know that here at Automation Consultants, our team members are the best in the industry. So, we do everything we can to take care of them. We offer ongoing training and professional development, tailored to the individual’s ambitions, as well as creating a team that learn from one another.
About us
Automation Consultants is a leading agile and DevOps consultancy with a complementary software arm. Our consultancy services dedicated to improving our customers’ business performance through digital and agile transformation and automation of software development processes. Our software, which is sold under the AppFox name, complements these services. We are specialists in Atlassian and AWS, delivering industry-recognised automation solutions, software and managed services. Our customers range from start-ups to global organisations.
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