Finance Assistant

7 months ago

Southampton, United Kingdom Bamboo Limited Full time

**Reports to**:Finance Manager

**Location**:Central Southampton

**Hours**:Full time role, 37.5 hours per week

**Benefits**:Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme, Discretionary Bonus (based on individual and company performance), Life Cover (4x basic salary), 22 days holiday (increases by 1 day per each completed year of service, up to a maximum of 25 days) Perkbox, Dental Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme.

**The Company**

Bamboo is an award-winning fintech - new in design and spirit but at the same time a mature consumer finance business. We have over £500 million of lending under our belt since we first started back in 2014. We hunkered down at the start of the Covid pandemic to ensure we did the right thing by our customers and protected the business - we are back growing fast again and have big ambitions.

We are passionate about customer service and proud and humbled that we have an 'Excellent' Trustpilot score of 4.9, which is rare in the financial services industry. We have won many industry awards, such as the ‘’Consumer Credit Awards’’ award for ‘Best Personal Loan Provider’ in 2017, 2018,2019 and 2021 and the Lending Awards’ ‘Customer Service Excellence - Alternative Lending’ award in 2019. In 2021, we won the ‘’Treating Customers Fairly Champion’’ award in the Consumer Credit Awards. We are very proud of this recognition and feel that it shows our commitment to offering superb service.

We know we must continue to work hard to provide a great service to our customers and continue to maintain their trust and loyalty and keep at the cutting edge of innovation in our sector. There are nearly 100 of us at Bamboo, primarily based in London (near Waterloo) and Southampton (also on top of the central station) and at home

The Bamboo culture is the heart of our business, we actively promote and encourage a family and team ethos amongst all of our colleagues and peers, no matter what your role is within the company. We often arrange social events such as summer barbeques, quiz nights, team building events and Christmas parties, so that everyone in the business can get to know each other.

Our aim is to invite the best people to be a part of our growing team, to fit in with our friendly and relaxed culture and to provide you with everything you need to grow with us as we explore and expand into new adventures.

We are always expanding our fintech to ensure we provide our team with the best possible tools to do their jobs. We are always looking for ways to improve, from creating a flexible CRM system to manage our accounts specifically created for our needs and procedures, to using the best integrated telephony system to efficiently contact our customers.

**The Role**

The role will support our small finance team with various finance administrative tasks and is being recruited on a full-time, permanent basis.

The role requires an individual who is happy to work in a small team but who is also a confident self-starter, who is keen to grow and develop and will proactively recommend improvements to current processes.

The finance team are currently working on a hybrid basis, being office-based for 3 days of the week and home-based for 2 days of the week. These working arrangements are discretionary and may be reviewed at any time based on the needs of the business and external factors, so the role-holder needs the ability to be office-based for all working days if needed.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:
Provide general administrative support to the whole company including, but not limited to:

- Purchase invoice processing and making supplier payments
- Supplier and Merchant statement reconciliations
- Daily bank reconciliations and cash book journals
- Daily customer loan payments
- Petty cash management
- Commission calculations and payments
- Reconciliation of daily cash sweep calculations
- Assistance with the preparation of month end schedules, such as prepayments and accruals
- Other ad hoc duties as required

**Communication**

Frequent and on-going communication with:

- Finance Manager and the Finance Team
- Operations management and team leaders
- Directors and Shareholders

**Skills and Experience Needed**

**Essential**
- AAT qualified or part-qualified (or equivalent);
- Some previous experience in a finance team;
- Self-disciplined and organised;
- Excellent attention to detail;
- Confident user of Excel, Word and Outlook;
- Be able to prioritise tasks effectively and work well under pressure;
**Desirable**
- Experience within the financial services sector
- **We are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic**_

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced m

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