Finance Assistant

3 weeks ago

Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Kiwa UK Central Services Buckinghamshire Full time

**Job Summary**

Kiwa UK is looking for an enthusiastic Finance Assistant to join the UK Finance Team on a fixed term 6 month contract. This role involves providing overall finance support to our Business Units. This role will be located in Aylesbury with Hybrid Working. Kiwa, is a global top 20 leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification. Our company motto is: We create trust. We want you to trust us with becoming your employer of choice. We offer excellent training and development opportunities, the freedom to do your job as you see fit and we are a respectful and diverse company that employs over 10,000 Kiwans worldwide.

**About the role**

Reporting to the Corporate Financial Controller Team Leader, the Finance Assistant will provide support to the UK Business in all areas of transactional support. A collaborative self-starter with a keen eye for detail, the Accounts Assistant is a valued partner to both the wider Finance Team and to the Business Units the role supports.

Daily Activities:

- Complete daily cashbook transactions and bank reconciliations.
- Process purchase invoices efficiently and compliantly.
- Ensure VAT is correctly accounted for in all purchase transactions.
- Audit and process employee expenses & company credit card expenses.
- Complete payments to suppliers using our banking platform, including sending remittances.
- Post accurate accruals, prepayments, other manual journals to ensure an accurate balance sheet and P&L each month.
- Provide support to Business Units, including supplier set ups, purchase requisitions and supplier invoice queries
- Maintain clean ledgers, managing unallocated cash (and other unusual balances), ledger settlements and reconciling items.

Culture Activities:

- Work with the Corporate Financial Controller Team Leader to support the Ledger team and provide support across different Business units, and cover periods of holiday in the team.
- Support the successful integration of acquired businesses and new systems.
- Help to ensure a safe working environment for both physical and mental health.
- Bring a dynamic, driven and motivated approach to the Company and support the introduction of changes in culture required to maintain Kiwa at the leading edge of our field.

**Do you have what it takes?**
- Accounts payable experience is essential for this role and a good working knowledge of accounting systems - additional experience in cashbooks/banking, auditing expenses/credit cards and accruals and prepayments would be desirable due to the diversity of the role.
- The ability to deliver to tight timescales and deadlines consistently.
- Strong day to day planning and organisational skills.
- Dynamism, aptitude for problem solving and teamwork, practical approach, reliable, flexible, and results oriented.
- Good communication skills and interpersonal relations at all levels.
- The ability to engage and influence colleagues to achieve common goals and objectives.

**What can you expect from us in return?**
- £28,600 per annum
- 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Hybrid working
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- Family Leave - generous enhanced maternity/adoption/shared parental leave - first 6 months full pay maternity/adoption and shared parental leave & 2 weeks full pay paternity leave
- Welcome pack
- Enhanced Pension
- Life Assurance (4x Annual Salary)
- EAP - Free, independent Employee Assistance Programme, offering confidential information, support, advice and counselling, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
- Eye Care Vouchers

**Why work at Kiwa?**

We achieve results. Our values run through our business; ‘We ARE Kiwa’, Ambitious, Reliable and Engaged. That is how we interact not only with our colleagues and customers, but everyone we meet. We embrace the personal development of all our colleagues, we will encourage you to be ambitious, explore new ideas and help make our world a safer, more sustainable place. You will work within an organization that is very dynamic and in which you have all the space to maximally develop yourself.

Kiwa is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We fully take advantage of the flexibility we have to hire Kiwan’s from around the world and from any background. We give our team a work environment free from prejudice, discrimination, and intimidation so they can do their best work and live happy lives. Inclusivity and equality are important to us, and we don’t tolerate behaviours that don’t follow these values.

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