Finance Assistant

Location: Wotton-Under-Edge

Hybrid working: 3 days/week on site

Salary: up to £30,000 depending on experience

Reports to: EMEA Finance Manager

Renishaw UK Sales is recruiting for a Finance Assistant to work in our newly established regional finance hub, supporting operations across the EMEA region. We are seeking a motivated, proactive and detail-orientated individual to join our growing team.  

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone early in their finance career to gain hands on experience across various areas of finance, while working within an international business environment.

As one of the first members of the regional hub, you will have a unique opportunity to help shape the teams' operations, develop a broad range of finance skills, and grow your career within Renishaw's global finance functions.

Given the new and evolving nature of the team, this role will be dynamic and varied, with responsibilities that may change as the hub grows and processes become established.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities may include, but will not be limited to, the following:

• Purchase Ledger: processing purchase ledger invoices, preparing payment runs and resolving discrepancies.

• Sales Ledger: chasing overdue payments and assisting with credit control activities.

• General Ledger: Processing journals, reconciling ledgers and supporting accruals & prepayments.  

• Bank Reconciliations: Ensuring transactions are recorded accurately and reconciling multiple bank accounts in various currencies.

• Supporting with month-end closing procedures.

• Supporting the preparation of management accounts by providing accurate financial data.

• Using accounting software and other financial applications (e.g. Microsoft D365, Power BI etc) for data entry and reporting.

• Helping with ERP system implementation projects as the finance hub scales.

About you

• Basic understanding of general accounting principles and double-entry bookkeeping.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and comfortable working with financial systems or ERP tools.

• A proactive, curious mindset with a willingness to learn and take on new challenges.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a regional multicultural team.

• Studying towards or interested in pursuing a professional accounting qualification (AAT, ACCA, CIMA etc).

Working at Renishaw

At Renishaw, we are committed to creating a supportive, flexible and inclusive environment where employees feel valued and empowered. We believe that the best ideas come from teams made up of individuals with different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences so please apply and come as you are

If you feel that you don't meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we'd still love to hear from you.

What we offer

• Opportunity to grow within a newly established regional finance hub.

• Broad exposure to multiple areas of accounting and finance.

• Professional development and study support.

• Collaborative, inclusive and international working environment.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

Benefits 

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

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At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.
 
If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don't meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.
 
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