Finance Admin Assistant

**We’re hiringFinance Admin Assistant**
**To join our aspiring practice support team.**

Looking to join a reputable firm with a great culture? Interested? Let’s have a conversation contact Hannah Sharpe.

**Our practice**
Ashgates is a progressive, proactive and friendly accountancy and advisory practice with over 80 people based at Pride Park, Derby. Established in 1990 the firm has grown incredibly over the years attracting talented experts providing a broad range of support and advice to businesses and individuals, locally, nationally and overseas. We pride ourselves on client service, building strong relationships that succeed expectation. In addition to our wide range of accountancy and business advisory services we provide independent financial advice and specialist IT advisory services making Ashgates more competitive than ever before.

**Admin Assistant**

You will join our well established practice support team on a part time basis, up to 25 hours per week Monday to Friday, hours negotiable and variable school holiday hours considered.

The role involves providing efficient and accurate administrative finance support, office secretarial and reception duties. Key responsibilities include posting, producing credit notes and bills on our CCH software, purchase ledger posting, recording and sending cheques and taking credit card payments.

Office duties include scanning post daily onto our electronic filing system. You will also assist with cover for our first class reception team providing a professional first impression to all our clients both face to face and over the telephone. You will be an excellent communicator arranging meeting rooms, offering refreshments, answering and announcing incoming telephone calls and taking accurate detailed messages. Providing administrative support to the business ordering and replenishing stock.

Values are of huge importance so to join the team you will need to demonstrate approachability, your commitment to client service, relationship building and problem solving. We encourage and support everyone to find their purpose at Ashgates and achieve their personal development dreams.

**Our people**
Our team culture encourages all our people to contribute to Ashgates, enhancing the diverse environment in which we work and the solutions and best practice we provide for clients. We recruit people on the potential they show for the future, drawing on the widest possible range of talents and backgrounds to bring fresh perspectives. Collaborating with a supportive team of professionals allows all our people the best possible platform to develop their careers.

**Our benefits**
Our long standing relationships with our clients is based upon our ability to retain our people who deliver continuous performance year on year. In appreciation of that performance we recognise our people’s achievements tailoring benefits year on year. Some of our benefits include VIP career & personal development plans, generous holiday allowance, hybrid & flexible working, health & wellbeing support.
- VIP career & personal development plans
- Holidays starting from 33 days
- Health & wellbeing support packages
- Christmas & new year office closure
- Charity events
- Social events
- Sports teams
- Pension scheme
- Hybrid working, core days Tues & Wed
- Flexitime from 7:30am to 5:30pm
- Company sick pay & life insurance schemes
- Paid overtime or time off in lieu

**How to apply**

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 25 per week

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Derby, DE24 8HG: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)