Finance Assistant

**A new Finance Assistant (12-month placement) opportunity has arisen within our fast-growing company. This role is designed for a university student undertaking a placement year as part of their degree, offering the chance to gain hands-on experience. It provides valuable exposure to core financial processes, analysis, and reporting in a commercial environment, helping to build practical skills that complement academic studies.**:
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**LOCATION: Holly Road Head Offices, Skegness, Lincolnshire**:
**JOB TITLE: Finance Assistant (12-month placement)**:
**JOB TYPE: Full Time**:
**HOURS OF WORK: Monday to Friday - 09:00 - 17:00 (with half an hour unpaid lunch break)**

**SALARY: £24,570 per annum**:
**JOB PURPOSE**:
The placement student will provide support to the Finance department by assisting with weekly and monthly reporting, reconciliations, and variance analysis, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of financial information. The role involves documenting key processes, identifying opportunities for efficiency improvements, and contributing to stronger financial controls. Through exposure to core Finance operations, the placement student will develop technical, analytical, and process improvement skills, supporting the department’s long-term succession pipeline.

**Key Responsibilities to include**:
Short-term projects:

- Assist with weekly turnover and cost of sales reporting.
- Support month-end journal postings and reconciliations.
- Conduct variance analysis on key accounts and highlight discrepancies.
- Document current Finance processes for reporting and reconciliations.

Long-term projects:

- Lead small process improvement initiatives to streamline reporting and reduce manual effort.
- Develop insight packs for the Finance Manager, highlighting trends, variances, and opportunities.
- Contribute to enhancements in month-end and weekly account workflows.

**Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications required**:
Essential

- Strong numeracy and analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and general data management tools.
- Strong problem-solving and process improvement abilities.
- Ability to produce accurate reports and conduct effective variance analysis.
- Good communication and organisational skills.
- A proactive attitude and a strong desire to learn and contribute within a professional Finance environment.

Desirable

- Studying towards a degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.

**Character Profile**

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**_ Interview date: week commencing Monday 8_**_th_**_ and 15_**_th_**_ December 2025_**

**Why Work for Micronclean as a Finance Assistant (12-month placement)**

There are many reasons to join the Micronclean family, but here are just a few more:

- A generous yearly bonus paid every January, to all staff.
- Living allowance of up to £2,000 (if applicable)
- 30 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 33 days for loyalty service.
- Company Sick Pay scheme.

- Company pension contributions of 5% of salary.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), private counselling and other schemes to support employees with their mental health and wellbeing.
- A growing, family owned, highly successful business, with a history spanning back to the 1920s.
- Highly committed to investing in people and training, with a proven history of opportunities and promotions from within for employees who wish to progress.
- A great culture, represented in our company values known as the SKIEs.
- The knowledge that you are making a difference, playing a role in key supply chains such as the Covid-19 vaccine.

**About Micronclean**

Micronclean is a family-owned business based in Lincolnshire employing over 400 people. The company provides products and services to various industries.

Our current focus areas include rental of specialist work wear to cleanroom industries (pharmaceutical, medical devices, aerospace), and of protective workwear to manufacturing industries (engineering, automotive). The company also manufactures and distributes a range of cleanroom products, which it sells in the UK and exports throughout Europe and further afield, including India, Australia, and Canada.

The company has an ambitious vision for growth both in the UK where we are investing in all our plants and abroad where our plant in Bangalore, India has recently been commissioned and is supporting the production of Covid-19 vaccines in India.

More information about Micronclean can be found on our website, please click here.