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Finance Assistant

1 month ago

Stockport UK, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Fuller Research Group Full time

As Finance Assistant, you will be reporting to the Head of Finance as part of a small team, and will be responsible for a wide range of Finance tasks such as purchase ledger, bank reconciliations, payments, setting up customer and supplier accounts, credit control and assisting with month end tasks.


Business: Fuller Research Group, with locations in Manchester and Stockport, is part of a group of businesses providing market research services. Our companies provide participant recruitment, fieldwork services and manage viewing facilities.


Every year we manage hundreds of research projects across the country, helping our clients to make meaningful connections with their consumers and gain valuable insights. We deliver projects on a wide range of subjects from investments and sustainability to shopping habits and toilet rolls, there isn’t a topic we don’t cover


Role & Responsibilities:

  • Raising sales orders and generating sales invoices
  • Managing invoice queries and liaising with our Project Managers to enable them to be resolved within a timely manner
  • Allocating customer payments
  • Setting up new customer and supplier accounts.
  • Creating supplier payment files for authorisation
  • Creating payment files for research participants
  • Dealing with a wide range of queries received in our Accounts inbox
  • Contacting businesses to tactfully collect due and overdue Invoices
  • Completing bank reconciliations
  • Processing employee expenses
  • Supplier statement reconciliation
  • Conducting ad-hoc customer and supplier account reconciliations
  • Raising inter-company recharge invoices
  • Analysis of credit card payments
  • Supporting the Head of Finance with project profitability reviews
  • Other ad-hoc reconciliations and work


Required experience and skills:

  • Must have experience within a Finance Assistant role, or similar position
  • Part-qualified AAT preferred
  • Experience of purchase ledger, sales invoicing, bank reconciliations, payment preparation, and credit control
  • Knowledge around posting journal entries
  • A quick learner, confident in an environment that likes to embrace change
  • Strong communication skills and a 'can do' attitude
  • Experience of Sage is an advantage
  • Confident using new systems, with experience using Excel


Salary: from £28,000 per annum


Other Benefits:

We offer hybrid working with three days in the office. The finance team mainly works out of our Stockport office, however there is the expectation of one day a week in our Manchester office.


  • 28 days holiday, including Bank Holiday increasing to 33 over 5 years of service
  • Birthday Leave
  • Moving House Leave
  • Paid Emergency Leave
  • Christmas closure
  • Flexi-time
  • Study support
  • Cycle to Work
  • BUPA Cash Plan
  • Free breakfast, snacks and drinks
  • Dinner dates
  • Events
  • Ongoing learning and development

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