Finance assistant

2 days ago


London, UK, United Kingdom Splendid Communications Full time

Closing date: 30th October 2024

We are Splendid, a multiple award-winning communications agency based in Shoreditch and we are looking for a new Finance Assistant to join the team.

This is a great opportunity for someone who would like to continue their career in accountancy in an exciting, fast-paced environment. You will be given real, valuable experience and, with this, the opportunity to take on more advanced responsibilities.

Your job will be to support the Financial Controller in providing the whole business with efficient and effective financial management and controls, working with staff at all levels.

At Splendid you’ll find people who really know their stuff and who are generous with their knowledge. It’s an agency where talent is recognised and encouraged, and where bright people stick around and progress onwards and upwards. Maybe that’s you. In the finance team we pride ourselves in contributing to the culture as well as achieving a high level of excellence in terms of financial reporting and the processes.

Key responsibilities

  • Purchase ledger including processing invoices and expenses, doing fortnightly payment runs
  • Client billing and debt chasing
  • Bank reconciliations and updating the weekly cashflow forecast
  • Assisting with month-end tasks such as fixed assets and depreciation, accruals and prepayments
  • Monitoring overhead expenditure using house job budgets
  • Training non-finance staff to use Paprika, our financial and job-management software, and dealing with general queries
  • Managing the timesheet process including, monitoring and chasing missing time
  • As you develop you will be expected to work proactively to improve systems and processes, and providing ad-hoc financial support as required throughout the business

Future development

  • Potential to take on more responsibilities within the finance function such as the sales ledger and management accounting tasks.
  • Splendid would provide study support towards an accounting qualification such as AAT or ACCA.

Knowledge, skills and experience

  • A basic but solid accountancy background, either from a relevant degree or at least 1 year of relevant work experience
  • Good working knowledge of MS Office software, including Excel, Word and Outlook
  • Minimum of 5 GCSEs A*-C including Maths and English or equivalent qualifications.
  • Good numeracy skills
  • Able to communicate clearly and professionally, on phone and email
  • Bright, self-motivated, fast-learner
  • Well-organised and good at prioritising, able to work to deadlines
  • Thorough approach, including a good attention to detail
  • Good team player
  • Friendly, outgoing personality

Benefits

  • 25 days of paid holiday a year, plus eight bank holidays. This rises by 1 day for each year of service to a maximum of 30 days
  • Celebrate your Birthday with an additional day off
  • Unwind during a Christmas Close Down – we close our office between Christmas and New Year, so we give you 3 days extra days off for the festive period
  • Balance work and home life with our Hybrid working policy – working up to 3 days from home and 2 days a week in the office (across Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)
  • Embrace your weekend with an early 4.30 pm finish on Friday
  • Take a break during headspace hour - 1 hour guaranteed meeting free per day
  • Take proper time out with a Sabbatical - after 3 years’ service
  • Work from anywhere for a calendar month- after 2 years’ service
  • Try not to work late – we don’t encourage it - but if you find yourself in the office after 9 pm, we will pay for a taxi to get you home safely and provide food
  • Participate in a discretionary annual bonus scheme as well as bonuses available for new business wins and recruitment referrals
  • Enjoy enhanced parental pay (varies on service levels)
  • Look after your health with access to WeCare, a 24/7 online GP, mental health support service, get fit programme and more
  • Develop your personal balance with a £100 yearly fund
  • Mingle with the team at our monthly all-agency socials, Summer and Christmas parties
  • Stay connected with a company use iPhone
  • Build your future with our pension scheme
  • Get fit during your commutes with our Ride to Work scheme
  • Prefer to take public transport? We can give you a travel loan, interest free
  • And last but definitely not least according to the team: yummy snacks and drinks for those that get peckish during the day

At Splendid we care deeply and are passionate about inclusion at every level of our business. We believe that team diversity enriches our collaborative culture and our work for clients. We are keen to meet candidates from all backgrounds so please get in touch if your skills and experience match our job description. If we can help you by making any adjustments to our application process, please do let our recruitment team know.

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.



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