Finance Assistant - maternity cover upto 3 months

Doing various responsibilities. You will work with a team of Finance Assistants supporting the Company Accountant on a range of Finance duties.

Salary upto £29k start DOE

Main Purpose of the Role: To support the Company’s Finance department, Company Accountant and Financial Controller.

• Collating documentation to support journal transactions for expenditure and sales in profit and loss accounts.
• Creating a monthly profit and loss expenditure analysis pack for review by senior management.
• Prepare and post monthly recurring journals for specified Balance sheet accounts.
• Reconcile Balance Sheet accounts.
• Preparing monthly sales breakdown report.
• Calculating and preparing monthly sales commissions.
• Prepare and post inter-company journals, ensuring all figures are agreed by agreed deadlines.
• Maintaining cashbooks and credit card receipts – including downloading bank statements, recording bank statement transactions, posting all currency sales ledger and nominal items on a daily basis.
• Ensure all purchase ledger items are complete to enable daily posting.
• Reconcile all bank accounts daily.
• Review and reconcile petty cash book and cash on a weekly basis
• Liaise with department heads to obtain approval for supplier payments.
• Ensuring there are adequate levels of currency to cover supplier payments.
• Completing reports for inclusion in the Board report.
• Issuing foreign currency to staff, ensuring sufficient levels of currency.
• Recognise, prepare and produce prepayments and accruals and reconciling weekly.
• Coding and posting journals.
• Producing payment sheets for Assistant Company Accountant, including employee expenses.
• Providing cover for Finance Assistants.
• Ad hoc duties as required.

• Strong Microsoft Excel knowledge.
• Accurate, organised, and able to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience of sales and expenditure analysis.
• Strong teamwork ethic.
• Experience of working in a finance department.
• Experience of working with allocating concepts i.e., accruals and prepayments.

• Training to become or be AAT qualified.
• Experience in manufacturing environment.

• Auto enrolled into our Stakeholder Pension Scheme (Louvolite contributes 4%).
• 28 days holiday (including statutory), rising by one day over five years, with each completed year of service.
• Life Assurance covering your annual salary.
• Subsidised canteen offering freshly cooked meals and sandwiches every day.
• Free car parking.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering counselling support, legal guidance, and medical advice from qualified nurses, for you and your immediate family.
• Discounted Gym Membership.
• Discounted Blinds and Shutters, upon successful completion of your Probationary Period.
• Free Flu Jab voucher every Autumn.
• Christmas Savings Scheme.

Your details will not be held, and we apologise that we are unable to contact everyone in person and thank you for your interest.