Finance Assistant

Click Digital; Brize Norton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Click Digital is recruiting a Finance Assistant for a leading Defence organisation based on site in Brize Norton. You will report to the Finance Director and support the Financial Controller with cost analysis, payroll accounting, billing, treasury, accruals and cost allocations.

You will maintain forecasts, work with operations to plan resources, and provide meaningful analytics for management and customers.

Qualifications

• Proficient in financial analysis and cost forecasting.
• Experience supporting payroll accounting and treasury processes.
• Able to record, post and explain journals and cost allocations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cost, revenue and cash forecast for the entity/function.
• Forecast resource plans and cost impact with operational teams.
• Record and evaluate risks or opportunities; assist in month-end processes.
• Liaise with managers to understand and control operational costs.
• Support invoicing processes and external/internal cost recognition.
• Provide analytics to support financial performance reporting.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cost forecasting

Payroll support

Journal postings

Variance analysis

Tools

Excel

ERP system

Job description

We are recruiting for a Finance Assistant for a leading Defence organisation based on site in Brize Norton.

The role

You will functionally report in to the Finance Director.

As the Finance Assistant you will support the Financial controller in transacting, understanding and analysing operational cost, along with completing support tasks for the subsidiary; including support to payroll accounting, billing processes, treasury processes, accruals and allocation of costs.

• Maintain cost, revenue and cash forecast for the entire business entity/business function


• Work with operational teams to forecast resource plans and cost impact


• Help record and evaluate risks or opportunities


• Assist in regular OP and FC process


• Act as a liaison for managers in understanding and controlling operational costs


• Input and advise on external costs and internal resources


• Liaison with procurement team to ensure correct evaluation of open commitment and timely recognition of cost


• Provide analysis and support to financial performance reporting


• Track actual costs and revenue allocation - understand, review and be able to instruct journals and posting to the back office team to ensure accurate booking of cost, allocations and revenues. Be able to explain variances.


• Produce meaningful analytics to support local operational management


• Present to local management and Military Services programme customers independently


• Assist with single resource reporting requirements


• Ensure operational spend is in line with contractual and single sourcing roles


• Ad-hoc reporting for MOD and other UK Government agencies


• Work closely with TFEU teams to coordinate end of month closing activities such as periodic postings, accruals, sales reserves


• To provide support the invoicing process to internal and external customers


• To identify and launch new financial initiatives pursuing continuous improvements and challenge existing processes and procedures

This is an umbrella contract, the role is Inside IR35