Finance Assistant

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; Carterton; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd is seeking a Finance Assistant to support a Defence and Aerospace client in Carterton. You will assist with cost analysis, forecasting, and month-end processes, helping to keep payroll, billing and accruals on track.

The role requires strong finance knowledge, ability to explain variances, and cash flow forecasting experience. 32ph inside IR35, contract to 30/06/2027, based in Carterton.

Qualifications

• Finance knowledge covering debits/credits, cash and P&L.
• Ability to explain variances and support financial controllers.
• Experience with cash flow forecasting and cost reporting.
• Experience with cost centre reporting and procurement coding.
• AAT or CIMA qualifications are beneficial.
• Experience within defence or aerospace is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support the Financial controller with transactions and cost analysis.
• Maintain cash forecasts and assist in payroll and billing processes.
• Prepare accruals and allocate costs across the business.
• Collaborate with operations to forecast resources and costs.
• Record and evaluate risks or opportunities for management.
• Assist with month-end close and internal reporting.
• Liaise with procurement to ensure proper cost recognition.
• Provide analytics to support financial performance reporting.

Skills

Explain variances

Finance knowledge

Support controllers

Cash flow forecasting

Cost centre reporting

Procurement coding

AAT/CIMA helpful

Education

AAT

CIMA

Job description

Finance Assistant

Contract up to 30/06/2027 initially

Based in Carterton

Offering £32ph Inside IR35

Do you have finance knowledge - debits/credits, cash, and profit and loss, etc.?

Have you got experience carrying out cash flow forecasting?

Do you want to work with an industry-leading company?

If your answer to these is yes, then this could be the role for you!

As the Finance Assistant, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry.

You will be involved:

• 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
• Produce meaningful analytics to support local operational management
• 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

Your skillset & experience:

• Be able to explain variances
• Finance knowledge, debits/credits, cash, and Profit and Loss
• Support Financial controllers
• Cash flow forecast experience
• Providing cost centre reports
• Look up coding for procurement
• AAT, CIMA would be useful

Finance Assistant

Contract up to 30/06/2027 initially

Based in Carterton

Offering £32ph Inside IR35