Finance Assistant

Arm; Carterton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm in Carterton is seeking a Finance Assistant to support the financial operations of a leading defence and aerospace business on a contract basis.

The role covers costs, payroll support, treasury, accruals, forecasting, and cost analysis, with close work alongside the finance team to ensure accurate posting and reporting.

Initial contract to 30 June 2027, inside IR35 at £32/hour, on-site. The role offers opportunities to drive financial improvements and deliver timely insights.

Qualifications

• Finance knowledge including debits/credits, cash, and P&L.
• Experience forecasting cash flow.
• Experience supporting financial controllers.
• Ability to produce cost centre reports and analyze variances.
• Familiarity with procurement coding and cost allocation.
• AAT or CIMA qualifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support the Financial Controller in costing, payroll support, treasury, accruals and cost allocations.
• Maintain cost, revenue, and cash forecast for the entity or function.
• Collaborate with operations to forecast resources and cost impact.
• Record and evaluate risks or opportunities; assist in OP and FC processes.
• Liaise with managers to control operating costs and external costs and procurement.
• Provide analytics for financial performance reporting and month-end close activities.
• Assist with invoicing processes to internal and external customers.

Skills

Variance explanation

Finance basics

Controller support

Cash flow forecasting

Cost centre reporting

Procurement coding

AAT/CIMA beneficial

Education

AAT/CIMA beneficial

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