Finance Assistant

BIG Partnership; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing agency is seeking a Finance Assistant to support their finance team in Glasgow. The role involves managing financial systems, credit control, and ensuring timely invoicing. Candidates should have strong organizational skills, system experience, and a commitment to accuracy.

Benefits

Flexible holiday allowance

Career development support

Coaching and mentoring programs

Free snacks and beverages

Life assurance

Social events

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Experienced finance assistant with strong organizational skills.
• System experience and advanced Excel skills are essential.
• Experience in a small to medium-sized company preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer finance systems focusing on Credit Control and Purchase Ledger.
• Assist with project invoicing and manage supplier payments.
• Ensure timely credit control and resolve sales ledger queries.

Skills

Organizational skills

Advanced Excel skills

Credit Control skills

Job description

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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Assistant to join our brilliant finance team. They will play a key role in helping to assist with smooth running of the Finance department.

The role will be based in our Glasgow office.

We are open to considering applicants on both a full time and part time basis for this role.

The Job

You will be responsible for the administration and operation of all finance systems with particular emphasis on the Credit Control, Purchase Ledger, and Purchase Order Processing. You will work together with the wider finance team to establish objectives and take responsibility for managing a workload, organising and prioritising work to meet strict financial deadlines.

On a day-to-day basis you will be involved in the following;

• Provide the core support for the team to ensure that client and company needs are met and the team runs smoothly, liaising where required.
• Assist with retainer and project invoicing, ensuring invoices are sent on time to clients.
• Posting bank receipts for customer accounts ensuring these are allocated to the correct invoices.
• Credit control – liaise with clients and client teams to resolve sales ledger queries to ensure the fast turnaround of customer payments.
• Process purchase invoices ensuring invoices are coded correctly, matched to PO and authorised.
• Prepare supplier payment run on a weekly basis and urgent payments as required.
• Liaising with suppliers and deal promptly with enquires and reconcile supplier statements.
• Ensuring all supplier accounts are up to date and payments, direct debits and standing orders have been allocated correctly.
• Ensuring a high level of accuracy whilst completing tasks.
• Assist with the finance support of all other departments.

The Person

The position requires an experienced finance assistant with strong organisational skills, as well as system experience and advanced excel skills. The ideal candidate will have experience working within a small to medium sized company.

The Perks

W are a fast-paced independent agency, with a collaborative and supportive culture and a real emphasis on helping every member of our team achieve their potential. We value energy and commitment highly. If you’re the right person for this opportunity, you can count on:

• A brilliant holiday allowance, including a day off for your birthday, a day off for charity work of your choice and a half day for Christmas shopping.
• Senior investment and time into your career development.
• Coaching, training, and mentoring programmes, with support for professional memberships and study.
• Free fruit every day, free bar every Friday and free pizza every month.
• Life assurance.
• Lots of social events throughout the year and a company-wide Summer and Christmas party.
• An open, dynamic, and collaborative working environment.
• The opportunity to work alongside and learn from some of the best in the business.
• The best colleagues you could hope for!

But enough about us. How about you? Interested? Of course you are! Click apply now to tell us why you should be the newest member of our team….

About BIG

Establishedover two decades ago, BIG Partnership has grown to become one of the UK’s largest and most successful independent marketing agencies, with more than 80 people working on over 300 clients across offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Manchester.

We specialise in offering a fully integrated service to our clients, with core services that cover PR, design, digital and marketing. We work with businesses ranging from start-ups to some of the world’s biggest brands. Household brands, including Aldi, BP, Deloitte, Asda, Loch Lomond Whisky and Loganair, have entrusted their marketing and communication needs to us. This trust is reflected in our recent ranking for client satisfaction, where specialist consultancy, Relationship Matters, placed BIG among the top 20% of agencies globally for client satisfaction.

We are BIG on our people and culture. You’ll be working alongside colleagues who will happily go the extra mile for you, because they know you would do the same for them. Independently conducted staff surveys show BIG boasts a supportive and positive work environment, with more than 90% of its staff viewing BIG as an employer of choice. This is probably why The Herald newspaper named BIG as having the Best Employee Culture in Scotland.

We’re truly a values-driven organisation. A hallmark of our ethos is our focus on staff development and an open, supportive culture.

If you're interested in working with us, you can find our open vacancies on our website, and you can hear directly from our teams about our award-winning culture and what they love most about working at BIG.

BIG Partnership is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Closing date: 26th June 2025*

*The position may close earlier depending on applicant volume.

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