Finance Assistant

Spirit Health; Leicester Forest East; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave + pro-rated bank holiday

Option to buy 5 extra days (FTE)

Birthday day-off

Enhanced parental leave

Bonus scheme

Recognition scheme

Flexible working opportunities

Death in service

Car scheme

Wellbeing initiatives

Lifestyle discounts

Emergency loans

Eyecare vouchers

Mental wellness support

Financial and legal support

Job summary

Spirit Health is hiring a Finance Assistant in the UK to support month-end close, cash flow forecasting, and data analysis. You will work across teams to deliver accurate financial reporting and drive continuous improvement, thriving in a fast-paced, people-first culture.

Ideal candidates bring experience with ledgers, strong Excel skills, and a proactive, collaborative mindset. The role offers a part-time contract (25–30 hours) for 9 months with a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a similar role looking after multiple ledgers.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite and accounting software.
• Excellent attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Good time management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong people skills with effective communication across internal/external customers.
• A curious, can-do attitude and willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Raise sales invoices according to service schedules.
• Issue statements and follow up unpaid invoices.
• Post purchase invoices and seek approval from managers.
• Record credit card spend and employee expenses with receipts.
• Process monthly supplier payments and ad-hoc payments.
• Record bank payments/receipts and reconcile with invoices.
• Carry out weekly bank reconciliations and monitor cash flow.
• Manage team inbox and respond to queries.
• Report KPIs for the team scorecard.
• Support team in achieving company objectives.

Skills

Multiple ledgers management

MS Office & accounting software

Attention to detail & data accuracy

Time management

Communication across levels

Curious, can-do attitude

Tools

Accounting software

MS Office

Job description

Finance Assistant

From £25,000 to £27,000 FTE, 25-30 hours, FTC for 9 months

Tired of ordinary? Join Spirit now and help us raise the good kind of hell making healthcare easier, fairer, with a personal approach.

We're looking for a Finance Assistant to jump in and make a real difference. Spirit Health is on a mission, and we need brilliant people to drive it forward. We’re growing and need people who move quick, think sharp, and care deeply. Think people-first, fast-paced, rewarding, fun, and never, ever dull. We are family with purpose!

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days leave plus bank Pro-rated for part-time hours
• Option to buy 5 extra days (FTE). Time off is important!
• You always get your birthday off.
• Enhanced pay for maternity, adoption, shared parental and paternity leave.
• Bonus scheme so you get to benefit from our success.
• Recognition scheme that rewards brilliant work.
• Flexible working opportunities to align with your lifestyle.
• Death in service.
• Car scheme.
• Award winning wellbeing initiatives.
• Access to many other benefits, including lifestyle discounts, emergency loans, eyecare vouchers, mental, wellness, financial and legal support.
• An award winning, fun and rewarding culture where you make a genuine difference to patients and healthcare teams every day.

The role

Ready to bring clarity to complexity and drive real impact? We're on the lookout for a motivated and detail-driven Finance Assistant to help us deliver accurate, insightful financial reporting and support our continuous improvement journey. You’ll play a key role in our month-end close process, cash flow forecasting, and data analysis - making sure our finance function runs like clockwork.

You’ll collaborate across teams, contribute to strategic decision-making, and step up with innovative ideas that challenge the status quo. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love digging into the numbers, and have a passion for driving operational excellence, this is the role for you.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Raise sales invoices according to service schedules and product orders
• Issue statements and follow up any unpaid customer invoices
• Post purchase invoices and seek approval from responsible departmental managers
• Record credit card spend and employee expenses ensuring all receipts are provided
• Prepare and process a monthly supplier payment run with additional ad-hoc payments
• Record bank payments and receipts on our accounting software and match to customer/supplier invoices
• Carry out weekly bank reconciliations and monitor cash flow
• Manage our Accounts team inbox and deal with or escalat any queries
• Report KPIs for our team scorecard
• Support the team and business in achieving company objectives

A full Job Description is available.

Who we need

As a successful candidate you are passionate about numbers, love finding smarter ways to work, and want to be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking culture. Being highly motivated and dedicated to providing a brilliant service across the businesses. You are excited and committed to our goals and values, an excellent communicator at all levels and thrive on fast pace and change.

• Proven experience within a similar role looking after multiple ledgers
• Proficiency with MS Office suite and accounting software
• Excellent attention to detail and data accuracy
  
• Good time management skills being able to work to deadlines
• Strong people skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external customers
• A curious, can-do attitude and willingness to learn

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you:

Who are Spirit

We're challengers on one mission: make health easy.

We build smarter medicines management, digital monitoring, and patient education tools that improve patients’ life and simplify work for clinicians. Trusted by the NHS for over 15 years, we are scaling.

Through Spirit Health Foundation, we're extending that mission to underserved communities globally. Early detection. Better access. Healthier lives for all.

Back-to-back rating as #1 health & social care employer (Best Companies), we’re only getting started.

With big ambitions and global impact, we need brilliant people to help us deliver.

Our hiring process is fast, fair, and fearless. We ask great questions, give real challenges, and move quickly, so you’ll always know where you stand.

Think you’ve got the Brilliance, Family, and Vigour to match? Let’s make health easy, together.

Closing date for applications is 30th November 2026.