Finance Assistant

Box; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in finance transformation as a Finance Administrator. You will maintain purchase and sales ledgers, process invoices, and support the finance team in producing accounts while enhancing your finance skills. Ideal for someone with prior finance experience and a strong customer service focus.

Qualifications

• Previous experience of working in a similar role.
• Interest in developing finance skills and knowledge.
• An understanding of basic accounting processes and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance of the purchase and sales ledger.
• Processing of purchase invoices and expenses.
• Assisting members of the finance team with reports and audits.

Skills

Multi-tasking

Customer Service

Accounting processes

MS Office (Excel)

Job description

The post holder will join the team at an exciting time as we are going through a period of finance transformation including migrating accounting systems from Sage 50 to Xledger. There will be opportunity to build on previous finance experience and increase knowledge of accountancy.

• Maintenance of the purchase ledger. Ensuring all supplier records are accurate and up to date, entry of purchase invoices, reconciliation of supplier statements.
• Download reports for weekly/monthly payments of suppliers and upload via bank transfer (BACS) ready for authorisation.
• Upload BACS payroll data to HSBC for authorisation.
• Maintaining Finance MS Outlook in-boxes on a daily basis. The postholder will deal with supplier queriesand internal departmental queries.
• Processing of purchase invoices and expenses and preparation of payment runs.
• Processing daily takings from the Box Office and cover for Café & Bar. Timely preparation, checking and posting of journals for daily returns.
• Daily reconciliation of Watershed bank accounts.
• Monthly reconciliation of company credit card statements.
• Maintenance of the sales ledger including raising invoices and credit control.
• Assisting members of the finance team in the production of monthly management accounts, income reports, year-end accounts and other reports as required.
• Assisting as necessary with audit queries for Watershed group of companies.
• Providing basic training to Watershed staff on processes for claiming expenses, raising purchase and sales orders.

Person specifications

• Previous experience of working in a similar role with the ability to multi task.
• An understanding of basic accounting processes and procedures.
• Ability to learn new systems and familiarity with MS Office products including Excel.
• Interest in developing finance skills and knowledge.
• Awareness of how to provide a high level of customer service.

The closing date for this position is 21/07/2025 at 17:00