Finance Assistant – Glasgow

Clyde Space Limited; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

AAC Clyde Space in Glasgow is seeking a Finance Assistant to join our team, providing day-to-day transactional support across accounts payable, receivable, and general ledger, with a strong focus on accurate processing and financial controls. The role is mainly on site with occasional out-of-hours work to meet monthly, quarterly, and annual deadlines.

You will support project financial tracking, timesheet management, and master data maintenance.

Qualifications

• Experience in finance with end-to-end transaction processing
• Good understanding of double-entry bookkeeping and financial controls
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with high attention to detail
• Familiarity with Sage 50 and finance systems/ERPs

Responsibilities

• Process purchase invoices with correct coding and approvals
• Process employee expenses and supplier payments
• Maintain supplier and customer master data with verified bank details
• Raise sales invoices, post cash receipts, and reconcile customer accounts
• Support bank allocations and control account reconciliations, monitor cash flow
• Monitor finance inboxes and resolve queries within timescales
• Timesheet management and weekly/monthly coordination across staff
• Review timesheets for accuracy and project codes
• Maintain timesheet system and approval workflows
• Compare hours from timesheets to forecasted/budgeted hours for projects
• MRP housekeeping: review and close open sales orders and POs

Skills

End-to-end transaction processing

Double-entry bookkeeping

Excel proficiency

Sage 50

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Sage 50

ERP systems

MS Excel

Job description

AAC Clyde Space is seeking a Finance Assistant to join our team in Glasgow, providing day to day-to-day support in financial operations and projects.

This offers a great opportunity for someone to have broad exposure to finance within a project-driven, global SME, providing an excellent foundation for progression within accounting and finance.

The role is responsible for delivering accurate and timely transactional finance support and executing core financial processes—including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, ensuring accurate processing and strong financial controls while supporting project financial tracking and the month-end close.

The role is predominately based on site. The nature of the role will require occasional ‘out of hours’ work to meet deadlines in line with monthly, quarterly and annual business activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Process purchase invoices, ensuring accuracy, correct coding, and timely approval
• Process employee expenses and supplier payments
• Maintain supplier and customer master data, including bank details that have gone through appropriate verification
• Raise sales invoices, post cash receipts, reconcile customer accounts and support credit control activity.
• Support bank allocations and control account reconciliations, and monitor cash flow positions
• Monitor finance inboxes/workflows, ensuring queries are logged, prioritised and resolved within agreed timescales.
• Timesheet management and coordination, including actively tracking and collating weekly/monthly timesheets from all staff.
• Review all timesheets for accuracy and completeness, ensuring correct project codes, hours, and descriptions are used.
• Maintain timesheet system – set up new users and project codes, configure approval workflows.
• Compare actual hours recorded on timesheets against forecasted/budgeted hours for specific projects or departments.
• MRP Housekeeping – Regularly review open sales order in the MRP system and close out completed ones. Along with purchase order review and close out

Skills required:

• Previous experience in a finance or accounts role with a good understanding of end-to-end transaction processing
• Good working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and basic financial controls.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with high attention to detail and excellent communication
• Familiarity with MRP/Finance software (e.g. Sage 50).
• Proficiency and confidence in Microsoft Excel (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, and reconciliations) and finance systems/ERPs
• High standards of integrity and confidentiality when handling financial and personal data.
• High attention to detail, with consistent and disciplined documentation practices within a high-volume environment.
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation; comfortable with multiple concurrent workstreams/multiple projects in a dynamic environment and tight deadlines.
• Competent IT skills including Microsoft software.
• Proficient in English, both verbally and written.
• Relevant degree or equivalent work experience, or working towards a relevant qualification
• Previous experience of working with small/medium sized company

ABOUT AAC CLYDE SPACE

AAC Clyde Space provides small satellite technologies and services that help governments, businesses and institutions access high-quality data from space. Covering satellite components, mission services and space-based data delivery, the company offers end-to-end solutions that turn space-based intelligence into real-world impact. Applications include weather monitoring, maritime safety, security and defence, agriculture and forestry.

AAC Clyde Space is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, with operations also in the UK, Netherlands, South Africa and the USA. The company’s shares are traded on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market in Stockholm (Ticker: AAC) and on the US OTCQX Market (OTCQX: ACCMF).

As part of our recruitment process, we collect and process personal data relating to job applicants. We are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use this data, pleaseclick here to see our job applicant privacy notice.

Right to Work

AAC Clyde Space has a legal responsibility to ensure that all its employees have the legal right to live and work in the EU or the country in which they plan to work. Therefore, if you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to AAC Clyde Space verifying that you are eligible to work in that country before you start work.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We aim to create a positive recruitment and selection experience across every part of our business.The company is committed to handling applications to a consistently high standard and all candidates with dignity and respect. Those involved in the recruitment and selection process will act with integrity, objectivity and professionalism. We are committed to equal opportunities for all and to have diversity reflected within our global workforce. We believe its diversity and inclusion will allow for greater creativity and innovation to help AAC Clyde Space Group deliver the vision to help improve life on earth.

Openness to Flexible Working

We recognise work-life balance is important so we are open to discussions around flexible working, depending on the nature of the role and business needs. If you would like to know more, please ask the Hiring Manager during any recruitment process that you may be involved in.