Finance Assistant Purchase Ledger

Activate Group Limited; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday including bankholidays

Health cash plan

Enhanced parental pay

Life assurance

Free breakfasts and fruit

Birthday surprise

Job summary

Activate Group is seeking a Finance Assistant to join the Finance team in a hybrid Halifax-based role. You will support the Purchase Ledger and transactional finance activities, ensuring accuracy and adherence to policies, controls and SLAs while building strong stakeholder relationships.

You will handle supplier reconciliations, data entry, and payment allocations, and contribute to continual improvements within the finance function.

Qualifications

• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and effective communication.
• Familiarity with transactional finance processes and SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Manage high volume transactional processing with accuracy.
• Reconcile supplier and repairer statements to ledgers; investigate variances.
• Resolve supplier queries via EMS and dedicated phone lines.
• Prepare, submit and allocate supplier payments on banking platform.
• Create and maintain supplier and repairer accounts per procedures.
• Collaborate with internal teams to improve processes and service delivery.
• Maintain accurate financial records to support controls and audits.
• Support month-end activities to meet SLAs.

Skills

Attention to detail

Work under pressure

Problem solving

Effective communication

Deadline driven

Education

AAT Level 2+

Tools

Sage 200

Excel

Job description

Finance Assistant Purchase Ledger

Location: Hybrid / Halifax

Department: Finance

Contract type: Permanent

About the role

We're looking for an Accounts Assistantto join our Finance team!

As part of our Finance team, you will be responsible for supporting the organisations transactional finance processes, encompassing our company values and contributing to a continuous improvement culture.

Working to team KPI’s to ensure accuracy and adherence to the organisation's policies, controls and SLAs, whilst building and maintaining excellent working relationships with both internal and external key stakeholders.

Activate Group is a growing UK business with 1,000+ team members nationwide. This is an exciting opportunity to build a long-term career with a company that values its people and offers genuine development and progression opportunities.

Key responsibilities

• Manage high volume transactional processing through manual data entry and imports, ensuring accuracy and adherence to company approval processes.
• Reconciliation of supplier and repairer statements to ledger balances, investigation and resolution of any variances.
• Resolution of supplier and repairer queries received into the teams EMS and dedicated phone lines.
• Preparation, submission and allocation of supplier and repairer payments on the company’s banking platform.
• Creation and maintenance of supplier and repairer accounts in line with company procedures
• Collaborate with internal teams, suppliers and repairers to improve processes, reduce expectations and enhance service delivery.
• Maintain accurate financial records and supporting documentation to ensure compliance with internal controls and audit requirements.
• Support month-end activities by ensuring we reach and maintain our SLA’s.

Skills and experience

• Excellent attention to detail, accuracy & organisational skills.
• The ability to work under pressure.
• Strong problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communication and customer service skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines in a high-volume transactional environment.

Desirable (but not essential):

• AAT Level 2 qualification or above.
• Experience using sage 200.
• Good excel skills.
• 2+ Years of working in a similar finance role, with purchase and sales transactions

Benefits

We believe in rewarding our people for the great work they do. When you join Activate Group, you can expect:

• 33 days holiday, including bank holidays
• Personal health cash plan - claim back the cost of everyday healthcare such as dental and optical check-ups
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay
• Life assurance at three times your basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fresh fruit
• A birthday surprise for everyone

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, we want everyone to have the tools and support they need to do their best work. We're an innovative business that continuously reviews and improves our systems, processes and ways of working, making sure they support our teams to do their jobs effectively.

Every role at Activate Group is aligned to our wider business vision and purpose – making someone's bad day better. You'll understand how your role contributes to the bigger picture and how your work helps deliver excellent outcomes for customer and partners.

We believe work should be enjoyable. We make time to celebrate success, recognise achievements and bring people together at team events and company-wide celebrations. We'll also support your ongoing development through regular feedback and career planning.

Whether you're based in one of our contact centres in Halifax, Peterborough or Huddersfield, working at an Activate Accident Repair (AAR) site, or working from home, you'll be part of a supportive culture where people are encouraged to succeed.

A bit about us

Activate Group is a fast-growing business approaching1,000 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK’s largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in road incidents through our contact centres inHalifax, Peterborough and Huddersfield.

We manage every step of the repair journey - repairing vehicles at our ownActivate Accident Repair (AAR)body shops, as well as through a UK-wide network of trusted independent repair partners.

We also work with the UK’s largest vehicle manufacturers, supporting their approved repair programmes, and deliver innovative technology solutions to fleets, vehicle repair centres and dealerships.

Our purpose & values

Our purpose underpins everything we do: Make someone's bad day better

Our values define how we work with our team members, customers and suppliers:

• Make it happen - Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better - Be bold. Challenge the norm - make small improvements often.
• Win together - Be a team player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.