Finance & Legal Assistant

Smartech; London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Smartech Retail Group seeks a Finance & Legal Assistant to enhance finance strategies and manage legal matters. This role involves administration, financial management, and stakeholder collaboration. Ideal candidates will have 3-5 years of relevant experience and strong analytical skills, fitting into a vibrant and innovative team environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of finance and legal expertise.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
• Proficient in Excel and able to analyze data.

Responsibilities

• Ensures business processes, administration, and financial management.
• Participates in changes to procedures and policies.
• Reviews financial reports and prepares financial forecasts.

Skills

Financial management

Legal advice

Communication

Analytical skills

Tools

Xero

Excel

Job description

About Smartech Retail Group

Do you want to help shape the future of retail? Here’s a thought – how about doing that, while helping people get a sneak peek of what the world is creating at the same time. We are Smartech Retail Group – a destination for innovation at the world’s best department stores. We let people discover, try and play with the latest innovation, gaming, and e-mobility across our 12 experience-led concept stores globally. Because honestly, why should retail be boring? If you want to create immersive experiences and unforgettable memories, this is your chance! We are now, looking for you – our new Finance & Legal Assistant who will play a key role as part of our HQ and finance team providing first-class customer experience.

Are you ready to deliver change and reinvent the rules of retail? Are you looking for a new challenge that gives you the chance to get creative and use your knowledge of Finance to take Smartech to the next level? Looking for a company that wants to help further your career as well as provide you with an exciting, inspiring and fun place to work? Welcome to one of the most fun and rewarding jobs you will ever have.

About The Role As Finance & Legal Assistant

Are you passionate about retail, collaborations and world leading innovation? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! The Finance & Legal Assistant will play a leading role in delivering the overall finance strategy, with key focus upon commercial agreements, recovery, stakeholder collaboration and management, finance planning, and driving annual revenue targets.

As a Finance & Legal Assistant, you will:

• Ensures business processes, administration, and financial management
• Taking ownership of (financial) administration, including creditor management, debtor management and invoicing
• Produce invoices in the Finance ERP - Xero system and monthly maintenance of accounts
• Manage the financial recovery from business development
• Maintains an accurate filing and record keeping system for all financial statements and company documents
• Participates in the execution of changes to procedures, policies, and systems to facilitate expansion, compliance, and scaling of the business
• Acting as the point of contact for all internal and external legal matters
• Drawing up and improving various company documents, including debtor policy and collection procedures
• Review of commercial agreements and other related legal documents
• Signing of brand agreements and product loan agreements
• Drafting of NDAs and other legal documents provided by the company
• Assistance to the business development team on clauses in specific cases
• Credit application form filling
• Management of legal matters related to brand agreements and payments
• Management of legal claims and court processes
• Leads planning and forecasting activities with business partners to achieve business and company goals
• Reviews financial reports
• Prepares financial forecasts
• Monitors financial details to ensure legal compliance
• Analyzes revenue, expenses, cash flows, and balance sheets
• Assists management to make financial decisions
• Investigate means to improve profitability.
  
  

We are searching for you...

• with 3 to 5 years of experience in finance and legal management. You are a goal-oriented, self-motivated people-person with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who thrives in a dynamic environment – always ready to roll up your sleeves and get things done. With your ability to understand international business and finance, you build strong and long-lasting relationships and ensure delivery is both on time and on quality. Impeccably well-presented, positive, confident and a team player. If you want to grow your skills in a thriving company that knows that retail is not dying – as long as it's not boring – you are the changemaker we are looking for. Join us to create immersive experiences that amaze and amuse as we continue to shape tomorrow's future!
  
  

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• 3-5 years of strong and proven finance and legal expertise and experience
• Experience of advising on basic legal issues and comfortable providing understandable, accurate and timely advice to other departments
• Experience of advising on the key risks inherent within commercial agreements
• Knowledge of basic clauses related to commercial obligations and distribution of products among others
• Basic knowledge on NDAs and data protection
• Experience in debt collection and incident management
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Keen commercial awareness and critical thinker with excellent numerical and analytical skills: Proficient in Excel with ability to synthesize large amounts of data and information into concise recommendations and actions
• Experienced in working across broad cross-functional stakeholder groups to turn strategy into actionable finance plans
• Resilient, naturally pragmatic and resourceful solutions-based work style with a ‘can do’ attitude and strong focus upon delivery: Able to plan, lead, manage and adapt multiple projects at the same time on deadlines, as well as confident and comfortable in making quick decisions
• Able to meet targets and take responsibility for own performance
• A natural leader. Coaching team members to drive performance & enable change as well as supporting development
  
  

SALARY RANGE: £28.000-£30.000

START: Immediately

LOCATION: London

JOB HOURS: Full time

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