Transactional Finance Assistant

JR United Kingdom; Stroud; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Transactional Finance Assistant to join its Finance Team in Stroud. The role involves processing supplier invoices and customer payments, focusing initially on Accounts Payable tasks. Ideal candidates will have finance experience, excellent organization skills, and proficiency in tools like Excel and Workday, as well as a proactive attitude. This position also promotes process improvement and offers flexible working conditions.

Benefits

Healthcare plan

Life assurance

Pension contributions

Various company discounts

25 days of holiday plus bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Car pooling and onsite parking

Qualifications

• Experience in Accounts Payable and Receivable functions.
• Strong knowledge of MS Excel and financial software.
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Processing purchase invoices and credit notes.
• Maintaining accurate supplier records and resolving queries.
• Posting customer payments and completing month-end reconciliations.

Skills

Accounts Payable experience

Accounts Receivable experience

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Proactive approach

Communication skills

Tools

MS Office

Workday financial system

Power Query/Power BI

Job description

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The Finance Team is looking for a Transactional Finance Assistant to join the friendly and collaborative team. This role combines responsibilities from both the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions, supporting the accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices and customer payments. The role will initially focus on Accounts Payable tasks, providing a strong foundation in supplier invoice and credit note processing, payment runs, payment allocation and supplier account management. You will work independently communicating with internal stakeholders and suppliers.

Over time, you will also work in Accounts Receivable where you will post customer payments and process refunds. Process improvement is critically important in Finance, and in this role, you will need to embrace changes in process and system developments, providing feedback on their implementation. It is a varied role that requires attention to detail, excellent organisational skills, and a positive, proactive approach to your work. You will be part of the Ecotricity Group Finance Team, reporting to the Accounts Payable & Treasury Team Leader. You will work closely with colleagues across Finance, other internal departments, and with external suppliers and customers.

Core Responsibilities

• Processing purchase invoices and credit notes
• Obtaining and verifying invoice authorisations
• Creating settlement runs as part of the weekly process and on an ad hoc basis, as well as for direct debits
• Creating and maintaining accurate supplier records
• Resolving queries with buyers and other internal stakeholders, and with suppliers
• Communicating with customers where required, primarily businesses to obtain remittances and follow up uncashed cheques
• Posting customer payments and refunds
• Completing month-end reconciliations for suppliers and customer payments
• Embrace changes in process and system developments, providing feedback on their implementation

About You

• Accounts Payable and/or Accounts Receivable experience
• Ability to work in a small team
• Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel
• Use of Workday financial system
• Power Query/Power BI knowledge

About Us

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution

Hybrid Working

Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)

Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days

Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.