Finance Associate

What We’re Looking For:
We’re on the hunt for a Finance Associate to join our dynamic team! If you’re someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and loves working with numbers to drive business decisions, this is the role for you. You’ll be the right-hand partner to our Group Finance Manager, helping us manage and analyse our finances with accuracy, precision, and a bit of flair.

What You’ll Be Doing:
We’re after someone who lives and breathes process and enjoys getting into the details of management accounts. You’ll work alongside various teams in the business, including billing, client services, and candidate care, ensuring that accounts are generated accurately and on time. You’ll also collaborate with the business insights team, making sure that the data we use helps drive smart, informed decisions. And, of course, you’ll be a key player in continuously improving our processes, ensuring we’re always working smarter, not harder.

Your Key Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable:

• Manage supplier invoices and approvals with ease
• Handle contractor and supplier payments, resolving any queries
• Keep our accounts payable ledger on track with supplier statement reconciliations
• Oversee credit card processes and staff expenses

Financial and Transactional Accounting:

• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and keep things ticking over
• Assist with weekly cash flow forecasting and bank reconciliations
• Handle cost accruals and prepayment accounting seamlessly
• Reconcile data across various systems to ensure accuracy
• Tackle any ad-hoc tasks with a positive, proactive attitude

Transactional Finance Excellence:

• Share best practices across the finance team to improve processes
• Collaborate effectively with other teams to deliver top-notch service
• Identify areas for improvement in controls and processes
• Build strong relationships and add value wherever you can

What We’re Looking For in You:

Background:

• AAT-qualified (minimum).
• Actively pursuing or interested in studying ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
• Some prior experience in basic management accounting, including:
• Accounts payable
• Balance sheets
• Fixed assets

Who are you?  

• You will have effective communication, influencing, collaboration and as well as relationship building skills 

• You will enjoy improving controls and creating process efficiencies 

• You will be curious, robust, and intuitive, driving improved financial performance within a business 

• A desire to work in a value driven environment, embracing a culture of energy and our core values 

What are the Standards & Expectations we live by? 

• We support each other to be as successful as we can 

• Treat others as you would like to be treated 

• We put our teams before ourselves 

• We think and act on what is best for the overall business  

• The minimum performance standard we aim for is top 5% of industry 

If you're passionate about finance, process improvement, and being part of a collaborative team, we’d love to chat with you. This isn’t just another finance role—it's your chance to make an impact in a business that’s shaping the future of talent. Ready to join us?

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary: Attractive base salary with the opportunity to earn more through uncapped commissions.
• Employee Ownership: We’re co-owned, meaning you have a direct stake in our success.
• Flexible Working: Hybrid work options and early finishes on Fridays to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Incentives: Individual and team rewards based on performance.
• Travel Perks: Annual Ski Summit in Italy and holiday incentives to destinations like Dubrovnik and Barcelona.
• Wellbeing Support: Free gym membership, weekly massages, and hypnotherapy sessions to keep you feeling your best.
• Paid Time Off: Birthday leave, office closure during the Christmas period, and generous holiday allowances.
• Training & Development: An intensive training programme tailored to your needs, led by our award-winning Learning & Development team.
• Company Recognition: Consecutively ranked as one of the UK’s Best Large Company to Work For.
• Award-Winning Environment: One of the most highly awarded companies in the country.
• Loads More Benefits: There’s even more we offer—just ask, and we’ll be happy to share all the details.

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and allow you to show your best self, let us know.

We understand that some people need extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and may also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview.

We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent.