Finance Assistant

Job Description

Finance Assistant Location:

Leeds City Centre, West Yorkshire

Contract:

Permanent, Full-Time Salary:

£20,000-30,000 Working hours:

Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Role Description Protect Group is a business founded by an ambitious entrepreneur James and a highly experienced and successful entrepreneur and investor David. After rapid growth over the past 12 months, resulting in new offices across 4 regions of the world, Protect Group are now growing the finance team at our Leeds HQ.

'Protect People'

are individuals bursting with talent, ambition, commitment and love; we at Protect are a family of friends with a shared dream. This is not a job, it's a life and a very enjoyable one at that. You will love the people you work with, care about what you do and have the opportunity to work in a varied and interesting role which offers learning experiences that will allow you to grow with the business. At Protect it's the people that make the difference and this is everything.

In terms of what we do, we provide Membership Programmes that operate a variety of benefits centred around the distribution of Event Protection and Refund Protection. In the Event, Transport, Travel, Accommodation and Sports sectors worldwide.

We are looking for a motivated individual who will be reporting to the Financial Controller, with a scope to learn and progress within the organisation. Some study support may be available and can be discussed for those that are part qualified.

Main role responsibilities: -

Assisting with and eventually managing payroll for the group (including overlooking payroll for foreign entities) and some HR matters, -

Accounts Receivable - invoicing, setting up new client records, credit control, chasing debts, responding to invoice queries, reporting discrepancies and problems, allocating payments -

Accounts Payable - dealing with supplier invoices and payments, -

Dealing with financial transactions in Xero across multiple bank accounts and currencies and across multiple entities, -

Assisting with reconciliation of some balance sheet items, -

Assisting with month end routine, -

Running reconciliations for large volumes of transactions, -

Assisting with some travel/office bookings and purchases, -

Participating in ad hoc projects and reporting within finance department (as well as outside the department from time to time), -

Taking ownership of some office administrative tasks.

Candidate skills and requirements: -

You will be AAT and/or part ACCA/CIMA qualified (or similar) , -

You will have experience working within accounts, payroll and finance role (min. 3 years), -

You will have excellent attention to detail and excellent communication skills, -

You will have strong IT skills, with working Excel knowledge, experience with Xero will be an advantage, -

You will be organised, confident and have a high degree of personal integrity, -

You will be self-motivated with a "can do" attitude and good time management skills, comfortable dealing with incomplete information and meeting tight deadlines, -

You will be experienced with working in a team as well as using your own initiative. -

You will be confident, outgoing and happy to interact with individuals, businesses and authorities, inside and outside the organisation