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FreeAgent

Finance Assistant

Posted on Nov. 30, 2024

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
0 - 0 USD (yearly)

Full Time

Description

Our Finance Team

The Finance team sits alongside Risk and Compliance and People Operations within our “Head Office” department. We’re a supportive and collaborative small team, and we have some pretty important work to do.

The key focus for the Finance team is to administer and manage FreeAgent’s finances in a proper and efficient way, to provide financial information & reporting and to ensure compliance in a strong & robust control environment.

The role

We are currently hiring for a Finance Assistant.

As a Finance Assistant you'll play an important role in helping the Finance team to help meet these requirements as well as achieving their goals. You'll be responsible for recording purchase invoices within our accounting system, ensuring appropriate level of approval, and processing payments to suppliers promptly so that operations continue to run smoothly for the wider business.

Day to day, here's what you can expect:

Processing supplier invoices to the purchase ledger in a timely and accurate manner
Ensuring the right level of approval is obtained for every purchase invoice
Processing regular payment runs, ensuring suppliers are paid on time
Monitoring the Finance team email inbox, dealing with queries promptly and efficiently
Working with other areas of the business to accrue uninvoiced costs for month end reporting
Supporting the team at month end to ensure all reporting deadlines are met
Reconciling the business bank account, raising queries and resolving issues where necessary
Managing petty cash
Reconciling and processing ad-hoc payments as and when required
Supporting other team members by covering credit control and customer queries when needed
Input to ad-hoc tasks and project work, both within and outside Finance, helping to make FreeAgent a great place to work

You

Ideally you'll have:

Excellent spoken and written communication skills
Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Working knowledge of a financial ledger
Good time management and ability to meet deadlines
Experience posting purchase invoices, credit notes and payments
An understanding of accruals and prepayments
Ability to work effectively in and contribute to a small team, and listen to and encourage others
Computer literacy with a good understanding of spreadsheets in particular
A high level of attention to detail with an analytical mindset
Adaptability and be open to change
Ability to problem solve
Willingness to assist other team members when necessary
Sufficient self-awareness to identify personal strengths and areas for development; reviews and reflects on personal behaviour and is able to make adjustments accordingly

Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills listed above, we’re open to candidates looking to expand their knowledge and experience. ️

It’d be a bonus if you have:

Experience working with any of the following: Netsuite, Freshservice, Google Suite

Our work life ‍

We believe in a strong work-life balance, we don’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.

At FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!

Work pattern for this role

This is a permanent, full-time role (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm).

Depending on the experience level of the candidate, we’re open to discussing part time working patterns for this role (minimum 28 hours per week). Please state in the application form what your ideal work pattern would be.

This role will be based in our Edinburgh office, and adopt hybrid working, under an agreed pattern of 2 days from the office and 3 days at home each week. Working from home is second nature to us as we have been championing remote working for 16 years.

Perks

Annual starting salary of £23,500 - £27,000 per annum depending on experience, with room to progress to £28,500 within the band.

Our starting salaries typically leave some opportunity for growth within the band as salaries are linked to performance expectations to nurture our culture of fairness, learning and development.

We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, including (but not limited to!) the following:

33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you're with us)
Flexible/hybrid working
Private health care
Life assurance
5% matched pension contributions
Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)
Buy-as-you-earn share schemes
Sabbatical leave (unpaid)
Cycle to work scheme
Wellness webinars
Focused learning time and learning budgets
Volunteering day

About FreeAgent

FreeAgent aims to remove the stress and pain of dealing with business finances. From the very beginning in 2007, our aim was to create a product that would make an impact and improve the lives of micro-businesses in the UK. Now FreeAgent is one of the UK's most popular online accounting software providers, with over 150,000 customers.

Not to blow our own horn … but in 2024 we won the UK Customer Experience silver award for 'Customers at the Heart of Everything'. ICB LUCA Awards also named FreeAgent the 'Friendliest Software of the Year' in 2024 for the fifth time (following wins in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023). The list could go on!

From hiring our very first employee back in 2008, we’ve grown to over 250 employees who all share the same vision and values. Find out more about what it's like to work here on our Life at FreeAgent blog. If you still have questions, email talent@freeagent.com

FreeAgent is an equal opportunities employer, and we invest in our people and culture to ensure we have a happy, diverse and high-performing team. We strongly encourage applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, family or parental status.

We hope the detail in our job advertisements is informative but not limiting. Research shows, and we’ve observed, that underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role without meeting all of the criteria listed. If this feels relatable we’d encourage you to apply, even if you think there may be areas for development.

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