Finance Assistant
Location: Birmingham, B7
Hours: Mon–Thu 8:00–17:00, Fri 8:00–13:00
Salary: £29,000–£32,000
Contract: Permanent
The Role
We’re looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to support a busy accounts department with day‑to‑day financial administration. You’ll need strong accuracy, confidence with accounting processes, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Key Responsibilities
- Posting, matching and reconciling invoices
- Data entry and ledger management
- Chasing overdue payments and supporting credit control
- Managing the accounts inbox
- Handling incoming calls and basic customer queries
First 30–90 Days:
- Confident with basic accounting procedures
- Accurate and efficient posting of invoices and cash
- Managing inbox and calls independently
- Supporting the team with admin tasks
- Confident processing weekly payroll
- Supporting month‑end tasks
- Handling customer/supplier account queries with ease
- Providing reliable admin support that strengthens the wider team
Required:
- ERP system experience
- Strong Excel and maths skills
- Good typing speed (approx. 26 wpm)
- Excellent telephone manner
- Previous accounts administration experience
- SAP experience
- Sage Payroll experience
- SME background
- Team‑focused, proactive and reliable
- Strong attention to detail
- Positive, can‑do attitude
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking, tea, coffee and fruit
- Regular social events
- Paid charity volunteering opportunities
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays (with service‑based increases)
- Annual and Christmas bonuses
- Ongoing training and development
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