Finance Assistant – Kettering

Finance Assistant, all round bookkeeping role, Kettering, to £28,000

This multi sited business are looking to appoint a Finance Assistant to join their busy finance team

As the Finance Assistant your role will include maintaining financial records, including accounts receivable, accounts payable and payroll

The day to day responsibilities include:

• Preparing and distributing invoices, payslips and financial reports.
• Ensure payments
• Reconcile accounts
• Investigate and resolve any queries
• Preparing reports

Suited to a candidate who holds skills within accounts payable and accounts receivable, is capable of liaising with confidence and work to given deadlines with good IT skills ideally knowledge of Sage, Xero QuickBooks or SAP.

Credit Controller – Ware

Credit Controller, Ware, circa £30k + benefits. 100% onsite role. Limited onsite parking

Abacus Consulting are delighted to be partnering with a progressive business based in Ware

Working as part of a team of controllers, reporting into Credit Manager, your duties as the Credit Controller will include:

• Chasing late/non payment
• Cash allocation
• Raising credit notes
• Partnering sales team
• Query resolution
• Supporting other team members and Manager as needed

Candidates must have credit experience, ideally in high volume environment. This is office based every day. Need to be OK around dogs as will be dogs in office from time to time. Limited onsite parking so really looking for local candidates who can walk to work or easily get to the office on public transport.

Operations Manager – Corby

Site Operational Manager for a rapidly growing business – Corby, to £60,000

Our client, was founded in 1958 in Sweden to provide racking systems for service vehicles. Since then, our client has been at the cutting edge of product development, sales and service in the van storage sector and has an enviable 30-year track record in the UK. Their wholesale sector operates with Dealer Partners across the UK supplying them quality products and solutions for these partners to undertake fitting to their end customers.

Through an internal promotion and extensive business contract growth a new development opportunity has emerged to continue shaping and contributing to innovating their operations and facilities further. This is a rare opportunity to join a growing, changing and innovative business at their facility in Northants, and lead site expansion and development plans already in place.

The Role

Reporting to the UK Operations Director and working closely with the Operational Management team You will assume total responsibility for all daily site operations and financial aspects of this key production facility, including:

• Develop site operational strategy to meet goals and business aspirations.
• Health and Safety – work with the Production Manager, always ensuring a fully compliant safe operation of the facility.
• Ownership and management of the company’s ISO accreditations; ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.
• Monitoring and reporting on production KPI’s and maintain quality standards and controls.
• Planning and managing day-to-day site operations with a focus on process improvement, IT infrastructure, assessing and implementing modern and innovative processes incorporating technology, productivity, process controls, whilst achieving high levels of quality assurance and consistency of outputs.
• Management of the property and warehousing with strict adherence to preventive maintenance commitments and life cycle management regimes.
• Review, develop and implement processes to ensure effectiveness and best practise is achieved in the operations and that the growth requirement is met.
• Ensure all improvement projects are managed and delivered to time and budget.
• Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards across all processes.
• Manage site logistics and all third party contractors.

Person

This is an exciting role within a highly respected company, with a reputation for safety, operational excellence and technical competence at the cutting edge of vehicle racking. Your leadership skills will be called on to cover all commercial and financial aspects of the operations, facility management including life cycle costs, organisational and planning challenges, as well as process engineering and optimisation techniques.

We are searching for a talented up and coming professional with an aptitude for leading change in a challenging environment and would like to hear from you if you feel you can deliver real change to a business. We believe someone with a demonstrable track record in operations management in production or process engineering could bring a new dimension of thinking to the business.  Common sense and an inquisitive and logical mind-set will hold you in good stead.

Critical behaviours and attitudes:

• Adept Interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and listen to others.
• Ability to nurture and get buy in from immediate reports.
• Managing relationships with support functions.
• Excellent work ethic and problem solving.
• Enthusiastic flexible group player with high expectations of self and others.
• Excellent coaching skills and the ability to develop others.
• Completer, Finisher – Able to work under pressure, on own initiative and constantly seek to improve.

If your background is in FMCG, Waste Management or Recycling, this would be highly advantageous.

Assistant Accountant – Corby

Assistant Accountant – 12 month FTC – Corby £32,000-£35,000

Our client, a local organisation are seeking an Assistant Accountant to join their busy finance team on a 12 month FTC basis.

As the Assistant Accountant your duties will include:

• Expenses and Credit Cards
• AP/AR
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• Assisting with month end
• Cashflow forecasting
• Month End Reports

It is essential that you have held a similar role previously as an Assistant Accountant and be able to start within the next 2 weeks.

This is an office working based role.

In return our clients offer a friendly and supportive working environment and on site parking.

Accounts Assistant – South Luton

Accounts Assistant, ongoing temporary role, AR, AP, CC, Luton, £14 per hour

Our client, based in South Luton is looking for an Interim Accounts Assistant to joint their team covering Sickness.  This role is 100% Office based looking for immediately available candidates.  The role is an on-going temp contract, expectations is the role will be until the end of the year.

The position will require you to work in small hard-working finance team.

Duties:

• Accounts Payable – Match, batch & Code invoices
• Accounts Receivable
• Credit Control
• Statement and Bank reconciliations
• Date entry as well as general finance administration

My client is looking for an immediate starter who has had recent experience as an Accounts Assistant covering the above duties. Please apply today if this role is of interest and feel you are able to commit to the end of the year.

Finance Support Officer – Luton

Finance Support Officer, AAT Qualified/studier, 12 month FTC, Luton, £25,000 (School term time)

We are proud to be working for a small and well-established business in central Luton. Our client is looking for an AAT Qualified / Part Accounts Assistant to join their team to provide Maternity cover for the next 12 months. This is a100% office-based role across 2 sites. They offer excellent benefits, including free parking, 8 weeks holiday & gym Membership.

The role of our Finance Support Officer is to support the business in its effective working of financial matters in accordance with procedures, policies and the legal framework. To undertake a range of administration duties to ensure that a comprehensive support service is provided to this business unit.

This role would be ideal for someone with experience of working in finance, has strong communication, organisation and IT skills and an enthusiastic, proactive, professional approach and enjoys working in a busy and demanding role.

The successful candidate would be expected to work one day a month at the Luton Head Office.

Duties

• Responsible for all transactional level processing in the finance system
• Monitoring online payments for activities
• Responsible for the purchase ledger, purchase orders, invoices and petty cash
• Providing support for audits
• Maintaining business lettings
• Using online finance programs
• Part of the Administration team and support in the main reception area

If you are passionate about finance and possess the necessary skills to excel as a Finance Officer, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity to contribute to our organisation’s success.

Accounts Receivable Assistant – Luton

Accounts Receivable Assistant, Luton, £28k-£32k + great benefits!

Abacus Consulting are delighted to be partnering a well established business in their search for an Accounts Receivable Assistant. They have been established for over 15 years and are a major player in their sector.

Working as part of a small finance team your duties as the Accounts Receivable Assistant are likely to include:

• Processing manual invoices/credits
• Supporting sales transactions, through review of credit exposure and risk
• Responding to customer queries
• Aged debt reporting. Calculating bad debt provision
• Accounts reconciliation
• Cash allocation
• Reviewing customer credit limits and payment terms

The role is aimed at experienced Accounts Receivable candidates based in Luton area or within a reasonable commute of Luton. The role is based on Capability Green. Excellent benefits including healthcare and perkbox.

This is a great role! Don’t miss it!

Interim Senior Finance Manager – Stevenage

Interim Finance Manager. Qualified ACA, CIMA, ACCA Audit Lead (Top 4), Stevenage, £500 per day

We are pleased to be working with a well-respected Utility business in Hertfordshire. Our client is keen to secure a Qualified Accountant: Ideally ACA, with Audit background. To join their team on interim basis for 6 – 9 months.

Having recently acquired a new £200m+ business, a new opportunity has arisen to support the financial control team with the annual audit and monthly reporting of the existing businesses (In addition, there may be the need to support on elements of the financial integration of the newly acquired businesses from time to time.

Required:

• Interim Senior Finance Manager / Financial Controller who has experience of delivering Audits to Big 4 level auditors
• Technically capable professional able to articulate accounting principals and treatments clearly and justify them to auditors
• Able to write effective accounting papers
• Able to own audit queries, effectively investigating and addressing them so the Auditors are comfortable
• Vital to be hands on and to get into the detail, self starter
• Has a track record of quickly building strong relationships across business including with Finance and Commercial teams
• Experience of Oracle desirable and ability to quickly learn systems
• Ideally with infrastructure / construction industry experience or similar given revenue recognition requirements
• Support on other ad-hoc and monthly management reporting and finance activities.

Looking for people experienced in Oracle or Solid exposure to other large ERP Systems

You:

• Qualified accountant
• Previous experience at this level, in a Blue chip or Corporate environment
• Lead an audit with top 4 firms
• A team Player
• Available on Short Notice
• Looking for your next Interim Contract

Interim Head of Finance – Warrington

Interim Head of Finance, ACA/ACCA qualified, 9 months, Warrington, c£500/day

An interim opportunity for a qualified Head of Finance with strong experience of managing change and integrations, ideally within construction/ infrastructure/ engineering projects, to join the divisional head office.

As the Interim Head of Finance your role will involve  driving and supporting the business change. Responsibilities will include:

• System Implementation
• Enhancing reporting timelines
• Reviewing finance processes
• Implementing control improvements

Ideally you will be local as this role is office based 5 days per week.

It is essential that you have held a similar role previously.

Accountant

Accountant, newly qualified/finalist, broad financial and management accounts role, St Albans, c£50,000

Exciting opportunity for a newly qualified (or soon to qualify) Accountant to take key role with an expanding technology /services company.  As the Accountant your role will support the Financial Controller in the financial and management accounting process and provide leadership to an Assistant Accountant.  Your day to day responsibilities will include:

• Working with the Accounts Assistant, ensure all transaction processing (AP, AR, Payroll etc) is completed on time and accurately reflected within the ledgers
• Optimise cashflow by ensuring payments and collections are completed on time
• Maintain the accuracy and integrity of the ledgers by raising and posting journals
• Complete reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts, clearing down any reconciling items on a timely basis
• Produce all monthly management accounts and provide insight and key variances
• Support the FC with preparing the Quarterly Forecasts and Annual Budget

Seeking qualified or newly qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA Accountant. Progressive, expanding role with excellent career prospects.