Finance Assistant

• We’re looking for a Finance Assistant to join our Group Finance team in London
• You’ll be a hands-on part of the month-end close across several group companies, and the role goes beyond transactional processing: you’ll own the monthly white-label commissions process, contribute directly to the management accounts and analyse the numbers behind them, so the business understands what’s driving performance
• You’ll also be responsible for bank postings at journal level, and we want you to make that work smarter. A large part of this role is spotting manual, repetitive processes and automating them, using NetSuite, Excel and AI tools
• Your work will be reviewed and approved by your line manager, and you’ll work closely with the Data, Treasury, Operations and European finance teams, as well as the Financial and Internal Reporting teams
• Prepare and post month-end journals in NetSuite to the close timetable, often on working day 1 or earlier
• Prepare prepayments and accruals
• Prepare the stock journals and stock
• Post revenue entries, including travel cash partner income, open banking payment-processing income and the sales ledger (including recharges)
• Complete the profit transfer and close out the accounts receivable
• Contribute to the monthly management accounts at group and legal entity level, including professional fees analysis
• Import bank transactions into NetSuite, post them at journal level and complete bank reconciliations for five entities, leading the work to automate these postings
• Post the client liabilities journal and complete the banking
• Prepare APP fraud journals and reconciliations across PLC and
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations (for example salary advances and reward income), investigate and resolve variances, and net off intercompany balances before group
• Set up bank payments for payment runs and ad hoc payments, and support the safeguarding of client funds
• Run NetSuite transaction listings for fixed asset accounts, capture new additions and propose capitalisations for approval
• Post monthly depreciation and amortisation and keep the fixed asset register up to
• Own the monthly white-label (WL) commissions process end to end, starting with pre-month-end data checks on the Equals Connect commission system and raising data issues with the Data
• Download commission reports, apply adjustments, and maintain the key files (All Deals, Drawdowns and related files) for UK and Europe
• Prepare WL commission journals and balance sheet checks, and produce month-on-month analysis that explains movements to finance and commercial stakeholders
• Produce affiliate invoices and payment files for review, check that European WL invoices are on NetSuite, and keep Treasury and Operations informed of upcoming payment amounts
• Prepare the staff commission accrual recharge invoice for
• Investigate and document variances between commission data and revenue
• Analyse general ledger balances, P&L movements and costs against budget, and turn the data into clear commentary for the Finance Manager and budget holders
• Identify manual, repetitive tasks across finance processes and redesign or automate them using NetSuite, Excel and AI tools, documenting the new process and measuring the time saved
• Work with the AP and AR teams to keep ledgers accurate, carrying out internal control checks on purchase ledger, sales ledger and bank balances
• Support the Financial Reporting and Internal Reporting teams with ad hoc analysis and projects across the wider business
• Provide audit samples and supporting evidence for external

Benefits

• Contributory pension
• Life assurance
• Health insurance through BUPA
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers a 24/7 confidential advice line for health, bereavement and other areas of support
• 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off
• We are members of the cycle to work scheme
• We offer Season Ticket Loans
• Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere
• Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers
• Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills- This role suits someone with solid finance experience who is studying for ACCA (or is ready to start) and wants a role that grows with them as they progress
• A driver of change: when a task is repetitive, you see it as something to fix and follow it
• A confident communicator who can chase information and explain numbers clearly to non-finance colleagues
• Working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping, journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations, plus some exposure to month-end close or management accounts
• Accurate and organised, comfortable working to tight month-end deadlines and prioritising your own workload in a fast-paced environment
• Curious and analytical: you want to understand why a number has moved, not just that it
• Strong Excel skills: pivot tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, SUMIFS and handling large data
• Committed to completing the ACCA
• Keen to learn and develop and motivated to complete your ACCA
• At least 2 years’ experience in a finance or accounts role, ideally in financial services, payments or fintech
• Studying towards, or part-qualified in, ACCA or
• A track record of improving or automating a finance process, such as building templates, using Power Query or macros, or setting up system rules
• Experience using AI tools to speed up or improve finance
• Experience with NetSuite or a similar cloud
• Exposure to multi-entity or multi-currency accounting, intercompany or commission