Senior Finance Assistant

Senior Finance Assistant

Location:

Huddersfield / Hybrid

Department:
Finance

Contract type:
Permanent

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Assistant to join our Finance Team and play a key role in successfully leading a team of finance assistants responsible for the organisation’s purchase ledger and sales ledger processes, encompassing our company values and driving a continuous improvement culture.

Activate Group is a growing UK business with 1,000+ team members nationwide. This is an exciting opportunity to build a long-term career with a company that values its people and offers genuine development and progression opportunities.

• Prepare and post journal entries, managing accruals and prepayment schedules
• Support month-end and year-end close processes
• Assist in producing financial reports for internal and external stakeholders
• Manage and complete reconciliations of general ledger accounts and calculate rebates
• Managing supplier and customer relationships and escalations
• Support forecasting and cashflow monitoring
• Manage supplier payments and employee expenses, ensuring prompt and accurate processing
• Adhere to Group finance policies and internal controls, highlighting errors, risks or process weakness to the financial controller
• Support the finance team by providing guidance and training where necessary
• Liaise with other departments where required
• Adhoc duties given by the financial controller

• AAT Level 4 qualified (or equivalent)
• Minimum of 2 years in a finance or accounting support role
• Strong understanding of double-entry bookkeeping, accruals and prepayments
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and accounting systems
• Excellent attention to detail, time management and organisational skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative approach to problem solving

• Experience with Xero and Sage accounting systems
• Advanced excel skills
• Experience working in a high volume transactional environment
• Familiarity with UK VAT rules and returns

• 33 days holiday, including bank holidays
• Personal health cash plan– claim back the cost of everyday healthcare such as dental and optical check-ups
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay
• Life assurance at three times your basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fresh fruit
• Abirthday surprise for everyone

At Activate Group, we want everyone to have the tools and support they need to do their best work. We’re an innovative business that continuously reviews and improves our systems, processes and ways of working, making sure they support our teams to do their jobs effectively.

Every role at Activate Group is aligned to our wider business vision and purpose –
making someone’s bad day better. You’ll understand how your role contributes to the bigger picture and how your work helps deliver excellent outcomes for customer and partners.

We believe work should be enjoyable. We make time to celebrate success, recognise achievements and bring people together at team events and company-wide celebrations. We’ll also support your ongoing development through regular feedback and career planning.

Whether you’re based in one of our contact centres in Halifax, Peterborough or Huddersfield, working at an Activate Accident Repair (AAR) site, or working from home, you’ll be part of a supportive culture where people are encouraged to succeed.

Activate Group is a fast‑growing business approaching 1,000 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK’s largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in road incidents through our contact centres in Halifax, Peterborough and Huddersfield.

We manage every step of the repair journey - repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair (AAR) body shops, as well as through a UK-wide network of trusted independent repair partners.

We also work with the UK’s largest vehicle manufacturers, supporting their approved repair programmes, and deliver innovative technology solutions to fleets, vehicle repair centres and dealerships.

Our purpose underpins everything we do:
Make someone’s bad day better.

Our values define how we work with our team members, customers and suppliers:

• Make it happen
  – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better
  – Be bold. Challenge the norm - make small improvements often.
• Win together
  – Be a team player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.