Finance Assistant

Fixed term contract: 3-6 months

Location:
Warwick

Are you looking for your next challenge? Baxi Heating is a leading provider of environmentally friendly and efficient heating solutions across a range of leading domestic and commercial brands. We have over 150 years of experience, pride ourselves on our values and strive for earning lifetime loyalty with our customers.

Responsible for assisting the Management Accounts Team in the preparation of the management accounts, preparing & posting journals, completing reconciliations, liaising with various stakeholders around the business as and when required.

• Balance sheet reconciliations including but not limited to Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payable, GRNI, Intercompany, Fixed Assets & Bank accounts.
• Analysing vehicle costs, posting the relevant journals and liaising with fleet manager to ensure correct Class 1A, Fuel, Hire Charges, Private Mileage are processed in the correct manner.
• Calculate the engineers bonus, gain approval and send to payroll for payment
• Managing the Credit Card process including downloading credit card spend information from central system, uploading the journals for the relevant division, new credit applications and managing cardholders (sending reminders to approvers and purchasers) and liaising with RBS on any queries as necessary.
• Raising & booking in of purchase orders for finance department
• Run Internal Invoicing for and reconcile MUC accounts
• Processing of new/changes to supplier bank details.
• Providing analysis of data either regularly or an ad hoc basis
• Calculating and posting journals for various accruals, prepayments & bulk DDs
• Headcount reporting and payroll analysis
• Compiling and distributing monthly reporting
• Ordering and Monitoring of the finance stationery and archiving
• Analysis of Benefit in Kind spend for Warwick divisions and submit to Tax Accountant.
• Reconcile the VAT including reconciling to the general ledger and checking for incorrect postings and then uploading into the new VAT reporting system ready for the Tax Accountant to consolidate.
• Month end overhead reviews comparing costs to budget and forecast and reporting back to the Finance Business Partner/Finance Director.
• Contribute to end-of-year accounts preparation.
• Ensure adherence to Company accounting authorisation procedures.
• Support the Management accounts team with annual audit, budget & year end work in addition to monthly reporting.

• Problem solving is essential in this role to enable them to assist the team and wider business with both system issues, and operational activities that affect the financial results.
• Effective communication, and conviction in communication, is vital to convey the correct message to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Attention to detail is a must due to the nature of information being collated and provided to the business, as the information is used to drive decision making and tell a story, and if it is incorrect the wrong assumptions or decisions can be made.
• Need to be self-aware as need to be careful not to project own thoughts and feelings into situations that could be detrimental to someone, and ensure people view you the way you intend them to.
• Being a team player with the ability to work as a team and individually is very important. Completing tasks either inaccurately or late has a knock-on impact onto Finance team members.
• Must be well organised and methodical with ability to prioritize workload and requests from team.
• Must be diligent and hardworking to fit in with team / colleagues.

Our package is made up of basic salary plus a variable incentive. We also offer 25 days holiday in addition to standard UK Bank holidays, income protection, a contributory pension, maternity, paternity sick pay schemes, staff discounts and more.