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Role: Finance Assistant

Location: Kentish Town, NW London

Type: Permanent

Hours/Days: Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm (office based)

Salary: Up to £28k + Bonus (monthly and yearly)

My client is a well-established, innovative media firm and a fantastic SME Media Publishing business. The company, based in North West London, creates a series of magazines, newspapers and websites. With a global client base and a friendly, experienced and engaging team. This is a great opportunity to work and develop your skills in a fast growing and busy environment.

The role of Finance Assistant will be:

The Finance Assistant role involves working closely with the sales team, credit controllers and finance team, reporting into the Head of Finance. The person will be responsible for ensuring sales invoices are correctly generated and dispatched, assisting in checking sales teams’ monthly commission, as well as various reconciliations, billings, accounts receivable, purchase ledger, credit checking and providing an important support function to the Sales and Finance teams.

The Finance Assistant role will include maintaining correct & auditable records for invoices raised, posting sales journals and invoice posting to Accounts package (Sage 200), timely & accurate close-off of files / revenue stream. You will provide accurate feedback on queries, procedures and VAT issues as well as various other Billings/purchase ledger/ Finance related responsibilities.

* Focused on collecting cash, cash, cash!! (via emails, and especially telephone calls ie chasing at least 60+ clients/ day)

* Posting cash receipts (GBP, EUR, USD)

* Purchase ledger

* Billings

* processing credit card payments

* Timely dealing with client queries (once settled in)

* Assisting Credit Manager in populating new vendor forms

* Well spoken, articulate, good writing skills, able to foster good relationships with internal & external stakeholders

* Reliable, Action taker, Results driven, gets stuck into collecting cash & achieving targets

* Good attention to detail

* Office based training will be given by Credit Manager

* Any other ad hoc tasks as requested

This Finance Assistant position requires someone who is:

* A team player, eager to learn, develop, and able to take ownership of the Billing function within the business.

* Enthusiastic, hard-working, results driven, accurate and must have a can-do attitude.

* Confident and out-going.

* Possess good written, oral communication skills and excellent inter-personal skills, with the ability to deal with staff at all levels.

* The ideal candidate will have proven billings experience and have the ability to join the business with the skills experience, skills and attributes to manage the role with confidence and ability