Finance Assistant

Northern Balance- part of the SLS group, is currently seeking a highly motivated and experienced Finance Assistant to join our team in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. You will join us on a 12 month fixed term contract (with the potential to go permanent)and in return you will receive a competitive salary of £22,000 - £26,000 per annum depending on experience.

Full time and Part time applications considered.

About the Finance Assistant role:

As our Finance Assistant,you will be a valued member within the business, you’ll support the Finance Officer in ensuring financial management processes are developed, implemented, monitored, and followed. Using your initiative, analytical and meticulous approach, you’ll be highly organised and have the confidence to juggle tasks, solve problems as well as collaborate with key stakeholders to achieve business objectives and further enhance your learning.

Key responsbilities of our Finance Assistant:

• Maintaining the sales and purchase ledgers by ensuring invoices/ statements/ POs are checked/ posted/ paid/ chased where applicable and stock is accounted for
• Owning or facilitating the creation of management reports including, but not limited to month-end, departmental and operational reports to support decision making
• Resolving customers’ invoicing queries to enable a timely payment process and enhance customer experience
• Liaising with suppliers on invoicing and assist with payment runs
• Supporting with monthly payroll activities to ensure swift and accurate staff payments
• Undertaking finance administration and other duties requested by management

Our ideal Finance Assistant:

• Enthusiastic and hardworking with a polite and friendly manner
• Good administration, organisational and time management skills
• Effective multi-tasker with high attention to detail
• Critical thinker with appetite to improve processes
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Strong initiative and resilience to get the job done
• Self-motivated to work on own and as part of a team
• Proficiency in math and English
• Competency with Office applications particularly Excel
• Appetite for self-development.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Company NEST pension
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme – offer all employees access to a positive, preventative programme of information, helpful resources, referrals, counselling, training and services to help you cope with events and issues in your everyday work and personal life.
• Small, friendly, and sociable teams with staff events
• Company profit bonus schemes
• Career opportunities for development and progression

About us:

With over 150 years’ collective weighing expertise, Northern Balance is a trusted and long-standing engineering partner to critical industries such as Chemicals, Food, Drink and Pharmaceuticals. Together with our customer service, our calibrations, testing, repair, maintenance, supply and installation services are underpinned by the most stringent quality standards to help customers meet their QMS and regulatory requirements.

Our Quality team play a critical role in ensuring compliance to strengthen customer assurance and in turn, we’re committed to providing ongoing training and support to help you be the best you can be. If you’re looking to develop a career in quality management and enjoy working as part of a tight-knit, friendly team then we’d love to hear from you!

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