Finance Assistant

Looking for a new challenge in finance? Join us as a Finance Assistant and contribute your expertise to our team!

As a Finance Assistant, you will play a key role in ensuring accurate and efficient billing and finance processes within our organisation. You'll collaborate closely with other team members including Credit Control and Purchase Ledger.

Your responsibilities will span from timely invoicing to data reconciliation, all while maintaining excellent communication with colleagues in and outside of Finance.

Sales Ledger:

• Customer Billing: Ensure that billing data is accurate and complete and processed in a timely manner, including weekly batch processing, automated invoice distribution and uploads to the sales ledger.
• System Outputs Validation: Collaborate with operational and finance colleagues to verify system data outputs. Report any discrepancies or queries promptly.
• Collaborative Problem-Solving: Work closely with finance and operational colleagues to address billing-related issues and queries collaboratively.

Purchase Ledger:

• Shared Inbox: Monitor the shared inbox, forward supplier invoices as needed for processing, and categorise emails for further action.
• Supplier Invoicing OCR software: Process supplier invoices through the initial stages for further action by operational teams.
• Supplier portal invoicing: Assist with data processing and upload into the purchase ledger.

Month-End Tasks:

• Collaborate on month-end tasks, including accrued income and journal postings, working within an agreed month-end timetable.

Process Improvements and Coordination:

• Team Collaboration: Contribute to process improvements as relevant and needed.

Ad Hoc Tasks: Assist with any additional departmental tasks as required.

This role would suit candidates with experience in ERP systems, billing, and SME finance. As a Finance Assistant, Financial Administrator, Accounting Assistant, Accounts Clerk, or Finance Clerk, we want to hear from you! Join us as a Finance Assistant today.

• 25 days annual leave
• Your birthday off
• 6% company pension contribution
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Medicash Health plan
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption and Shared Parental leave
• 2 voluntary days per year
• Long Service Awards
• Employee Wellbeing Seminars
• CPD opportunities
• Professional memberships paid for (role dependent)

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience within an SME finance function and working in a billing environment
• Strong Excel skills and comfortable working with high-volume data
• Comprehensive knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping
• Billing accuracy requires meticulous attention to detail
• A strong ability to organise and prioritise tasks
• Effective communication with customers and internal stakeholders and the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams
• Comfortable handling various billing scenarios and systems

• Previous experience of working with an ERP system
• Problem-Solving: Proactively identify and resolve billing issues
• AAT qualification

HCML was established in 2003 and is a leading service provider in the rehabilitation and case management arena. Providing services to the insurance, corporate and legal sectors, HCML assists injured and ill individuals to recover and return to work or their pre-injury condition. We are passionate about ensuring that everyone who requires rehabilitation in the UK has access to quality, effective, co-ordinated services. We deliver added value to our clients by facilitating both speedy recovery and strong clinical outcomes, including managing appropriate treatment and care.

HCML is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships