Job Introduction
About Us:
Aspens Services Ltd is a market leading contract catering company specialising in school food. By combining our understanding of the education sector and our knowledge of what’s on trend in the food world, we encourage creativity and excitement in our kitchens, allowing our teams to do what they do best and provide fantastic food experiences for the children.
By providing excellent care and services to both clients and children, we have ensured the successful growth of the company and to keep up with the rapid pace of this growth, we are now looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to join the team.
The role:
As a Finance Assistant, you will support the team to meet targets by processing cashless data, effectively, accurately and in a timely manner.
- Monday to Friday
- 37.5 hours per week
- 52 weeks per year
- Competitive Salary
Benefits include:
- Private Healthcare
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Parental leave
- 25 days holiday plus Birthday
- Offers and discount scheme to save money on everyday shopping
*Please also note, our client expects all staff to share their commitment of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/young people so an enhanced DBS disclosure will be sought by the company
Main Responsibilities:
- Monthly reconciliation of cashless balance sheet control accounts.
- Acquire, collate, track and manage receipt of monthly till liability reports.
- Maintenance of multiple internal systems to ensure ongoing data accuracy and consistency.
- Ensuring transactional accounts are up-to-date and accurate.
- External invoice creation including collation of supporting evidence.
- Preparation of backing data for client invoices received and in advance of onward approval.
- Preparing journals.
- Maintaining clear and timely communication to our internal and external customers.
- Dealing e-mail queries and phone calls in a timely manner.
- Proving support to financial accounting team.
- Any other adhoc work as deemed appropriate by your line manager.
Core Competencies:
- Attention to detail.
- Able to demonstrate a strong willingness to take ownership and responsibility for their area of work.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and individually.
- Works well under pressure and to strict deadlines.
- Ability to challenge existing processes and drive a culture of continuous improvement.
- Effective time management.
- Ability to communicate effectively – at all levels, internal and external.
- Organised approach to tasks and ability to prioritise.
- Flexible approach and adaptable to change.
- Knowledge of SAP By Design an advantage (but not essential).