Finance Assistant

Hemel Hempstead , United Kingdom
full-time

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Join a rapidly growing IT solutions provider and take on key responsibilities in finance, ensuring accuracy in financial processes and supporting operational excellence.

Finance Assistant
Based:
Hemel Hempstead, with hybrid working
Type:
Full-time
Salary:
Up to £35k
Eligibility
: You must be eligible to work in the UK

The Academia Group are a rapidly growing IT solutions provider, and we're looking for a solid finance assistant to add value to the team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assisting in purchase ledger, including matching & posting invoices, managing credit notes and monthly reconciliation.
  • Managing the queries relating to supplier accounts
  • Managing finance mailbox
  • Producing sales invoices
  • Dealing with customer queries on a daily basis
  • Assist credit control on outstanding queries
  • Daily bank reconciliations
  • Processing staff expenses
  • Making payment runs/managing a direct debit system
  • Reconciling Supplier statements
  • Support the month-end close process including assisting with accruals and prepayments
  • Perform balance sheet reconciliations and investigate variances

About you

  • At least 2 years in a similar role
  • Exceptional standards in quality of work
  • Productive and efficient
  • Excellent grasp of job-related knowledge
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Establishes and maintain constructive working relationships and is a team player
  • Enthusiastic communicator
  • Deadline achiever
  • Excellent time management
  • Able to demonstrate drive and ambition
  • Fulfil senior managers expectations and timely report back requested information

About Us

Academia Group is a leading UK IT solutions provider, specialising in technology for education, public sector and commercial clients.

Following recent growth and the acquisition of Smartdesc into the group, we are now entering a new phase focused on operational excellence, scalability and culture.

With a turnover of over £140m, 300+ staff and a target EBITDA of £6m+, we are building a unified, values-driven organisation that empowers people to perform at their best.

Benefits

  • Gym membership contribution    
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Increased annual leave with length of service    
  • Free annual leave on your birthday   
  • Length of service bonus   
  • Flexible working hours  
  • Hybrid working  
  • Free Will Writing service  
  • Life Insurance    
  • And much more!  

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible working hours
  • Health Insurance: Health Cash Plan
  • Life Insurance: Life Insurance
  • Paid Time Off: Increased annual leave with length of service

Smartdesc is an IT Service Provider and Microsoft Gold Partner whose focus is not-for-profit organisations, which includes charities, social enterprises, and the public sector in the UK. We work with large household names like Mind, YMCA and WaterAid, as well as a diverse mix of other charities and nonprofits. We provide a range of IT Services including Strategy & IT Leadership, Cyber Security, Helpdesk Support and Project / Programme Management - tailored to non-profits and delivered through proactive partnerships with our customers. Staff who work for Smartdesc are of the highest quality, and one of the main reasons for our success. We promote from within, pay for your training and certifications, and have fun in a growing and exciting atmosphere. This means staff stay with us for years, because we invest heavily in them - our retention rate is 98% which is far above the competition. We are a flat management structure without internal politics, and staff are given a high degree of autonomy to do their jobs to the best of their ability. We celebrate success as a team and you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in a diverse range of cutting edge technologies and systems, and never pigeonholed into one single area. Successful candidates deliver exceptional customer support through effort, integrity and honesty. Smartdesc deliver ethical, transparent and customer focused IT services; new team members are carefully picked to ensure they enhance Smartdesc’s ethos and share our values. Since incorporation in 2012 we have grown to over 70 staff and are projected to have a £5M turnover in our current Financial Year.

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£35,000 per year
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