Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant | Brize Norton | 12-Month Contract

We are recruiting for a Finance Assistant to join a major multinational organisation on an initial 12-month contract.

Working closely with the Finance Director and Financial Controller, you role will be of a support nature, supporting financial planning, forecasting and control across the business. The role combines financial analysis with operational partnering, working with teams across the organisation to understand costs, resource requirements and financial performance.

Key responsibilities:

Maintain and analyse cost, revenue and cash forecasts across the business.
Work with operational teams to forecast resource requirements and associated costs.
Monitor actual costs and revenue against forecast and provide clear variance analysis and insight.
Support financial planning, forecasting and regular operational performance processes.
Work with managers to understand, manage and control operational costs.
Liaise with Procurement to ensure open commitments and costs are accurately recognised.
Support cost allocation, journals, accruals, sales reserves and month-end activities.
Provide financial analysis and reporting to support management decision-making.
Produce meaningful management information and ad-hoc reporting
Support the invoicing process for internal and external customers.
Work collaboratively with finance, procurement and operational teams to ensure accurate financial reporting.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and support the implementation of new financial initiatives and processes.About you:

We are looking for someone with:

Some finance knowledge would be ideal - debits/ credits, cash and Profit & Loss
You will have had some involvement in cash flow forecasting, providing cost centre reports and used to dealing with coding for procurement.
Good Excel skills.
Whilst you do not need to be fully qualified, AAT or CIMA would be useful.
Experience working with government or MOD programmes would be beneficial

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