Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant

Contract up to 30/06/2027 initially

Based in Carterton

Offering £32ph Inside IR35

Do you have finance knowledge - debits/credits, cash, and profit and loss, etc.?

Have you got experience carrying out cash flow forecasting?

Do you want to work with an industry-leading company?

If your answer to these is yes, then this could be the role for you!

As the Finance Assistant, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry.

You will be involved:

• Support the Financial controller in transacting, understanding, and analysing operational cost, along with completing support tasks for the subsidiary; including support to payroll accounting, billing processes, treasury processes, accruals, and allocation of costs
• Maintain cost, revenue, and cash forecast for the entire business entity/business function
• Work with operational teams to forecast resource plans and cost impact
• Help record and evaluate risks or opportunities
• Assist in regular OP and FC process
• Act as a liaison for managers in understanding and controlling operational costs
• Input and advise on external costs and internal resources
• Liaison with procurement team to ensure correct evaluation of open commitment and timely recognition of cost
• Provide analysis and support to financial performance reporting
• Track actual costs and revenue allocation - understand, review, and be able to instruct journals and posting to the back office team to ensure accurate booking of cost, allocations, and revenues
• Produce meaningful analytics to support local operational management
• Assist with single resource reporting requirements
• Ensure operational spend is in line with contractual and single sourcing roles
• Ad-hoc reporting for MOD and other UK Government agencies
• Work closely with TFEU teams to coordinate end-of-month closing activities such as periodic postings, accruals, sales reserves
• To provide support the invoicing process to internal and external customers
• To identify and launch new financial initiatives pursuing continuous improvements, and challenge existing processes and procedures

Your skillset & experience:

• Be able to explain variances
• Finance knowledge, debits/credits, cash, and Profit and Loss
• Support Financial controllers
• Cash flow forecast experience
• Providing cost centre reports
• Look up coding for procurement
• AAT, CIMA would be useful

Finance Assistant

Contract up to 30/06/2027 initially

Based in Carterton

Offering £32ph Inside IR35

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