Finance Assistant

London Source: WhatJobs

£35,000 - £40,000 / year

Finance Assistant

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Zinc - London

Reporting To: Michael Omoregbee

Compensation: £35,000 - £40,000 / year

Description

Zinc is growing fast, and our finance operations need to keep pace. Right now, day-to-day AP/AR, mailbox management and debt chasing sit with our Ops Analysts — brilliant generalists, but not finance specialists, and it's pulling them away from the work they're best at.

We're hiring a Finance Assistant to take full ownership of this. You'll be the person who keeps invoices moving, mailboxes clear, and debtors chased, turning a process that currently takes days into one that takes hours. It's a hands-on, detail-heavy role to start, working closely with our Senior Finance Manager, with a genuine path into a broader finance career for the right person.

Key Responsibilities

Own the shared Finance Mailbox, responding to and resolving queries daily
Handle daily AM-Ops requests, acting as the finance point of contact for the Account Management team
Manage subscription creation and billing setup on a weekly basis.
Run weekly reconciliations across accounts
Own debt chasing, working proactively to keep debtor days down.
Deliver the monthly invoicing cycle and manage overages.
Owning accounts payable end-to-end — processing supplier invoices, raising payment runs, and ensuring correct coding, approvals and timely payment
Help close the books to a tight cadence: OPEX by WD1, revenue by WD3
Assisting with VAT returns and other routine statutory and compliance filings.
Use Zinc's tools (Xero, HubSpot, Stripe, Sigma) day-to-day — and lean on AI tools like Claude to work efficiently, rather than defaulting to manual spreadsheet work

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

6 months - 1 year of experience in a finance role such as AR Assistant, Credit Controller, AP Assistant or Finance Assistant (this is the perfect finance 2nd job!)
Working knowledge of Xero (or similar accounting software), reconciliations and month-end close (accruals, prepayments, VAT)
Comfortable adopting AI tools (we use Claude) as part of your everyday workflow we're more interested in how you think than how fast you are in Excel
A university degree is enough - we don't require a professional accountancy qualification
Diligent with a genuinely high attention to detail, small errors in this role have real knock-on effects
Personable and proactive, you'll be chasing people (customers, colleagues) regularly and need to do it with tact
Real ambition to build a career in finance, this role will be grunt-heavy for the first six months but there is huge scope for growth, the right person will be willing and keen to take this opportunity with both hands!

What we offer

24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
£1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
Early finish Fridays (16:00)
Yearly company retreat abroad
30 days to Work from anywhere
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption)
Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
Celebrated Zinc anniversaries