Junior Finance Assistant

📍  Location: Redhill 💰  Salary: £24-25k

🗓️  Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time     🏢  Sector: Finance & Accounts

The Role

Are you an organised, numbers-minded individual looking to kick-start your finance career? We’re recruiting a Junior Finance Assistant on behalf of a well-established group of companies, where you’ll gain broad exposure across Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, Cash Book and General Ledger — giving you a fantastic foundation in all areas of transactional finance.

This is a great opportunity to join a supportive finance team, build core accounting skills, and grow with a business that takes development seriously.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Processing Purchase Ledger invoices accurately and on time — logging, distributing for authorisation and matching to Goods Received Notes
• Processing approved employee expenses
• Entering cash book transactions (payments and receipts) and allocating cash to Purchase and Sales accounts in the ERP system
• Completing bank reconciliations throughout the month
• Processing payments and entering manual Sales Ledger invoices where required
• Liaising with suppliers, customers and internal departments to resolve queries
• Meeting monthly ledger close deadlines and maintaining accurate filing and archiving of documents

What We’re Looking For

• Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
• Good numerical skills and comfort working with figures day-to-day
• Good interpersonal skills — you’ll be dealing with suppliers, customers and colleagues regularly
• IT literacy, particularly Microsoft Office (Excel experience a bonus)
• A proactive, organised approach and the ability to meet deadlines
• Previous experience in a finance or accounts environment is beneficial but not essential — full training will be provided

Interested?

If this sounds like the right next step for you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now or get in touch directly to find out more.

Specialist Recruit Ltd acts as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

By applying, you confirm that you are happy for us to hold and process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which can be found on our website.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we are only able to respond to candidates who meet the stated requirements. If you have not heard from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.