Junior Finance Assistant
The Drum, United Kingdom
Job Description
The Drum is seeking a Junior Finance Assistant to join us in providing accurate, relevant, and up-to-date financial information essential for the company's success. The role will be a 6-month FTC to cover a staff member currently on MAT leave. The role will focus on 4 main areas:
- Internal Finance Systems and Processes: Ensure adherence to and support improvement of internal finance systems and processes.
- Financial Transactions Processing: Participate in day-to-day processing of financial transactions.
- Financial Operations: Adhere to and suggest improvements for financial operations.
- Monthly Management Accounts: Assist the team in preparing monthly management accounts.
Responsibilities Include:
- Bank Reconciliation: Update and reconcile daily transactions for each bank.
- Customer and GoCardless Receipts: Allocate receipts to associated invoices.
- Intercompany Accounts: Maintain balance by processing necessary journals.
- Spendesk (virtual payment system): Match invoices to Purchase Order, code, and import purchase invoices to Sage.
- Supplier Set Up: Process new or updated supplier details.
- Support Staff: Assist with supplier or purchase queries.
- The Drum's Membership Products : Process adjustments and set up payments as required.
- Payment Plans Management: Ensure smooth operation of GoCardless and Stripe payment plans.
- Bar Tabs: Process bar tabs as needed.
- Finance Email Management: Handle and respond to emails promptly.
- Credit Cards: Manage RBS credit cards, ensuring correct coding and Sage uploads.
Attributes:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Analytical and numerate.
- Self-disciplined and self-motivated.
- Calm and structured approach to work.
- Self-confident demeanor.
Requirements
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Highly motivated with multitasking abilities.
- Ability to prioritize workload effectively.
Benefits
- We work on a hybrid model to ensure you get the best of both worlds a few days a week in our Shoreditch or Glasgow offices and the rest from home.
- 28 days annual leave
- Got that Friday feeling? We do too - we finish early every Friday!
- Supporting others is important to us and we encourage you to do the same with 2x paid charity volunteering days each year.
- We have a Culture Club to be proud of. We host a variety of fun social events, from axe throwing to book clubs and bake offs to name a few.
- We all feel under the weather from time to time but fear not, we provide Enhanced Sick Pay for all our staff.
- Having a should have gone to Specsavers moment? Our free Eyecare Vouchers will come in useful.
- Starting a family? Enjoy our Enhanced Family Leave.
- Company Pension for when it’s time to kick back and relax.
- Generous Employee Referral Bonuses.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- A creative and engaging company culture right across the business.
Who We Are
We believe that marketing can change the world for the better and that our mission is to help marketing professionals around the world to learn, make better decisions, make better marketing and be more successful.
Our vision is to create the leading destination for marketing insights in the world with a particular focus on brand decision-makers. We think of our audience first, use data intelligently, build on our innovative product range and love using the foundation of our industry creativity.
With bases in London, Glasgow, New York, Mumbai and Singapore, we inform and inspire readers with content around pillars of content: marketing, creativity, agencies, media, technology, sustainability.
We curate valuable insights in various ways:
- Via our team of journalists
- From the best-in-class work identified through our award shows
- From user-generated content via Open Mic and The Drum Network
- Via content co-created with our clients
- Through the ratings we gather from marketing services buyers on The Drum Recommends.
We deliver it to our audience through multiple channels: articles and reports; TV; audio; live in person at The Drum Labs and elsewhere; online networking/meetings; at industry events.