Finance Assistant

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The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Finance Assistant

Site Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK

Contract and Shift details: Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week) – Mon / Wed / Thurs / Fri – Hybrid working, Tuesday’s onsite

Are you:
- Are you interested in a finance career and looking for your next professional challenge?
- Highly organised with proficient Excel skills (pivot tables and VLOOKUPs)?
- Seeking a position that allows for personal growth and the opportunity to share innovative ideas?
If so, we’re interested in hearing from you!

About the Role:

We are pleased to announce that our Finance Team is expanding, and we are seeking a Finance Assistant to become a part of our organisation.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing cash allocations, processing payments, supporting credit control, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

This role has evolved from part-time to full-time due to the growing needs of our business – a testament to the opportunity for development and career progression here at NMR.

Key Responsibilities:
- Posting and allocating cash, cheque, direct debit, and credit card receipts
- Processing journals and reconciling postings between finance systems
- Completing monthly bank reconciliations and ensuring unreconciled transactions are addressed
- Processing customer refunds bi-monthly
- Supporting the Credit Control and Purchase Ledger teams as needed
- Implementing new processes and contributing to improvements across the department
Key Skills and Experience:
- Proficient Excel skills (including pivot tables and VLOOKUPs essential)
- Some experience in finance, particularly in cash management or credit control
- Knowledge of Dynamics365 and/or QuickBooks (Desirable)
- Studying towards AAT or ACCA (Desirable)
- Attention to detail, with strong organisational skills
- Valuable contributor who brings an upbeat attitude and readiness to help the group
- Adept at managing transitions and helping motivate the team

Decoding milk data, building robust insights.

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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Questions about this role?

If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Salvatore Munago via [email protected].

Supporting your application

We work with a number of external partners to ensure that our application process is as comfortable as possible, regardless of your circumstances or background.

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