We have an excellent Opportunity for a skilled Finance Assistant with experience of delivering success in a fast-paced environment to join Montagne Jeunesse / 7th Heaven based in Port Talbot, South Wales on a permanent, full time basis.
Montagne Jeunesse is a leading entrepreneurial FMCG health and beauty business which sells its brands including 7th Heaven into 93 countries around the world. Our rapidly changing FMCG business is looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to play a pivotal role in the transformation of our Finance department.
Position Overview
Working as part of the Finance team, the Finance Assistant will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the Company's financial records while supporting the efficient day-to-day running of the finance function.
The role has primary responsibility for the Order to Cash cycle, including ownership of the Sales Ledger and Credit Control function, together with responsibility for several balance sheet reconciliations and finance processes. The successful candidate will work closely with colleagues across the business, support month-end reporting and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives as the finance function evolves.
Key Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of the Sales Ledger, ensuring customer accounts remain accurate and up to date.
- Proactively manage customer debt, ensuring overdue balances are collected in a timely and professional manner.
- Produce regular Aged Debtor reports, providing analysis and recommendations to improve cash collection performance.
- Review new customer credit applications and monitor customer credit limits and credit ratings to minimise credit risk.
- Manage eCommerce account reconciliations, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded and investigated where required.
- Check, post and allocate customer payments in Sage 200 and complete bank reconciliations.
- Process fortnightly payment runs across multiple currencies, together with ad hoc payments as required.
- Maintain the Fixed Asset Register, including additions, disposals and monthly depreciation.
- Manage the employee expenses process, including company credit cards, importing journals into Sage 200 and processing payments.
- Manage prepayments and accruals, ensuring accurate monthly reconciliations.
- Assist with preparation of management accounts by completing reconciliations and providing supporting analysis.
- Provide cover for other members of the Finance team and undertake ad hoc tasks to support the wider business.
To be successful in this role, we believe that you should be able to build and maintain strong relationships, possess great attention to detail and precision. You will have excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and above all you are enthusiastic, take ownership and drive change.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful business and ideal for someone who wants to make a real difference. In return we offer an extremely competitive salary and benefits package for the right candidate depending on experience.
Montagne Jeunesse is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from everyone with the requisite skillset and experience. In accordance with the provisions of GDPR, we may collect information about you during the recruitment process. For further details about how we may use this data, please visit our website
(https://www.my7thheaven.com/gdprprivacy/) or speak with HR and review our GDPR privacy notice. By applying for this role, you are agreeing that you have read our privacy notice and are consenting to this use of your data. If you have any further questions after reviewing the privacy notice, please contact our HR department.
Pay: From £26,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
