About Us
We are representing a premium British bike company that has been changing the game with ground-breaking, award-winning designs for over 20 years. They believe everyone - regardless of age, gender, fitness, or ability - can find freedom and joy on two wheels. From our innovative e-bikes to our outstanding gravel, urban, and mountain bikes, every bike is designed to deliver an exceptional riding experience.
Backed by leading Private Equity investment, our ambitions are stronger than ever as they aim to build significantly on our premium positioning and disrupt the industry through intelligent engineering, technology, and style.
About the Role
A renowned and innovative bicycle manufacturer, is seeking a capable, well-organised, and proactive Finance Assistant to join their HQ near Hastings. In this role, you will manage the transactional areas of finance and play a key role in the month-end process, with opportunities for progression. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will interface closely with colleagues across the business.
How You Will Make a Difference
- Manage Credit Control, ensuring customers are kept well informed and followed up regularly.
- Send weekly customer statements and remittances.
- Ensure all customer accounts are fully reconciled.
- Prepare month-end postings and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Process purchase invoices for stock, freight, and duty, ensuring accuracy of landed costs.
- Process purchase invoices for overheads and CAPEX, ensuring accuracy of dimensions.
- Process personal expenses and corporate card spend.
- Prepare weekly payment runs.
- Perform daily bank reconciliations (multi-currency).
- Ensure all supplier accounts are fully reconciled against statements.
- Own shared inbox and respond to customer, supplier, and internal queries.
- Assist with improvements in financial processes and controls.
What They're Looking For
- Bright, strong academics.
- A motivated self-starter.
- Proactive and well-organised.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Initiative to identify and resolve discrepancies.
- A collaborative attitude with a willingness to learn.
- A friendly team player with strong interpersonal skills who seeks to build and maintain relationships across teams.
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written, capable of dealing with and challenging suppliers/customers.
- Intermediate level of Excel knowledge and skills.
- Experience with an ERP system such as Microsoft NAV (2009) is an advantage.
What They Offer You
- 25 days holiday + UK bank holidays, with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days a year.
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
- Flexible working options.
- Employee bike discounts.
- Pension scheme.
- Staff events.