Finance Officer

We are BIG - one of the UK’s largest and most successful marketing agencies, with 100 people helping over 350 clients, across offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Manchester. We specialise in PR, Digital, Marketing, Public Affairs, websites and design, and have delivered attention-grabbing campaigns and outstanding results for businesses ranging from start-ups to some of the world’s biggest brands. As we continue to grow, we are seeking a motivated and meticulous Finance Officer to join our talented finance team. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in financial operations in a fast-paced and exciting environment.

We are looking for an AAT (or equivalent) qualified Finance Officer (or part qualified with experience) who is an excel whizz with minimum 2 years’ experience in Credit Control, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable. The successful candidate will be an integral member of the finance team, ensuring accurate and timely processing of financial transactions, reconciling customer and supplier accounts and contributing to the smooth running of the company’s key financial processes.

The Job

You will be a team player, speedily processing sometimes complex sales and purchase invoices across our multiple marketing services. You will also enjoy working with and cajoling our client facing teams to raise their POs for purchases, obtain POs for their sales invoices, receipts for credit cards and support them in checking sales invoices as well as answering their queries, as well as those from customers and suppliers.

You will be given autonomy to manage your workload, organising and prioritising work to meet monthly financial deadlines.

On a day-to-day basis you will be responsible for the following;

• Credit Control : with polite persistence, ensuring prompt collection of outstanding payments either directly with the clients or by working with and enlisting the help of our client facing teams to reduce debtor days
• Taking ownership of the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable processes, supported by and overseeing a part-time Finance Assistant
• Preparing sales invoices, credit notes and statements
• Timely and accurate posting of sales and purchase invoices and payments
• Matching purchase invoices to POs, producing weekly supplier and expenses payment runs
• Reconciling customer and supplier accounts and resolving discrepancies
• Developing relationships with customers and client facing teams, handling queries efficiently
• Assisting with month-end and year-end closing processes, such as balance sheet reconciliations of prepayments, accruals, accrued and deferred income
• Preparing financial reports to feed into budget, cashflow and revenue forecasting
• Ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures as well as relevant regulations
• Assisting with other ad-hoc financial tasks and projects as required, such as improvement of processes and systems to automate and streamline

The Person

We’re a busy and supportive team that needs another trusted member to work closely with our creative PR, PA, Digital, Design and Marketing Services teams to ensure that key financial tasks like invoicing, approvals, and POs are completed accurately and on time. We’re looking for someone who can confidently collaborate with and chase client facing teams to complete their part of the financial process to maintain smooth operations and healthy cash flow. You’ll be the friendly-but-firm force keeping our financial processes on track.

You should be an Excel ninja with experience using accounting systems and Microsoft Office products like SharePoint, Word and PowerPoint. Bonus points if you’re familiar with time management software and implementing new systems and processes. We welcome with open arms ideas to make financial processes easier and quicker – we love a brainstorming session with our amazing Operations Manager.

If you are a super accurate financial detective, who is talented at tracking down financial variances and anomalies, we’ll get along great.

If you have a determination to meet deadlines, are a pro at ensuring client facing teams gets their tasks done, relish taking ownership and proactively improving processes, then what are you waiting for?! Apply now and let’s make some magic happen (and share a snack or two).

The Perks

We are a fast-paced independent agency, with a collaborative and supportive culture and a real emphasis on helping every member of our team achieve their potential. We value energy and commitment highly. If you’re the right person for this opportunity, you can count on :

But enough about us. How about you? Interested? Of course you are! Click apply now to tell us why you should be the newest member of our team…

About BIG

Established over two decades ago, BIG Partnership has grown to become one of the UK’s largest and most successful independent marketing agencies, with more than 90 people working on over 300 clients across offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Manchester.

We specialise in offering a fully integrated service to our clients, with core services that cover PR, design, digital and marketing. We work with businesses ranging from start-ups to some of the world’s biggest brands. Household brands, including Aldi, BP, Deloitte, Asda, Loch Lomond Whisky and Loganair, have entrusted their marketing and communication needs to us. This trust is reflected in our recent ranking for client satisfaction, where specialist consultancy, Relationship Matters, placed BIG among the top 20% of agencies globally for client satisfaction.

We are BIG on our people and culture. You’ll be working alongside colleagues who will happily go the extra mile for you, because they know you would do the same for them. Independently conducted staff surveys show BIG boasts a supportive and positive work environment, with more than 90% of its staff viewing BIG as an employer of choice. This is probably why The Herald newspaper named BIG as having the Best Employee Culture in Scotland at their recent Employer of the Year awards in Glasgow.

We’re truly a values-driven organisation. A hallmark of our ethos is our focus on staff development and an open, supportive culture.

If you're interested in working with us, you can find our open vacancies on our website, and you can hear directly from our teams about our award-winning culture and what they love most about working at BIG.

BIG Partnership is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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