Accounts Assistant - 12 month FTC
Pitstone, Tring, Hertfordshire
£ Competitive
Benefits: 5% Bonus, Excellent Pension, 33 Days Holiday, Dental, High street discounts, Workplace nursery scheme, Midday finish on Fridays, Enhanced family friendly policies, Wellbeing programme, Employee assistance programme including health and finance, Onsite subsidised canteen
Skills: Accounting, Expenses, Credit Control, Analytical, SAP, Power BI, AR & AP, Audit
At Safran Electrical & Power, we recognise that aviation needs to innovate and change in order to protect our environment. We believe that future aircraft power systems will be hybrid-electric or full-electric, which is why we are working to develop and deliver advanced electrical solutions to help decarbonise flight.
The UK Safran Electrical & Power team has expertise in designing and developing electrical systems comprising generators, power conversion, distribution and control, with developing expertise in electric motors for aircraft propulsion.
If you want to help deliver this future, we are looking for enthusiastic and creative people to join our team.
As an Accounts Assistant at Safran Electrical & Power you will support the finance team, primarily focussing on delivering credit control and employee expense procedures whilst learning and working with a team of experienced finance professionals for a leading global aerospace group. You will analyse staff expense claims, checking compliance with internal policies and processing when necessary. Training will be given to take full responsibility of a portfolio of customers. This opportunity allows great exposure and learning within a world class organisation, interacting with both customers and internal stakeholders.
The Role
- Support the finance team and wider company employees with day to day credit control processes
- Process staff expense claims, ensuring internal policies have been followed and liaising with managers to resolve issues
- Help to resolve parked invoices, liaising with accounts payable team
- Reconcile customer statements and solving customer queries
- Assist with month-end tasks, reporting and reconciliations
- Ad-hoc tasks to assist with accounting
- Strong interaction with all departments and financial teams within the company as well as customers
Desirable Experience
We are looking for candidates with a range of skills and experience, but we're also keen to help people grow and develop in this role. If you have some or all of the following, we'd love to hear from you:
- Able to demonstrate a methodical and thorough approach to work
- Clear communicator both verbally and written
- Strong analytical skills
- Previous use of SAP or Power BI an advantage
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Continuous improvement mind-set
- Excellent time management capabilities
- Evidence of written English at interview stage
Get involved:
We also have a number of groups and forums onsite that you can get involved with, including Women at Safran, STEM ambassadors, Employee Forum, charity partnerships and wellbeing programme.
Our Wellbeing Programme in Pitstone aims to place employee wellbeing at the heart of our business, and we integrate it with all that we do. The programme is made up of four wellbeing committees; Healthy Minds, Physical, Social & Financial. Our enhanced family friendly policies re-enforce our commitment to providing a workplace that is both diverse and inclusive.
