Finance Assistant

Role Purpose

Support the National Finance Manager to provide essential financial and administrative support ensuring the smooth, accurate, and compliant operation of the firm’s end to end payroll processes.  In addition, the role will support with PSA, Car Fleet maintenance, Clarity travel and Client Account maintenance, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.

Core Responsibilities

• Process the monthly payroll, generating payroll reports and identifying trends or discrepancies. Provide Benefit-In-Kind (BIK) related reporting for review by management
• Completion of annual P11Ds and PSA reporting
• Address any payroll issues, queries, and disputes, resolving discrepancies and ensuring transparency
• Support on car insurance, V5C’s, fuel cards and reporting on vehicle fleet
• General client account tasks including downloading monthly statements and preparing reconciliations
• Assist with any queries from the firm’s employees regarding Clarity bookings, setting up and activating new staff or amends for existing staff
• Assist with daily cash tracking against forecast to ensure the firm has sufficient liquidity
• Undertake ad hoc tasks as required from time to time to assist in the general running of the department

Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of applicable payroll laws and regulations is essential
• Payroll CIPP qualification desirable
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Good attention to detail to ensure accuracy in all financial records and reporting
• Sound working knowledge of MS windows-based software packages, including excel

About Crowe

Crowe is a leading national audit, tax, advisory and consulting firm with global reach and local expertise. We are an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the top 10 accounting networks in the world, with access to more than 40,000 people in over 140+ countries and across more than 800+ offices globally.

Our vision is to be recognised as essential to the future success of our clients by helping them to answer tomorrow’s questions and make smart decisions that have lasting value through the highest quality audit, tax, advisory and consulting services.

Crowe is where talented people can realise their potential, are successful and enjoy what they do by making a positive difference to our clients, communities and each other.

At Crowe, our aim is to create a community where regardless of gender, identity, sexuality, race, ethnicity, education or background, everyone is valued, can flourish and achieve their full potential.

Why choose Crowe?

At Crowe we understand that it is often the culture and values of a firm that are most important when looking for a new workplace.

Whether you’re working in statutory audit, corporate tax or you’re a marketing or HR specialist, we place our people at the centre of everything that we do; promoting a collaborative, inclusive and friendly culture while remaining passionate about supporting and developing our people as they build their careers. We listen to our people and adapt to their changing needs alongside the needs of our growing business. We invest in our people to help them be the best they can be.

We value new ideas and innovation, and welcome people who are committed to making a difference by delivering excellent services to our people, clients and communities.

At Crowe, you will find the specialist knowledge, the resources and the commitment to help you build a satisfying and rewarding career, with continued learning and development, highly competitive salaries and flexible benefits.

We want to create the best environment for our people to grow and thrive and recognise the importance of offering a flexible approach to our working environment, which we would be happy to discuss with you further.

Crowe is committed to equal opportunity and diversity in recruitment and employment. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation, driving effectiveness in our teams and providing our clients with a quality service.

Entry and progression within the firm is determined solely by the application of objective criteria, personal performance and merit which is supported by a clearly defined career pathway..

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