Finance and Administration Assistant - Towcester, United Kingdom - KW Special Projects

Description

Finance and Accounts Administrator

Location:
Silverstone, Northamptonshire


Contract:
Full time/ permanent


Report to:
Financial Controller


Salary:
£25,000-£30,000 PA


About KWSP
KW Special Projects is a high-performance design and engineering solution provider at the heart of the Silverstone Technology Cluster.

KWSP uses the speed and agility of the motorsport industry upon which it was founded to provide cutting-edge, on-demand design and engineering services.

By transferring knowledge and technology from one sector to another they develop novel solutions to their clients' challenges which have led to them working on projects from Additively Manufactured Batteries through to equipment for Professional Sports Teams.

However, they are still most well known for their expertise within the Automotive & Motorsport world and to this day continue to leverage their motorsport DNA to deliver complete engineering solutions for high-performance and niche vehicles.

Our capabilities include

• High Performance Engineering
• Digital Fabrication
• Additive Manufacturing
• Automation
• Lightweight structures and composites
• Industrial Inkjet
• High Performance Engineering

project management

• Special purpose machine design and manufacture

About the role

This role will include:

• Processing of purchase orders and invoices
• Processing sales orders
• Creating KPI's for supplier performance
• Expediting outstanding purchase orders with suppliers
• Reconciliation of supplier accounts and dealing with supplier queries
• Payment of invoices
• Raising and processing Sales invoices
• Ensuring payments are received on time, chasing customers where necessary and dealing with customer queries
• Set up of new suppliers
• Dealing with internal purchasing queries
• Working with the procurement team to ensure smooth payment processing
• Processing Credit card transaction
• Processing Staff Expenses
• Receiving and processing daily posts
• Any other adhoc tasks

Opportunities for Career Development
KWSP is a small but growing business.

For someone with the right "can do" attitude, technical skill and initiative there may be future opportunities within the business.

Person Specification:
Core competencies and experience.

Applicants will preferably have:

• Purchase ledger experience desirable
• Experience using accounting software (Quickbooks)
• Excellent attention to detail
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to prioritise own workload & work on own initiative
• Approachable and adaptable
• Very good organisational skills
• Confidentiality

The successful applicant will be;
- self-motivated,
- have high integrity.
- honesty
- able to demonstrate precision and attention to detail including good record-keeping.
- able to work effectively under time pressure.
- flexible
- able to work within business health and safety requirements.

The role may require you to work out of main office hours or to travel around the UK or abroad and spend periods of time with our customers off site.

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.

Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Pay:
£25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Free parking
• Onsite parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Towcester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• QuickBooks: 1 year (preferred)

Purchase Ledger: 1 year (preferred)


Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location:
In person