Join our finance department as a part-time Finance Assistant, supporting key finance tasks in a dynamic environment.
About Us
Swift Research is an established market research agency based in Wetherby, working with both national and international clients across a wide range of sectors. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, often bespoke research solutions through a mix of online, in-home and face-to-face methodologies.
It's an exciting time to join us. Now an employee-owned company, our people have a real voice in shaping the future of the business and share in its success. Despite our growth, we've retained our close-knit, supportive "family-feel" culture where collaboration, innovation and pride in our work are at the heart of everything we do.
The Role
The Finance Assistant supports a range of key transactional finance tasks, ensuring accuracy and efficiency across the team. You will report directly to the Finance Director.
About You
This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional seeking a fast-paced, varied role within a small team.
* Experience as an Assistant Accountant or similar finance role
* Exposure to credit control is part of your responsibilities.
* Strong attention to detail and a proactive approach
* Ability to work confidently in a small team and manage your own workload
* A positive, hands-on attitude and willingness to support wider finance activity
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
* Data entry
* Checking and amending data in spreadsheets
* Raise invoices
* Filing of paperwork
* Casual payroll
* Reconciling the credit card statements, posting all charges to the ledger, and ensuring that cards don't exceed their credit limits.
* Managing petty cash
Skills And Experience
* Confidence to communicate both internally & externally
* Excellent attention to detail
* Good organisational skills
* Ability to prioritise workload
* Any other accounting duties reasonably required by the Finance Director.
* Willingness to learn and desire to improve current processes
* Experience with Sage 50 accounts, Sage payroll, and Excel
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: From £13,000.00 per year
Expected hours: 18.75 per week
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Free parking
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Profit sharing
Work Location: In person