Finance Assistant

Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 125 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies, and markets.

Linking millions of assured data points, Janes Open-Source Intelligence creates a framework of interconnected national security insights that allows our customers to better understand emerging threats, integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment, and to deliver a more complete and accurate answer to their intelligence analysis. Using Janes, enables our customers to better use their scarce resource more effectively, to support better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.

Job purpose

Janes is looking for a highly motivated entry-level professional to join our Finance team as a Finance Assistant. In this role, you will provide essential support to our Financial Operations, with a focus on Order to Cash processes, while also assisting our Financial Reporting team with management and statutory reporting. This position offers a unique opportunity for a driven individual to embark on a long-term career in Finance, gaining valuable exposure to the full spectrum of Finance department activities.

How you will contribute at Janes

• Supporting Order Management to review orders, highlight errors, gaps and discrepancies and collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve.

• Assisting Accounts Receivable and Credit Control team with managing queries, analysing customer ledgers, providing statements and reconciling payments.
• Performing bank and credit card reconciliations
• Owning the accounting review of expense reimbursements
• Calculating and inputting journals into ERP system (NetSuite), retaining supporting documentation including liaising with relevant stakeholders to obtain support
• Assisting with balance sheet reconciliations, spotting discrepancies and identifying solutions/corrections
• Preparing intragroup recharge invoices and reconciling closing balances
• Helping manage group audit requirements including assisting in preparation of financial statements and responding to audit queries/sampling across financial operations and financial reporting teams

Requirements

• Detail and target focused – a natural problem solver
• Driven and well organised – able to work to tight and competing deadlines
• Strong communication skills – confidence to liaise across functions and engage with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders
• Good working knowledge of standard work software (Word, Excel), ideally with some experience on CRM/ERP systems (preferably Salesforce/NetSuite)
• Experience working in a finance role or studying for a finance related qualification would be preferred, although strong academic background with plans to study for professional qualification are welcome too.

Benefits

• 27 days of annual leave  
• Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)  
• Leave- study/ volunteer/ reserve forces
• Pension plan (6% employer contribution) 
• Private medical insurance – Vitality
• Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay)  
• Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks) 
• Life cover  
• Access to GoodHabitz
• Access to an on-site gym

Last updated on Jul 24, 2024