Assistant Accountant

At Bionic, we're making life radically easier for small business owners. We're building a one-stop shop for business essentials that's powered by smart technology and world class human service giving them an experience so good that they trust Bionic to sort all their business needs for them. 

To support our continued growth and exciting plans, we're looking for an Assistant Accountant to join our Finance Team.  

This is an excellent opportunity to start your career in finance within a team where you will have the opportunity to continue your studies whilst learning from a wide variety of highly experienced professionals. 

About the role 

This role is required onsite in our London office 3 days a week.

Our Finance team provides insight and operational financial support to our business to drive growth and promote a strong financial position. Over the last few years, the Finance team has grown significantly to give the business the infrastructure and capability to support its level of growth. 

As an Assistant Accountant in Accounts Receivable you'll be part of a team responsible for our accounts receivable finance processes. These processes include maintaining the internal company accounting system, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of our records, and building relationships and reporting to our internal stakeholders. 

Alongside your in-role development, we also offer a £7k fully comprehensive study support package for ACCA or CIMA along with 20 days study support per calendar year to aid personal growth. 

In this role, you'll be: 

• Reconciling customer self-bill invoices and payments with varying degrees of complexity 

• Managing the quality of data stored in the sales register 

• Assisting the commercial managers with customer account reconciliations 

• Investigating billing discrepancies and raise customer queries direct with energy suppliers 

• Working with the Commercial Director and Commercial Team to produce reports which will aid them in making decisions to drive business forward 

• Working in conjunction with energy suppliers to build relationships to overcome issues and work towards improving processes 

• Raise invoices and monitor AR inboxes resolving customer queries 

• Chase overdue invoices and ensure that aged debtors are kept to a minimum 

• Running month end reports within tight deadlines, ensuring accuracy first time 
  

About you 

• You'll enjoy or want to work, in a fast paced, fun and lively environment 

• You'll be looking to start or complete your ACCA or CIMA studies (we offer £7k fully comprehensive study support package for ACCA or CIMA along with 20 days study support per calendar year) 

• You might be in your first finance role, looking for your next move 

• You're highly organised and able to prioritise your workload 

• You can work independently while hitting deadlines 

• You're a confident communicator 

• You're analytical and a problem solver, with a continuous improvement attitude 
  

About Bionic Group 

Bionic has over 630 people working across three office locations and four businesses; Bionic - London, Bionic Outbound - Luton, Think Business Loans - Chelmsford, and Smart - Field based agents. 

We have a high energy work environment wherever the location; you can feel the passion the moment you walk through our door! Our work environments are packed with amazing people and energy, hubs of collaboration, creativity and fun! We're one team, we get stuck in, we roll our sleeves up and we care about helping each other out wherever we can. We set the highest standards and show up every day to be the best version of ourselves. 

Working at Bionic means provides you many opportunities to advance your career, with incredible progression, recognition, and reward. 

Benefits 

We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors, our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks. 

In addition to a £7k fully comprehensive study support package for ACCA or CIMA along with 20 days study support per calendar year for this position, we also offer: 

Enhance your health & wellbeing 🌱 

• Private healthcare cover 

• Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies 

• Eyecare scheme 

Taking time away from work 🏖️ 

• 25 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays, increasing with tenure 

• 1 paid family/religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period 

• 1 paid charity volunteering day per year 

• Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year 

Family matters: for the special moments 🏠 

• Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave 

• 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service 

• Flexible working options & a hybrid work approach 

Financial wellbeing 💸 

• Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme  

• Life assurance 

• Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home - based on tenure 

• Cycle to work scheme 

Recognition 🌟 

• Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success 

• Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition  

• Long service awards