Finance Assistant (Global Marketing)

The Opportunity

The role of Financial Executive – Global marketing sits in the Branded Business Unit (BBU) Finance team and supports the Global Marketing teams in achieving their financial objectives in an effective and timely manner. Working in the Global marketing finance team is the chance to bring your financial knowledge to Marketing experts. We are a warm and welcoming company and would like a passionate finance professional who enjoys what they do.

What you will be doing

As a Finance executive, you will support the Global Marketing teams with various IFS, Purchase Orders, suppliers and other financial admin requests. You play a key role in facilitating their day to day for everything finance related. You will be come a key user of our financial system, IFS.

You will support our own Global marketing team during month-end : from refreshing reports to postings journals and running some Balance sheet reconciliations, you will help us ensuring we can deliver qualitative analysis in a timely and compliant manner.

You will also participate to the budgeting / forecasting process leading on the upload of data in the system. You will also support on any ad-hoc requests from the Finance controller or Head of Finance.

About you

You are a motivated and detail-oriented individual, with a first experience in a similar junior position within finance. You will have good financial skills and data analytics capability and you are eager to learn and contribute to a dynamic team. You are comfortable with excel, numerical data and financial systems. You are also able to build relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders and adapt your language to theirs.

What can we offer you?

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.