Location: Wetherby, West Yorkshire
Department: Finance Team
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
Benefits
- Starting salary of £13,000 for 18.75 hours per week (£26,000 FTE)
- 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) + up to 5 additional loyalty days
- Company profit share scheme
- Employee-owned; automatically become a company partner after 12 months’ continuous service
- Pension scheme
- An additional day off for your birthday and anniversary of joining Swift
- Christmas Closure - an additional 3 days holiday
- Health cash plan (claim back the cost of treatments eg: dental, optical etc.)
- Flexible benefits portal with instant access to 100's of perks, benefits & discounts
- Two off-site social events a year
- Great location just off the A1(M) offering an easy commute without public transport
- Free on-site parking for all staff
Location & hours
- The role is located in Wetherby, West Yorkshire
- Part-time (18.75 hours per week)
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