Office & Finance Assistant

Optimum Recruitment Group are proud to be working with a well-established and successful service business based in Leeds, who are looking to appoint an Office and Finance Assistant to the team.

Reporting into the Senior Financial Control Manager, you will play a key role in keeping the Leeds office running day-to-day, while gaining hands-on exposure to core finance processes. This role would suit someone who takes pride in helping things run smoothly, is happy to get involved in all aspects of office administration support, and is keen to develop professionally over time.

The key responsibilities for the role would be:

• Acting as the first point of contact for visitors and clients.
• Managing incoming calls, shared inboxes and general correspondence.
• Handling incoming and outgoing post, courier deliveries and distribute accordingly.
• Managing office supplies and equipment.
• Maintaining accurate and compliant storage.
• Liaising with building management regarding facilities.
• Providing day to day administration support to the team finance.
• Dealing with processing invoices.
• Supporting accounts receivable by taking payments.
• Allocating costs and recharges within the accounting system.
• Assisting with posting other accounting activities.
• Maintaining records, spreadsheets and filing systems.

As the successful candidate you need to be able to demonstrate the following skills and experiences:

• Professional, approachable, and customer-focused, with confidence acting as a first point of contact.
• Highly organised and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and take ownership.
• Strong attention to detail and a willingness to learn and develop new skills.
• Comfortable supporting a wide range of tasks – from office coordination to finance processes – and recognising the importance of getting the basics right.
• Takes pride in contributing to the team and office environment, with a positive, “no task too small” mindset.
• Strong communication skills and able to work with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Flexible and adaptable, with a positive attitude to change.
• A genuine interest in building a career in finance.

Our client is offering the following:

• Starting salary up to £29,000
• Study support: Support towards professional accounting qualifications (AAT, CIMA, ACCA or ACA).
• Career development: A clear pathway to develop within finance, with structured support, exposure to senior stakeholders, and opportunities to progress.
• Annual leave: generous entitlement, increasing with service, plus option to buy additional leave.
• Pension & protection: pension scheme and life assurance.
• Benefits platform: Access to a wide benefits package, including discounts, cycle to work, health cash plans, online GP, and Employee Assistance Programme.

This is a full time, permanent, office-based role and the working hours are flexible, but the core contracted hours are 9am - 5.30pm.