JOB OVERVIEW

We are introducing a brand-new role to our finance team.
We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented individual to support our Accounts Manager. This is a role that combines essential financial processing with valuable analytical work to drive business decisions.
This is a hands-on, analytical role that will focus on understanding and improving how we report on job-level profitability, forecast cash flow, and identify where our most profitable work lies.
You will play a key role in shaping how financial data is used across the business — you will have full ownership of creating and building the reporting tools and templates needed to make that happen.
You will work closely with the Accounts Manager and wider team, supporting them with operational finance tasks as required, but your main focus will be data-driven analysis and reporting.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 GCSEs graded 9 – 5, or equivalent, including English and Maths.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets experience (pivot tables, formulas, data handling).
• Comfortable working with and improving large, imperfect data sets.
• Able to build custom reporting tools/templates independently.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Proactive, organised, and confident managing your own workload.
• Willingness to get stuck in and improve processes, not just maintain them
• Comfortable learning new systems (including MRP/ERP/Accounting platforms) and working across teams.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Previous experience in a finance, data, or business analysis role.
• Experience with MRP, ERP or Accounting systems, especially in manufacturing or production environments.
• Exposure to forecasting and cash flow modelling.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools like Power BI, Tableau, or similar.
• Understanding of job costing or project profitability reporting

PROTOTYPE ELECTRONICS – ABOUT US

Our business is based on being Customer obsessed; we pride ourselves on our impeccable quality, responsiveness and flexibility.

We offer a professional, modern approach to electronics manufacturing, and have invested heavily in state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques and equipment, as well as investment into our people to make sure we stay ahead of our competition, as a result we offer the following rewards:

• Flexible office hours, lunchtime finish on a Friday.
• Subsidised car wash scheme.
• Payday Lottery – prizes to be won every payday.
• Employee led social committee who organise various activities – eg: Water sports, Karting, Skittles, Comedy nights, quizzes (all paid for by the Company)
• Christmas party (paid for by the Company)
• Free on-site parking.
• Tea and coffee provided
• Additional holiday at 3, 5, 10 and 15 years’ service.
• Christmas shutdown 25th Dec-1st Jan (3 days holiday between Christmas and New Year given by the Company)
• Pay Bonus at 5yrs Service. (1 week)
• Pay or Holiday Bonus at 10yrs Service (1 week)
• Pay or Holiday Bonus at 15yrs Service (1 week)
• 2 weeks holiday may be carried into the following year.

We are committed to employee growth and encourage everyone to reach their full potential; we offer in house training and always look to support the development of our staff through internal and external training programs
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 29/08/202

• Create and maintain custom financial and performance reports from scratch.
• Analyse per-job profitability using data from our MRP system.
• Work to clean, validate, and improve the quality of MRP data outputs.
• Present insights in a clear and usable format to support commercial decision-making.
• Build simple forecasting tools to support cash flow planning and resource allocation.
• Support the accounts department with day-to-day operational duties as required.
• Collaborate with other departments to align operational and financial data.
• Develop repeatable processes for tracking and reporting key performance metrics.