Finance Assistant

at  Trade Nation Financial UK Limited

Who we are
We are Trade Nation. We help our customers power up their trading through killer insights, transparent costs, and fairer ways to trade. We’re innovators, and proud of it. And we’ve grown a lot in our decade as a market-leading low-cost trading powerhouse. Our reach is global through our teams in the UK, Australia, South Africa, Seychelles and The Bahamas.
Founded on transparency, forged in trust and powered by people, we’re committed to empowering our customers to outperform the markets. How? By minimising expenses and harnessing technology to prioritise the lowest trading costs.
But enough about us. Let’s hear about you.
Who you are
You’re something special. You pride yourself on being unique and bringing your own history to the table – finding solutions to daily challenges in a way that can’t be done by anyone else. Maybe you talk a big game, maybe you don’t. The important thing is that you do what you say and follow through to see every customer thrive.
You don’t play with the bumpers up. That means breaking out of your lane when needed to help others – or forging your own completely. Every problem is our problem and that’s how you see it too. Because Trade Nation’s people have a shared vision, and you want to be part of making it a reality.
You know when to take the right sort of risks, the ones that push you to be better. You’re not afraid to try, fail, and then try harder. But don’t worry, you’ll have all the support you need to thrive with us at Trade Nation, and we can’t wait to enable you to learn and grow.
Ready to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in?
Our commitments to each other

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Possesses fine attention to detail.
• Strong and confident communicator, and experience of working within a team.
• Enthusiastic and eager to learn new processes and systems
• Well-organised and proactive with time management .
• Able to work under pressure and independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to use prior knowledge and experiences to solve problems.
• Shows a genuine interest in finance/accounting.
• Confident intermediate level Excel user (e.g. able to produce pivot tables from scratch and use VLOOKUP’s)
• Previous experience in AP.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Able to grasp importance of working in a regulated environment and adhering to FCA or equivalent regulator rules
• Previous experience of Xero accounting system (desirable but not required) or other accounting software

• Processing purchase invoices, managing purchase ledger by ensuring costs/VAT accounted for correctly and settling invoices on the accounts payable (“AP”)
• Monitoring of group AP inbox and liaising with suppliers to resolve queries
• Processing employee expense claims and credit cards in line with company policy and adhering to strict Matrix of Authorities (“MoA”)
• Preparation of weekly payment run/setting up payments in bank
• Performing daily/monthly bank account reconciliations using the Xero accounting system
• Assisting in the daily liquidity analysis and managing of cash amongst the group
• Preparing daily trading P&L reports for management review
• Assisting with month and year end reporting, including liaising with financial auditors across the group
• Assisting with any other ad hoc bookkeeping and management accounts tasks
• Helping support transition to greater efficiency on AP workflows