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Finance Assistant
Department: Finance
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Zinc - London
Reporting To: Michael Omoregbee
Compensation: £35,000 - £40,000 / year
Description
Zinc is growing fast, and our finance operations need to keep pace. Right now, day-to-day AP/AR, mailbox management, and debt chasing sit with our Ops Analysts — brilliant generalists, but not finance specialists, and it's pulling them away from the work they're best at.
We're hiring a Finance Assistant 🧾 to take full ownership of this. You'll be the person who keeps invoices moving, mailboxes clear, and debtors chased, turning a process that currently takes days into one that takes hours. It's a hands-on, detail-heavy role to start, working closely with our Senior Finance Manager, with a genuine path into a broader finance career for the right person.
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
- Own the shared Finance Mailbox, responding to and resolving queries daily 📩
- Handle daily AM-Ops requests, acting as the finance point of contact for the Account Management team
- Manage subscription creation and billing setup on a weekly basis
- Run weekly reconciliations across accounts
- Own debt chasing, working proactively to keep debtor days down
- Deliver the monthly invoicing cycle and manage overages
- Owning accounts payable end-to-end — processing supplier invoices, raising payment runs, and ensuring correct coding, approvals, and timely payment
- Help close the books to a tight cadence: OPEX by WD1, revenue by WD3 🧾
- Assisting with VAT returns and other routine statutory and compliance filings
- Use Zinc's tools (Xero, HubSpot, Stripe, Sigma) day-to-day — and lean on AI tools like Claude to work efficiently, rather than defaulting to manual spreadsheet work 💻
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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
- 6 months - 1 year of experience in a finance role such as AR Assistant, Credit Controller, AP Assistant or Finance Assistant (this is the perfect finance 2nd job! ⭐️)
- Working knowledge of Xero (or similar accounting software), reconciliations and month-end close (accruals, prepayments, VAT)
- Comfortable adopting AI tools (we use Claude) as part of your everyday workflow we're more interested in how you think than how fast you are in Excel
- A university degree is enough - we don't require a professional accountancy qualification
- Diligent with a genuinely high attention to detail, small errors in this role have real knock-on effects
- Personable and proactive, you'll be chasing people (customers, colleagues) regularly and need to do it with tact
- Real ambition to build a career in finance, this role will be grunt-heavy for the first six months but there is huge scope for growth, the right person will be willing and keen to take this opportunity with both hands!
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What we offer 🍉
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
- 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption) 🐣
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
- Company socials, quarterly team socials
- Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
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