Finance Assistant

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace – our online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal.

Founded in 2017, our innovative, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car, generating thousands of monthly car sales and helping us to grow to a team of over 250 across 4 locations.

Motorway is now valued at over $1 billion and is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.

We are seeking an ambitious Finance Assistant to provide administrative and financial support. Your responsibilities will include:

• Raise sales invoices and credit notes to customers
• Point of contact for dealerships and to investigate customer invoice queries
• Utilise Credit Control tools including direct telephone calls, email correspondence and ticketing platforms
• Secure customer remittance advice to ensure correct cash allocation on debtor accounts
• Timely and accurately allocate cash to customer invoices
• Reconciling complex customer accounts
• Liaising with the wider finance team, sales and account managers to ensure timely customer query resolution and facilitate collection of overdue debts
• Process supplier invoices, allocate payments and follow up with suppliers and partners as needed
• Prepare weekly payments runs
• Proactively liaise with internal stakeholders and suppliers to resolve billing or payment issues, ensuring information is both accurate and timely
• Track and reconcile bank statements
• Provide administrative support during month-end preparation
• Assisting with the annual external audit process
• Ad-hoc duties as required

The ideal candidate will be interested in a career in finance and will have the ability to work swiftly and accurately with a large volume of transactions, have a can-do attitude and be able to work flexibly within a team and have excellent communication skills. They should be able to organise their time to meet weekly and monthly deadlines.

Requirements

• Degree level qualified or part-qualified in finance & accounting or relevant field
• Experience in a similar role is essential
• Having a good understanding of typical Credit Control and Billing processes is advantageous
• Good knowledge of accounting and bookkeeping procedures
• Familiarity with accounting software (NetSuite experience desirable)
• Adaptable, able to adjust quickly to changes in processes and learning new systems and software
• Skilled in the use of Google Sheets or Excel (creating spreadsheets and using financial functions)

• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Be a self-starter with a great eye for detail and motivated to build strong stakeholder relationships
• Ability to interpret data from various sources accurately and at pace
• Flexible, adaptable and confident in your own initiative
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Motivated to become a trusted advocate for Credit Control in driving business processes

Benefits

• A competitive salary.
• Study support (more details will be provided upon applying)
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
• BUPA health insurance.
• £100 annual learning budget with access to General Assembly courses, an Audible subscription and hundreds of books and online lessons.
• Pension scheme.
• Flexible working (approximately 2-3 days in the office a week) with the option to work fully remote for a month per year.
• Top spec MacBook Pro and peripherals.
• Regular social events.
• Discounted Calm membership.
• The chance to join a rapidly growing company that cares first and foremost about its people.
• The chance to work with an experienced and passionate team with a big vision.

Equal Opportunities Statement:

Motorway is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Given the continued spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), all interviews will be conducted by phone or virtual connection to protect our candidates and employees.

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