Cognition Communications Ltd Hiring for Finance Manager Job at Birmingham, England Full Time

Job title: Finance Manager

Role: Fully flexible and around 18 hours per week

Reporting to: Finance Director

Start Date: December 2021

About us

Cognition is a leading UK digital marketing agency, based in Birmingham. We are part of the DXG Group with agencies in Dubai, Johannesburg, and Paris. We pioneer a blend of marketing, technology and psychology to create successful marketing and sales strategies that deliver impressive results for a breadth of organisations across multiple sectors. We are HubSpot Diamond partners and one one of the largest and longest established partner agencies.

We are growing fast with new clients across multiple territories.

Our team is dynamic, hard-working, friendly and supportive. We believe in work-life balance and provide flexible working hours to support this. Our head office is in the centre of Birmingham – just two minutes from New Street Station, though our team can choose to work from home, and on flexible hours.

Responsibilities

Purchase Ledger and Expenses

• Processing purchase invoices on Quickbooks, and arranging payment when necessary
• Processing company credit cards, ensuring that there is backup paperwork and invoices for transactions
• Processing and paying employee expenses
• Ensuring all expenditure on behalf of clients is charged on

Sales Ledger and Credit Control

• Issuing sales invoices to clients on a fortnightly basis
• Credit Control
• Aldermore (invoice discounting) uploads, cash requests, and monthly reconciliations

Financial Administration and Management

• Accruals and prepayments
• Depreciation journals
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Monthly management accounts, cash flow forecasts, rolling annual forecasts with assistance of Finance Director
• To manage the ordering, processing and payment of goods and services at best value
• To ensure up-to-date records of all expenditure and income are kept, informing the Board and Management Team about under and over spending of budgets

Cash Management

• Daily monitoring and control of bank accounts
• Regular updating of short term cashflow

Payroll

• To calculate and process salaries in Quickbooks on a monthly basis, ensuring paye and staff are paid in a timely manner.
• Uploading pension information to Scottish Widows pension scheme

Coordination of the year-end financial statements

• Assistance in the preparation of the year-end Management Accounts in readiness to send to the accountants

Requirements:

• Proven all round accounting experience
• Would suit someone who needs to work around school hours or anyone else looking for a fulfilling role within a shorter working week

Please send your cv and covering letter, stating expected FTE salary and availability to tim.w@cognitionagency.co.uk