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About the Role
As a Finance Assistant, you will support the day-to-day financial operations of the Pure Gold Group, gaining hands-on experience in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, credit control, and banking. This broad role involves managing recurring finance processes, investigating discrepancies, maintaining financial data accuracy, and contributing to system improvements across four group entities.
Responsibilities
- Import daily sales transactions from Salesforce to Xero, ensuring system accuracy and alignment.
- Resolve data discrepancies promptly with relevant teams.
- Raise ad-hoc sales invoices and credit notes as required.
- Accurately allocate customer payments daily.
- Assist with debt recovery activities according to escalation procedures.
- Process routine client refunds following agreed controls and approvals.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date customer master data.
- Monitor and prevent duplicate client account creation.
- Monitor and organize invoice inboxes.
- Process supplier invoices through Dext, ensuring accurate coding and appropriate supporting documentation.
- Conduct monthly supplier statement reconciliations and resolve discrepancies.
- Prepare payment runs for review and approval in the online banking system.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date supplier master data.
- Assist with supplier onboarding and ensure compliance with internal policies.
- Process and verify staff expenses, ensuring claims meet policy and VAT compliance.
- Monitor invoice approval workflows and chase approvers to keep payments on schedule.
- Post daily bank and credit card transactions across multiple accounts and currencies.
- Maintain accurate records of standing orders and direct debit records for recurring transactions.
- Resolve bank and credit card queries promptly with relevant teams.
- Maintain digital and physical filing systems for invoices, receipts, and payment records.
- Support data cleansing projects across systems to improve data accuracy.
- Assist in documenting finance procedures and updating process notes.
- Contribute to system improvement initiatives, such as automating bank feeds or invoice capture tools.
Requirements
- Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in an administrative finance environment.
- Familiarity with accounting software such as Xero, Salesforce and Dext.
- Experience with Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable or bank reconciliations is desirable.
- Confident with Excel (basic formulas - SUMIFs, Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP).
- Strong numerical, time management and analytical skills, with exceptional attention to detail.
- Commercially aware, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership of tasks.
- Excellent communication skills - professional, clear, and collaborative.
- Able to manage workload and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Successful candidates will be required to undergo a thorough onboarding and pre-employment screening process, including credit checks, criminal records checks, sanctions checks, and other relevant background checks. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the satisfactory completion of these checks.
Skills
- Xero
- Salesforce
- Dext
- Excel (SUMIFs, Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP)
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Bank Reconciliations
- Numerical skills
- Time management skills
- Analytical skills
- Attention to detail
- Commercial awareness
- Proactive
- Ownership of tasks
- Communication skills
- Workload management
- Adaptability
Location
- Central London office
- Remote
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1-2 years experience
Salary/Compensations
- £30,000 - £32,000
Benefits
- Generous, matched pension scheme up to 6%
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- An additional day of leave for your Birthday
- Private Medical Insurance
- Health Cashback Plan
- Ongoing training, coaching, and development opportunities
- Regular external speakers, Company training days, and social activities
- Discounted gym memberships
- Electric vehicle leasing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Generous family leave policies
- Wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme
About the Company
- Well-established, high-growth physical gold and silver brokerage with over 10 years of success and more than £150 million in total revenue.
- Regularly featured in leading publications including the Financial Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Daily Mail, Metro and CNBC.
- Offers a refreshingly non-corporate environment where ambition is encouraged, ideas are genuinely valued, and individuals are empowered to make a difference.
- Culture built on core values: Pursuit of Brilliance, Passionate Curiosity, Thoughtful Respect, Virtuous Choices, and Positive Energy.
- Committed to development and long-term success through structured coaching, mentoring, and progression opportunities.
- Prioritises flexibility, wellbeing, and a positive, high-performing environment.
- Seeks driven, resilient individuals who want to grow into well-rounded, high-performing professionals as part of a loyal, dynamic team.
- Supportive, professional team that takes pride in its work, in each other, and in the success of the business.