Finance Assistant

We are looking for a Finance Assistant to work as part of our Finance team in a fast-paced, commercial environment.

What you'll do

In this role, you will play a key role in keeping day‑to‑day financial operations running smoothly. 

You will confidently handle financial transactions, keep accurate records, complete your month‑end tasks, and ensure everything aligns with internal controls. 

You will provide reliable support across banking, purchase ledger, debt management, and audit preparation, helping to boost the overall efficiency and accuracy of the finance function. 

You will build strong, positive working relationships with auditors, wholesalers, suppliers, customers, group services, and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. 

Operating within a high‑revenue, tight‑margin industry, you'll bring exceptional accuracy and control to everything you do.

By collaborating effectively with cross‑functional teams and business partners, you will help create seamless financial operations and support the organisation's wider goals. 

What you'll need

• An understanding of basic accounting principles, including double-entry bookkeeping (Debits and credits) and financial controls.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage a varied workload and maintain accuracy under pressure.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines and adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Demonstrate a high level of ownership and accountability across all areas of responsibility, ensuring tasks and issues are followed through to resolution.
• A collaborative team player, skilled at working cross-functionally to maximise the impact of financial and commercial insights.
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Excel, with the ability to use key functions such as VLOOKUP, SUMIF, PivotTables, and basic formulae to support financial analysis and reporting. 

What you'll receive

We offer a wealth of both financial and non-financial benefits, including: 

• 25 days' holiday rising to 28 with length of service
• Up to 20% combined pension contribution
• Opportunity to buy or sell holiday
• Pay increments yearly rewarding your first 3 years of service
• Performance related bonus of up to 10%
• Health Plan supporting you with your healthcare costs
• £1000 'Refer a friend/family' scheme
• Life assurance of up to four times your salary
• Sustainable benefits including electric vehicle and cycle2work schemes
• A range of family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid community day
• Cashback and discounts from over 3,000 retailers

Who we are 

water2business is one of the highest performing water retailers in the UK. We provide billing, account management, and customer service to business customers across England and Scotland. Based in Nailsea, we support over 85,000 customers and deliver leading levels of service through our fantastic customer teams. We're proud that both our customers and our people are at the heart of everything we do. 

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and engaging place to work. Our annual People Promises are based directly on feedback from our team members. Our committees and working groups including Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health First Aiders, Meet4menopause, LGBTQ+ alliance, Carers Network and our Working Parents group are all populated by our own people. 

In this role you will benefit from our coaching and mentoring framework and numerous learning and development initiatives from our award-winning team. We take your career, happiness, and general wellbeing seriously. 

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a Disability Confident committed employer – please let us know if you need any additional support or help to assist you in your application. 

All our roles are subject to disclosure and barring screening (DBS) checks, and successful candidates will be asked to disclose details of any unspent cautions or convictions. We recognise the contribution that people with criminal records can make, and any information given will be confidential and considered on an individual basis. 

All candidates are required to provide us with right to work in the UK documentation and, regretfully, we are not able to offer sponsorship at this time. 

We are popular and we may close our advert sooner than it says. We recommend you apply straight away so you don't miss the opportunity to join us!