352 Finance jobs in Greater London

Description
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of advertising and eCommerce and offers a rich array of innovative advertising solutions across Amazon's mobile and desktop websites, proprietary devices and DSP solutions.
We are breaking fresh ground and pioneering a crucial platform for future Amazon growth. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.
The Advertising Sales organization is comprised of business leaders, sellers, and creative and operational teams. The successful candidate will help drive revenue-generating projects, conduct opportunity assessments, and shape overall sales strategy.
The successful candidate will be an experienced and highly motivated individual who will partner with the Head of Advertising Sales, UK as well as other senior leaders across the organization.
The role requires an individual with exceptional analytical abilities, outstanding communication skills and business acumen, and an ability to partner with others to build solutions. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, have strong attention to detail, and an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
Key job responsibilities
The Finance Manager's overall responsibility is the controllership, analysis, planning, forecasting, and reporting for the UK Advertising businesses.
Key job responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Support Advertising Sales teams and the wider business, proactively developing forward-looking projects to scale the business
- Act as trusted partner to the Advertising Sales teams in making optimal business decisions and highlighting critical blockers, risks, and opportunities that impact ability to meet quarterly/annual goals.
- Drive performance improvements across the Advertising Sales organization and build the foundation for it to scale. This will include evaluating revenue optimization opportunities, strategic programs to enhance productivity, process redesign, and financial reporting & analysis.
- Assist with co-authoring highly visible and strategic business reporting to senior management.
- Use data systems such as Salesforce, SQL, and Tableau to identify insights and surface to management.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
- Experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice ( ) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
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Senior Finance Analyst - Finance, London
Job Description
**COSTAR GROUP - SENIOR FINANCE ANALYST, FINANCE - LONDON**
**OVERVIEW**
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We've continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
CoStar is the global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics and news. Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence. CoStar delivers immediate, verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every market.
Learn more about CoStar ( .
**DESCRIPTION**
At CoStar Group, our finance group centralises transaction processes, providing accurate reporting, financial resolutions, and proper forecasting analysis. Joining the team offers access to financial specialisations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash and asset management, client contracts and billing, and revenue recognition. The Senior Finance Analyst will be primarily responsible for assisting in the monthly close process, including preparation of monthly journal entries, account reconciliations, and variance analyses related to the monthly results.
This position will also play a key role in supporting financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis of CoStar's international entities. Other responsibilities for this position include assisting in implementation of changes and enhancements to the Company's Enterprise Resource Planning system. This position may also get exposure to technical accounting issues, including business combinations and integrations, and have interactions with our external auditors.
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
+ Responsible for managing the P&L and BS of specific CoStar international products/ services. This includes:
+ Ensuring accuracy and timeliness of monthly financial data through processing monthly journal entries.
+ Delivery of month end results, including consistent and insightful reporting to business unit leaders and contribution to the monthly management accounts commentary.
+ Challenging stakeholders to drive accountability, as well as providing them with the tools necessary to track progress against their financial targets and most importantly, allow them to keep within agreed budgets.
+ Demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of revenue performance & cost drivers.
+ Developing and managing financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning.
+ Partner with Group Finance to aid key business objectives (e.g. acquisition integrations). Specifically, to support on controls management, including implementation of controls, improvements to international systems, processes and reporting.
+ Collaborate and be the lead partner with group treasury, tax and payroll to ensure compliance with corporation tax, VAT and payroll tax requirements of specific international countries.
+ Be the lead conduit with external auditors and facilitate review of the close process, account reconciliations and variance analyses.
**QUALIFICATIONS**
+ ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
+ Experience in managing and developing reporting, comfortable with large volumes of data.
+ Strong system skills including Oracle and MS Office, particularly Excel (Pivot tables, vlookups, Power Query, etc).
+ Demonstrate a continuous improvement approach to work, including but not limited to, identifying areas for process improvements and implementing robust solutions.
+ Experience of working to a monthly close cadence
+ Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and provide actionable insights
+ Strong project management, time management and communication skills
+ Ideally proficient in one or more European languages, specifically Spanish, German or French
**WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?**
Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in iconic buildings the Shard and Blue Fin or one of our key UK-wide hubs. Other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and much more!
At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds - men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions and beliefs. However, we particularly encourage applications from women, disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the commercial real estate industry.
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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 37 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable products and services. We've continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry and for our customers. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
CoStar is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. CoStar is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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Vibrance  has a rewarding opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join our exceptional team in Bethnal Green, London.  You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis,  and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £22,308 - £22,721 per annum, plus benefits.

Vibrance  is a registered charity supporting adults with additional needs in London and Essex.

We encourage a working environment that at its core is inclusive, pioneering, and has the highest levels of integrity.

Vibrance is a great place to work and grow. We are proud to be accredited with the Investors in People Silver award.

Vibrance is happy to support candidates who are or wish to study for AAT qualifications.

About the Finance Assistant  role:

You will support the day to day running of the Finance Team ensuring that tasks such as posting invoices, reconciling customer accounts, supporting credit control and casing non-payment are carried out in a timely and accurate fashion.

Skills and experience of our ideal Finance Assistant:

• Enthusiastic, committed fast learner
li>Experience of working in an office environment
• Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise
• Attention to detail
• Basic understanding of bookkeeping and accountancy procedures
• Ability to work with sensitive and confidential information
• Experience working to deadlines

In return for your skills, knowledge, and experience, our Finance Assistant will enjoy:

li>A comprehensive training programme covering core skills
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Casual dress code
• Pension scheme
• Rewards and recognition for your service
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Flexible Working Options (Subject to service requirements)
• Learning & Development
• Mindful Employer
• Positive about Disability
• Long Service Awards

To join us as our Finance Assistant  please click apply  below – we’d love to hear from you!

Vibrance welcomes applications from all sections of the community including from people with disabilities. As users of the Disability Confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who satisfy the essential criteria for a job vacancy and consider them on their abilities.

Benefits Include:

• 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Your birthday off
• Extensive training and career development opportunities
• Company pension scheme
• Employee discounts
• Remote working

Role Overview:

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Administrator to join a well-established, fast-paced organisation based in Buckinghamshire. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a growing business while developing your own professional skills in a flexible and supportive environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Raise and manage invoices, process income, and allocate payments using Xero.
• Oversee purchase orders and ensure timely supplier payments.
• Process payroll and staff expenses accurately.
• Provide administrative support to the Finance Director.
• Manage credit control, including chasing payments and reporting aged debt.
• Liaise with local authorities for funding coordination.
• Handle financial admin such as insurance renewals and voucher schemes.
• Support finance tasks across affiliated businesses.
• Maintain accurate financial records and use booking systems effectively.

Experience Ideally Required for This Role:

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in a finance or administration role.
• Experience with Xero or similar financial software.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Previous exposure to payroll, accounts receivable/payable, or credit control duties.
• Strong customer service background with confident phone and written communication skills.

Why Join Our Client's Team?

You'll be empowered to learn, adapt, and evolve alongside the business. With capability programmes tailored to support your progression, you'll be equipped to grow a meaningful and rewarding career within a supportive, fun, and forward-thinking team.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious finance professional looking to progress their experience within a FTSE listed construction business with a track record of delivering high profile infrastructure projects.

The role is based in Bishopsgate (Central London) – 6 Months currently

This is a critical role within the Systems function that involves collecting, processing, validating and presenting accurate financial data. Whilst also providing strategic, financial and operational feedback on the performance of the company to senior management.

The role will be involved in assisting in the set up and development of the System processes, supporting the Senior Finance Manager & providing delivery of day-to-day finance systems activities.

The role includes exposure to senior management of the group and other central finance functions, providing an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your ability for further advancement.

Role Responsibilities

This role will be responsible for the supervision of all daily, weekly and monthly financial systems administration responsibilities related to a suite of Finance Systems, in particular Mercur (Budgeting and Reporting System) and TEFA (Timesheet System)

Provide ongoing management of the data flows, integration processes and governance of the Mercur System. Lead the resolution of support issues and configuration changes.

Support the Senior Finance Manager with the financial systems administration of the company’s ERP System (Oracle), deputising as required

The primary responsibilities of this role are:

Management & development of the Finance Assistant.

Become the support contact for users of Mercur , answering business queries and responding to tickets raised in the IT portal for Mercur.

Become the point of contact for the Support Function users of TEFA and ensure the provision of a timely, accurate and customer-focused service delivery

Define best practices, standardise processes and usage and provide documentation for both the Mercur and TEFA systems

Ensure access to the Mercur System complies with Finance policies and procedures and complete regular audits to confirm.

Coordination of data cleanse and accuracy, monitoring exception reports when launched making sure information held in Mercur can be used to make informed decisions in the business

 

Finance Manager - Education and Schools

My client is a Local Authority in the South West who are looking to appoint a talented Finance Manager to a Permanent Post.

About the role:

Based in North London (Hybrid):

A vacancy has arisen in the Finance Business Partnering team for a Finance Manager to lead on the financial support provided to the Council and senior management in respect of Education and Schools.

The role reports to the Head of Finance and is the finance lead supporting these service areas, whilst overseeing a team of three staff.

What's on offer:

• Salary: 53,817 - 68,265, inside IR35.

*negotiable based on experience

*please submit your CV with the rate you require

• Remote/Hybrid working.
• Hours: 09:00 -17:30 Monday to Friday

Responsibilities:

1. Developing strategic financial plans, budget setting, financial reporting and supporting and challenging decision making.
2. To provide information using analysis that clearly presents the financial performance, cost drivers, levers for change and implications to senior management and non-financial staff.
3. To work closely with finance colleagues to support corporate reporting.

About you:
You will have the following experiences:

• A CCAB accountancy qualification, or part qualified and actively studying for such a qualification.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of local government finance.
• Experience of successfully managing finance and other staff including performance management, personal and professional development, and the confidence.

How to apply

• Once your CV is received, if you are successful you will be contacted.
• Due to the extremely high number of applications, it may not be possible to contact every applicant. As such, if you are not contacted please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

About Spencer Clarke Group

Here at Spencer Clarke Group, we pride ourselves on connecting you with the best career opportunities; our experienced Consultants have extensive market knowledge and will also provide expert career advice along the way.

When you join us, you will receive:

• Access to a wide range of temporary and permanent opportunities
• Free DBS checks
• Post Placement Aftercare
• Loyalty reward scheme and regular competitions for our agency professionals

INDSCGBR

We offer a market leading referral scheme of up to 250 so if you know of someone who may also be looking for an exciting career opportunity, ask them to email their CV to Brad on remembering to include your details as well.

*T's & C's apply.

Finance Assistant

Exciting Opportunity to join a friendly and professional finance team!  Enjoy fantastic benefits and a supportive working environment where your contributions truly matter.

Benefits:

• Based in Leatherhead
li>£30,000 - £35,000 < i>Full time or part time role (part time c30 hours per week across 5 days)
• 25 days annual (pro-rata) plus bank holidays
• Generous contributory pension scheme
• Free onsite parking
• Complimentary lunch and refreshments
• Employee assistance programme
• Use of onsite facilities

Job description:

Bank & Cash

Recording cash book transactions

Use online banking system to monitor accounts daily and review of cash reserve requirements

Preparing weekly bank reconciliations, and monthly formal reconciliation

Preparing formal reconciliation of loan accounts

Payroll

Process monthly payroll runs in Sage 50 f

Process starters and leavers, tax code changes, student loans and other HMRC notices

Completing statutory payments and recording respective journal entries in SAGE 200

Collect and reconcile monthly variation and timesheets from sites

Produce monthly payroll reports for review by the Group Finance Manager and the Director of Finance

Prepare and submit monthly HMRC filings and pension returns

Execute year-end payroll tasks, including P11D generation

Managing auto enrolment communications and support staff queries

Liaise with pension providers and HMRC to resolve discrepancies

Assisting with meeting arrangements between staff and the pension advisors

Assisting HR with role/salary changes communications to staff

Maintain accurate payroll records and files

Summaries and analysis of data for management information purposes

Assistance with the preparation of information for the external auditors

Miscellaneous

Managing fund allocations for accounts

Assisting with the preparation of invoices as required:

Collecting extra charges information

Posting bank receipts to the fees ledger in Sage 200

Ad-hoc duties dependent on business requirements

Person specification:

Must have a full driving license due to office location

Minimum of 2 years’ payroll / finance experience

Leasehold Services Officer

Camden

Contract
£23.18 per hour

Our client is looking for an experienced Leasehold Services Officer.

Knowledge of tenancy/leasehold agreements, including rent and service charge arrears, nuisance, harassment and property misuse

    Working within a team of Leasehold Service Officers, you will deliver resident-centred services to Camden’s 9800 Leaseholders. Reporting to the Leasehold Services Team Leader, you will manage an interesting and varied workload, which will include processing Right to Buy applications, Sub-letting and Lease extension applications and a giving broad range of advice and support to leaseholders in Camden.

The successful candidate will initially be working on helping the team process Right to Buy applications and collating Assignment Packs for leasehold sales.

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES colbernlimited co uk

The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities.  Colbern Limited along with our clients

are an equal opportunities employer.
 

Finance Assistant, well established SME business. 100% office based, Stevenage, £28,000

Abacus Consulting are delighted to be partnering a well established SME business in Stevenage in their search for a Finance Assistant

This is a permanent, full time role and 100% office based

Working as part of a small finance team, your duties as the Finance Assistant will include:-

• Posting purchase invoices to Sage 50
li>Credit Control
• Cash allocation
• Query resolution
• Provide support to Finance Manager as needed

The ideal candidate will have all round finance experience. Must have current Sage 50 experience and be a confident Excel user (pivot tables and VLOOKUPS). There is likely to be an Excel test if selected for interview.

This is an urgent role so any candidates who are available immediately, or can start at short notice, will be of particular interest.