Accounts Assistant

Oodle Finance is recruiting an Accounts Assistant for its Manchester or Oxford locations. This full-time opportunity is ideal for someone beginning a career in finance and wanting to help maintain efficient daily accounting operations within a growing team.

About This Position

The Accounts Assistant reports to a Management Accountant and acts as a practical entry route into the finance function at Oodle Finance. Working full time from Manchester or Oxford, you will help the team keep core financial activities running reliably while building skills that support longer-term career progression. A discretionary company bonus scheme applies to the role.

Your Responsibilities

• Assist in producing the monthly management accounts and the annual financial statements.
• Carry out monthly reviews of reports to surface patterns or unusual results.
• Update and maintain financial records, including accurate data entry into accounting systems.
• Support month-end reconciliations and help clear any differences identified.
• Provide complete and correct documentation when audits or internal information requests arise.
• Respond promptly as the main contact for finance queries, building good working relationships and giving clear support to colleagues in other departments.
• Collaborate with the broader finance group to improve business performance.

Qualifications

• Genuine interest in beginning a career within finance.
• Basic grasp of everyday finance and accounting principles.
• Confident use of Microsoft Office, especially Excel functions such as LOOKUPs and pivot tables.
• Strong organisational habits with consistent attention to accuracy and detail.
• Clear written and spoken communication abilities.
• Skill in balancing several priorities and meeting agreed deadlines.
• Readiness to learn and develop new capabilities.

Why Join Oodle Finance

Oodle Finance helps people acquire used cars by supplying loans and connecting customers with quality UK dealerships. Founded in 2016, the organisation has expanded rapidly by designing modern digital retail journeys that put customer requirements first and by challenging long-standing practices in a major retail market. We welcome capable people who combine solid academic results with energy, curiosity and a constructive attitude, and who enjoy contributing ideas in a fast-moving, collaborative and good-humoured environment. Benefits include 25 days of holiday rising to 28 after three years plus bank holidays, private medical cover through Vitality with family reward schemes, a Health Shield cash plan covering dental ocular and similar costs for employees and children, a 5 percent company pension contribution, free breakfast drinks and fruit in the office, broad retail employee discounts, one paid volunteer day each year, six free counselling sessions via the employee assistance programme, enhanced sick pay, and improved family leave for primary and secondary caregivers. Our shared principles emphasise human connection and diversity, continuous improvement, collective ownership of outcomes, open honesty and unwavering focus on the customer.

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