Accounts Assistant

About Lovey

Lovey is a leading online finance broker and lender dedicated to empowering UK SMEs. Since 2016, we’ve helped thousands of businesses access vital funding through our innovative technology platform and customer-first approach.

Ranked among the UK’s fastest-growing finance companies, certified as a Great Place to Work, and proudly holding a 4.9★ Trustpilot rating, Lovey continues to scale rapidly. As we grow, we’re strengthening our finance function and are looking for a detail-focused Accounts Assistant to support our day-to-day financial operations.

The Role

This role sits within the finance team and has a strong focus on transactional accounting, reconciliations, and maintaining accurate financial records within a fast-paced financial services environment.

You’ll play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of core finance processes, supporting high-volume transactions, cash movements, and month-end activities. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their finance career within a growing fintech business.

Key Responsibilities

• Posting bank transactions and completing daily bank reconciliations
  Post daily bank activity, including customer receipts and intercompany payments, and perform regular bank reconciliations, investigating and resolving variances promptly.
• Processing intercompany bank payments
  Setting up intercompany payments to maintain appropriate flow of funds from customer receipts to operational accounts. Prepare reconciliations for assigned balance sheet accounts, ensuring supporting documentation is maintained and reconciling items are cleared in a timely manner.
• Supporting loan payout process
  Communicating with the operational teams to track loan payout queue and helping to ensure customers receive funds as quickly as possible once given the green light. Uploading signed loan agreements and other supporting documents into loan management system for future reference.
• Completing balance sheet reconciliations
  Prepare reconciliations for balance sheet accounts relating to Own Book lending product, ensuring supporting documentation is maintained and reconciling items are cleared in a timely manner.
• Reconciliation of systems
  Matching financial records between our primary finance system and our loan management system, highlighting any issues and investigating where possible.
• Assisting with month-end processes
  Support the month-end close by preparing journals and assisting with reporting deadlines to ensure accurate period-end reporting.
• Supporting with customer administration in loan management system
  Setting up new customers and creating new loan documents to assist in periods of high demand. Processing updated contact details and maintaining customer activity notes as appropriate.
• Managing the accounts payable and receivable ledgers
  Maintain accurate and up-to-date purchase and sales ledgers, ensuring transactions are recorded correctly and queries are resolved promptly.
• Raising sales invoices and supporting credit control activities
  Generate accurate customer invoices in line with agreed terms and support credit control by monitoring aged debt, issuing statements, and assisting with customer query resolution.
• Supporting VAT return preparation
  Assist in preparing VAT return data, ensuring transactions are recorded accurately and comply with VAT regulations.
• Providing ad hoc support to the wider finance team
  Support audits, reporting requests, and ongoing process improvements as the business continues to grow.

About You

We’re looking for someone who enjoys working in a detail-focused role and takes ownership of transactional finance processes.

• Previous experience in a Finance Assistant / Accounts Assistant role
• Strong experience across accounts payable, receivable, and bank reconciliations
• High attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Confident Excel user
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proactive, reliable, and process-driven mindset
• Studying towards AAT qualification or AAT qualified (or equivalent experience)

If you're a passionate Accounts Assistant looking to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and become part of an exciting, growing business.