Finance Assistant

About LEWIS TEAM LEWIS is a global marketing agency that has moved from start-up to multi-national in a little over two decades. Its success is due to a combination of factors: it’s ability to read the future and prepare for it; leveraging cutting edge AI; strategic thinkers delivering award winning campaigns; expanding client relationships into new markets or services; and above all, independence from outside investors. The practice, its people and its campaigns have won many awards, including Cannes Lions, PRovoke Media, ICCO, European Excellence, PRCA Digital, Digital Impact, Global Digital Excellence. At the heart of our community is the TEAM LEWIS Foundation (TLF), a non-profit charitable entity. Since its launch in 2021, it has funded over 2,000 causes. It is one of the largest employee-directed philanthropies in the world. The TLF promotes a wide variety of social, cultural, and environmental causes that benefit society. It aims to strengthen the bonds between the creative industries, businesses, government, and non-profits. Community charities are championed by employees who, in addition to the financial donation, volunteer their time and skills to maximise grant effectiveness. You can read more here about TEAM LEWIS Foundation . Purpose of the role As Finance Assistant, you will deal on a daily basis with all the tasks involved in running a correct business administration. You will provide an effective and efficient Finance support to the Southern Europe offices of TEAM LEWIS delivering a high level of service and advice consistent with company and legal requirements. Also, you will work closely with the Global Finance team based in London (our HeadQuarter), Germany, France and Benelux. We expect this person to be based in Madrid . In addition, the ideal profile for this role is a junior person with a couple of years of accounting experience and bookkeeping orientation. Key Responsibilities Managing accounting processes (including raising suppliers invoices, purchase orders, treasury and cash management, credit control, accounts payable, accounts receivable, banking, cashbook, reconciliations) Timely monthly and year-end closing Meeting financial deadlines (including invoicing and VAT returns) Proper procedure regarding debtor and creditor management Preparing financial reports Raising any improvement processes within the finance operation Coordination with Global Finance team members Other Responsibilities Supports Finance, Operations and HR on driving forward initiatives and projects in the region Responsible for finance processes for the region to be compliant with TEAM LEWIS Finance policies: cost authorisations, purchase orders, documents and forms required Contributes and supports the continuous improvement of Finance systems, practices and policies Trains and educates non-finance colleagues to ensure finance processes and correctly fulfilled This job description is not intended to be an…