About VMI:
VMI is an award-winning agency, now a part of Journey, producing stunning visual imagery, animations, and virtual reality experiences that enthrall and engage viewers. We fully immerse ourselves in understanding our customers’ motivations and translating them into something effective that is elegant, beautiful, and truly different. Our mission is to create disruptive and exciting customer experiences through technology that evoke real emotion and impact.
Growing at pace, we have an amazing team of dedicated professionals with a strong culture built around doing great work and having fun whilst doing it. We have bold ambitions for 2025 and are looking for a talented Finance Assistant to help us grow.
If you are a motivated individual passionate about providing finance support to our growing finance team, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to contribute to our team's success.
About the Role:
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Assistant to join our dynamic finance team. This role offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to the organisation's success while developing your expertise in financial management and accounting. As an integral part of the team, you will assist with maintaining accurate financial records, ensuring compliance with policies, and supporting efficient financial operations.
We are looking for a good all-rounder who is happy to manage day-to-day transactions as well as reporting and ad hoc tasks.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Payroll management and processing
- Client invoicing and maintaining revenue recognition schedules
- Assist with credit control and debtors chasing
- Day-to-day transactions (general bookkeeping) as required
- Assist in preparing accurate financial statements and reports in line with organizational policies and regulations.
- Assist with the accounts payable process, ensuring timely processing of invoices and payments.
- Reconcile bank statements and maintain detailed records of financial transactions.
- Support month-end closing activities, including journal entries and account reconciliations.
- Perform general accounting monthly tasks such as accruals, prepayments, and fixed asset management.
- Assist in the preparation of monthly management reports and variance analysis.
- Currently working with QuickBooks Online, we will be transitioning to NetSuite as we merge with our new parent company. Knowledge of NetSuite would be a plus.
- Assist with the integration of the company with its new parent company, ensuring smooth financial transitions and system alignments.
- Provide necessary documentation and information to support audit processes and to assist with mapping new workflows as required.
- Some office management tasks, as required
- Maintain strict confidentiality of sensitive financial information.
About You:
Qualifications and Skills
- Experience in processing payroll is a must
- Proficiency in accounting software QuickBooks or NetSuite would be a plus.
- Solid understanding of financial accounting principles and practices.
- Exceptional organisational skills and meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment while maintaining self-motivation and independence.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and present financial data effectively.
- Previous experience in project-based billings or a related role is an advantage.
- AAT qualification or studying preferable but not essential
Salary Pay Range
£25,000—£40,000 GBP
About Journey:
But we're so much more than a combination of acquisitions; we're a revolutionary framework of layered design capabilities akin to the layers of a technology stack for software companies. Like the best technology stacks, our framework continuously evolves to embrace new capabilities and creative possibilities with the future of the human experience at the forefront. This game-changing framework, the Journey Experience Stack, allows us to design for every touchpoint and create uncommonly cohesive brand universes, drawing on our collective expertise in interior design, lighting design, media design, interactive design, and content creation to deliver industry-first solutions for entertainment, healthcare, retail, hospitality, real estate, and cultural institutions.
No other full-service studio practices multidimensional design or vertically integrates its experience capabilities with this level of sophistication. Whether we’re reimagining the hospital-patient relationship, creating the world’s most immersive entertainment venue, revolutionizing live theater, or crafting virtual twins that accelerate ideas’ passage from vision to reality, Journey’s work is pioneering the shift of how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world.
