Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant

Do you want to play a key part in one of the UK's most high-profile infrastructure projects? Are you looking to progress your finance career within a supportive, hands-on team? Do you enjoy working with complex data, stakeholders, and seeing the impact of your work every day? Here at GXO, we're looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to join our Infrastructure Finance team, supporting Wincanton's prestigious EDF contract across our distribution sites. This is a varied and demanding role, central to the successful delivery of supply chain services into the Hinkley Point C build programme, a project helping Britain achieve Net Zero. This is a full-time permanent position. You'll be working Monday to Friday, 09:00 till 17:00 with a requirement to work from either our Bridgwater, Bristol or Weston-Super-Mare office 4 days per week. However, some flexibility is required, this is logistics after all! Pay, benefits and more: We're looking to offer a salary of £30,000, depending on experience and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme. What you'll do on a typical day: Prepare monthly financial reports to support accurate and timely customer invoicing Support month-end processes, including journals, reconciliations, and closing activities Maintain and reconcile ledger accounts, ensuring strong financial controls and accuracy Produce KPI and non-financial reporting to support operational and contractual performance Work closely with operational teams and stakeholders, providing finance support and insight What you need to succeed at GXO: Experience working in a finance role within a high-volume, complex environment Currently studying or planning to study towards AAT, CIMA, or ACCA Strong attention to detail with the ability to question data and dig beneath the numbers Confidence working with finance systems/ERP software and advanced Microsoft Excel skills A collaborative, proactive mindset with strong communication and stakeholder management skills GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.