Remote Finance Assistant
Weskus Personeel
Full-time
Remote
United Kingdom
Finance & Professional Services
Remote Bookkeeper / Finance Assistant
Fully Remote (Cape Town–based candidates preferred)
Salary: R30,000 per month
Working hours: UK Business Hours
Start Date: Immediate
Our client is a London-based property maintenance and construction services business, working with housing associations, estate agents, and commercial clients. The business operates in a fast-paced, high-volume environment where responsiveness, accuracy, and accountability are critical.
Fully Remote (Cape Town–based candidates preferred)
Salary: R30,000 per month
Working hours: UK Business Hours
Start Date: Immediate
Our client is a London-based property maintenance and construction services business, working with housing associations, estate agents, and commercial clients. The business operates in a fast-paced, high-volume environment where responsiveness, accuracy, and accountability are critical.
We are seeking an experienced Bookkeeper / Finance Assistant to support the UK finance function in a fully remote capacity. This is a hands-on operational role, suited to someone who has done the work before — invoicing, payment follow-ups, email management, and finance administration in a busy environment.
Although the role is remote, you will work live and daily with a UK-based finance and operations team, interfacing one-on-one via Teams, shared systems, and live calls. This is not an isolated back-office role. You must be comfortable being visible, responsive, and fully integrated into a virtual UK team.
Prior experience in the building, construction, property maintenance, or trade services sector is strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
Although the role is remote, you will work live and daily with a UK-based finance and operations team, interfacing one-on-one via Teams, shared systems, and live calls. This is not an isolated back-office role. You must be comfortable being visible, responsive, and fully integrated into a virtual UK team.
Prior experience in the building, construction, property maintenance, or trade services sector is strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare, issue, and manage client invoices accurately and timeously
- Follow up on outstanding invoices and payment collections
- Manage a busy finance inbox, responding professionally and efficiently
- Verify job cards, quotes, supplier invoices, and materials prior to invoicing
- Upload, process, and reconcile supplier invoices
- Reconcile company card (Pleo) transactions
- Maintain and track insurance documentation (vehicle and company)
- Assist with fleet-related administration (parking fines, renewals, documentation)
- Support the Finance Manager with day-to-day finance administration
- Proactively identify issues and provide practical, solutions-driven responses
- Proven experience directly aligned to the role (finance admin, bookkeeping, invoicing, debtors)
- Solid experience chasing payments and managing client accounts
- Previous work in a fast-paced operational environment
- Experience with Xero or similar cloud-based accounting systems
- Strong Excel and Microsoft 365 skills
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Stable employment history (no frequent job changes)
- Confident, professional written and verbal communication
- Able to work independently while meeting UK deadlines
- Hard-working, disciplined, and accountable
- Comfortable working with a young, energetic, tech-savvy team
- Responds quickly to challenges and works in a solutions-driven manner
- Takes ownership and shows a genuine desire to grow with the business
- Professional, reliable, and performance-oriented
- Professional, quiet, dedicated home office (camera-ready)
- Reliable fibre internet with strong upload/download speeds
- Modern laptop or desktop capable of handling cloud accounting platforms
- UPS or inverter to manage load shedding
- Comfortable working on live video calls and shared systems during UK business hours