Bookkeeper Finance Assistant - Consumer Brands

Job Title: Bookkeeper / Finance Assistant – Consumer Brands Location: Remote Hours: Full-time Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 (Depending on experience) About us Growth Drivers is a fractional finance team supporting consumer brands across food & beverage and health & beauty. We provide strategic financial guidance through our Fractional FD offering and flexible, scalable finance support that covers day-to-day essentials for our clients operating across DTC, Amazon, wholesale and retail. About the role You'll own day-to-day finance operations for a portfolio of consumer brands, many of them selling into major retailers. The focus is the retail side: making sure every remittance is matched, every deduction is backed up, and nothing sits overdue for long. Alongside that, you'll process supplier invoices, reconcile banks, and prepare payment runs and VAT returns, with plenty of scope for the role to develop. What you'll be doing Finance Operations

• Maintaining timely and accurate financial records across our clients
• Matching retailer remittances to invoices and bank receipts, and chasing support for deductions
• Keeping aged receivables accurate and chasing overdue balances
• Raising sales invoices for early-stage clients not yet on EDI
• Maintaining invoice finance facilities
• Reconciling multi-currency bank accounts, clearing accounts and payment gateways
• Coding and posting supplier bills
• Preparing supplier payment runs for review and approval
• Processing staff expenses
• Preparing VAT returns for review and approval by the Finance Manager
• Managing client inboxes and handling customer/supplier communications and queries Reporting
• Supporting the month-end close process and balance sheet reconciliations
• Weekly debtor and cash receipts reporting for each client Working with clients
• First point of contact for invoice, payment and supplier queries
• Supporting client onboarding
• Collaborating with external accountants, bookkeepers or in-house staff Process Improvement
• Identifying and implementing process improvements to automate and streamline our workflows
• Helping roll out new automation tools across clients What we're looking for
• Qualified bookkeeper (AAT Level 4 or equivalent) with over 3 years of hands-on finance and accounting experience
• Experience using Xero (required)
• Experience with retailer remittances and deductions/contras is a bonus
• Confident in managing multiple stakeholders, priorities, and competing client needs
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise deadlines across multiple clients
• Happy working remotely and managing your own week What we offer
• Private healthcare
• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Your birthday off