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Senior Finance Assistant (Freelance)

Remote, South Africa

Company: PPN RA (trading as Property Entrepreneur)
Location: Remote, South Africa-based
Employment Type: Part-time freelance
Hours: 30–35 hours per week, Monday to Friday (exact hours to be agreed)
Reports to: Financial Controller
Rate: R270–R380 per hour (approx., experience-dependent)

About Us

Property Entrepreneur is the UK's leading business and property training and community business, running live events, virtual workshops and mentoring programmes for property entrepreneurs across the UK. As the business grows, we're building out a lean, high-performing finance function to support it.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Senior Finance Assistant to take full ownership of our day-to-day finance operations, working closely with our Financial Controller and external finance team. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role for someone who takes pride in accuracy, meets deadlines without being chased, and is comfortable owning a broad finance workload in a fast-moving SME.

Key Responsibilities

• Credit control: proactively managing the debtors' ledger, chasing outstanding balances and negotiating payment plans with clients to bring down what's owed to the business
• Supporting the external finance team to ensure monthly financial reports are completed accurately and every deadline is hit, without exception
• Managing bookkeeping and finance management tasks, including invoice checking and reconciliations
• Accounts payable: auditing and recording supplier invoices, compiling for payment and ensuring prompt payment
• Accounts receivable: customer invoicing, credit agreements and proactive collections
• Populating and actualising budgets, including pricing
• Supporting sales and commission reporting (e.g. BSR commission reports and package modelling)
• Auditing the sales order sheet and ensuring sales orders are accurately reflected in the sales report
• Setting up new client agreements and supporting related automations
• Setting up automations around contracts, to cut down manual admin and speed up turnaround
• Using AI tools to make day-to-day finance processes faster and more efficient
• Working with external contractors to build and refine internal systems, so processes get better every month
• Creating payment links (e.g. Stripe) as needed
• Acting as a point of escalation for finance queries from the team and clients
• Keeping finance processes, policies and documentation up to date
• General ad hoc finance and Financial Controller support
• Attending team meetings, 1:1s and contributing to wider finance communications

About You

• A genuine can-do attitude: you get stuck in, find a way through problems, and don't wait to be asked twice
• Real hunger for driving down aged debt and what clients owe the business, including negotiating payment plans and following through until it's resolved
• A no-nonsense attitude towards people who owe us money, comfortable having difficult conversations and picking up the phone rather than hiding behind email
• An exceptional, relentless eye for detail. You catch what others miss and hold your own work to a consistently high standard
• Hands-on and across everything in your remit at all times, not just the parts that land on your desk
• A strong team player, willing to pitch in wherever needed to help the wider finance team perform at a high standard
• Naturally looks to use AI and other tools to work smarter, and enjoys building better systems and processes with contractors and the wider team

Must-Have Requirements

• Proven experience in a similar finance assistant/senior finance assistant role, ideally within an SME
• Strong working knowledge of cloud accounting software (Xero preferred)
• Comfortable using AI tools to improve everyday efficiency
• Proficient in Excel, Word and email packages
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with a track record of high accuracy under deadline pressure
• Able to maintain the highest levels of confidentiality and a strong awareness of data protection
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable liaising with people at all levels
• Calm, professional manner, even under pressure and with changing priorities
• Reliable internet connection and a quiet home-working setup, with working hours that substantially overlap the UK working day

Desirable

• AAT or similar accounting qualification, or qualified by experience
• Experience in the property, training/events or membership sector
• Familiarity with CRM-linked billing platforms (e.g. GoCardless, Stripe)

What Success Looks Like

• Aged debt and outstanding client balances visibly coming down month on month
• Every financial reporting deadline hit, with the external finance team fully supported to get reports done and dusted on time
• Consistently high accuracy on recurring processes, with no repeat errors on previously flagged issues
• Full ownership of assigned tasks, raising questions before starting unclear work rather than proceeding on assumption
• Visible improvements to internal systems and processes month on month, working with external contractors and using AI where it helps

Package

• Rate: R270–R380 per hour (approx., experience-dependent)
• Remote working, part-time, Monday to Friday, 30–35 hours per week
• UK hours (allow for the time difference when planning your working day)

Pay: R270,00 - R380,00 per hour

Expected hours: 30.0 – 35.0 per week

Application Question(s):

• Do you hold AAT or a similar accounting qualification?

Experience:

• finance assistant or senior finance assistant: 4 years (Required)
• cloud accounting software, such as Xero: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote