About Petauri
Petauri is a purpose-built pharmaceutical services platform which offers broad expertise to seamlessly support our clients with impactful solutions that accelerate patient access to life-changing care. Petauri Evidence partners with market access and HEOR teams across all global and local milestones, providing the strategy, insight, evidence, and tools to ensure commercial success. We combine academic and technical rigor with specialized knowledge and commercial agility in an evidence-driven approach to optimize patient access to medicines and technologies. Our Expertise includes Global Market Access & Pricing, local Access & HTA, Health Economics & Statistics and Value Communication.

Assistant Accountant
We are seeking a professional and detail-oriented Accounts Assistant to support our Finance team across customer invoicing, project administration, supplier invoice processing and month-end activities. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong finance administration background who enjoys working accurately, collaboratively and at pace.

Key Responsibilities

• Generate and process sales invoices for customers.
• Ensure all customer invoicing is accurate, complete and compliant with legal and client-specific requirements.
• Input customer invoices into supplier portals where required.
• Manage and control the monthly invoice and billing schedule to ensure all scheduled invoices are generated on time.
• Maintain and update customer master records.
• Liaise with customers as required regarding invoicing and account matters.
• Review revenue recognition rules for new projects before they are opened.
• Close projects and ensure all checklist requirements are completed before closure.
• Review that purchase orders are attached to all projects.
• Check that projects are assigned to the correct NetSuite customer.
• Process supplier invoices and ensure all necessary authorisations are in place before processing.
• Assist with inputting weekly payment runs into the bank.
• Support larger supplier statement reconciliations.
• Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide support to the Finance team on ad hoc finance projects and queries.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Previous experience in Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable or a broader Accounts Assistant role.
• Familiarity with NetSuite is desirable.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and communicate confidently with customers, project managers and suppliers.
• Strong Excel skills are essential.
• UK VAT knowledge and practical experience.
• Bookkeeping or a relevant accounting qualification.
• Experience with SuiteProjects Pro is desirable.

Working Arrangement
This role is office-based for a minimum of three working days per week.

Benefits

• Bonus plan (not contractual).
• Holidays, full time allocation 25 increasing to 28 based on service beyond 2 years.
• 1x Volunteer Day and Birthday holiday.
• Christmas close (3 days) not taken from leave allowance.
• Company Pension contribution 5%, employee minimum 4% but uncapped max with Standard Life.
• Sick leave 10 days FTE per annum.
• Maternity and Adoption Leave, 3 months full pay, 13 weeks half pay, 13 weeks statutory.
• Paternity Leave, 3 weeks’ full pay.
• Death in Service 4 x annual salary.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Group Income Protection – 70% of base pay plus pension contributions.
• Docking station and screen for home to support hybrid working.
• Monthly local social activities and annual Christmas Party.
• Support with personal development, including professional qualification training where appropriate.

Petauri is an equal opportunities employer. Enhanced benefits apply after 2 years’ service. Salary sacrifice schemes available for Private Medical Insurance, Cycle to work, and Electric Vehicles.