About The Role
We are looking for a Finance Assistant to join our growing team on a fixed term maternity cover basis, with a primary focus on credit control and wider support across accounts receivable and payable.

This is an ideal role for someone with finance experience looking to broaden their skills in a fast-paced, collaborative consultancy environment.

There’s also potential for a permanent role after maternity cover for an ambitious candidate, as our business continues to grow and evolve.

We’re flexible: we can offer a full-time Finance Assistant role or a part-time Credit Controller position depending on your preferences.
 
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Credit Control
• Proactively follow up on outstanding customer invoices to ensure timely collections.
• Generate and distribute weekly aged debt reports for sector and project leaders.
• Reconcile incoming payments and maintain accurate customer accounts.
Accounts Receivable
• Maintain and update the weekly invoice schedule, liaising with project leaders.
• Prepare and issue invoices accurately and on time.
• Allocate customer payments and reconcile accounts to maintain accurate financial records.
Accounts Payable
• Manage supplier invoices, ensuring accuracy and timely processing.
• Allocate customer payments and reconcile bank accounts to maintain up-to-date records.
• Prepare and process payment runs efficiently.
• Process staff expense claims in line with company policies.
• Handle and reconcile credit card transactions to ensure accurate reporting.
Finance & Legal Support
• Assist with general finance tasks as needed, such as bank and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide cover for team members during holidays to ensure smooth operations.
• Support the legal team with administrative tasks as required.
• Handle additional ad hoc duties to support the finance and legal functions.
 
About You
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Excellent communication skills for liaising externally with customers and suppliers and internally with sales and technical staff.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel; SAP experience a plus.
• Knowledge of customer accounts payable platforms such as Ariba would be an advantage.
• Comfortable working to deadlines and managing multiple priorities.
• Positive, proactive, and professional customer service attitude.
• Collaborative team player.
• Demonstrable experience in finance – ideally across credit control, accounts receivable, or accounts payable.
• Experience working in a consultancy, project-based, or professional services environment would be an advantage.
• AAT studier (or working towards a finance qualification) is desirable but not required.
 
About Us
Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) is an end-to-end innovation partner, propelling global brands and ambitious start-ups to success. We build breakthrough products and services – from insight to ideas, prototypes to production – bringing innovation to life.  Our teams are multi-disciplinary, uniting scientific rigor, design ingenuity, and engineering excellence for consumer, healthcare, and industrial clients. 
People-centred, deeply collaborative, and – above all – expert, we’re uniquely positioned to shape the future for consumers, patients, and industry.  Even our ownership model is innovative: We’re 100% owned by our employees, ensuring an open culture and a total commitment to our projects’ success.
Founded in 1996, CDP is a £30m revenue, 200-person business with locations in Cambridge UK and Raleigh NC.
 
Closing date for applications is Friday16th May 2025
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