Ronin Finance Assisant

**Location** Porto, Portugal

**Department** Finance

**Reporting to** Financial Controller

**Annual salary (FTE)** Competitive

**Hours per week** Full time

**Join RONIN, part of the Rippleffect Group, a partnership of highly-connected digital brands, with an international presence and curiosity at its core.**

**RONIN goes beyond traditional data collection, finding hard-to reach respondents and helping clients make informed decisions from global research, a global, market-leading research organisation of over 30 years, with award-winning, multichannel data collection methods, and recognised leader in B2B, Healthcare and hard-to-reach survey research. We are pioneers in online, CATI and digital recruitment, conducting complex multi-country studies in more than 50 languages across the world.
**We are looking for a finance assistant looking to develop their career in an international context.

**About Us**

RONIN International are a market-leading research organisation whose comprehensive range of services help organisations fully understand the thoughts and behaviours of their customers. We have an excellent track record in delivering thorough and insightful results to even the most challenging briefs. Offering both qualitative and quantitative market research worldwide, we are proud to be the research partner of many leading global brands.

Our clients are the largest firms in the Technology and Healthcare sectors, including IBM, Microsoft and Sanofi, plus market research agencies and consulting firms such as Kantar, GfK and Ipsos, who use our Global Data Collection Centre for consistent, high quality-data.

RONIN International and its international subsidiaries, RONIN Research GmbH in Germany, RONIN Research Inc. in the USA and RONIN Research HK, in Hong Kong, are part of the independently owned Rippleffect Group, alongside our sister companies: Reading Room, a user-led, data-centric consultancy helping clients realise their digital ambitions, from deep dive and digital strategy, through to design, technology and communications; and Fat Media, experts in digital marketing & websites for growth focused businesses.

**The Opportunity**

This is an exciting new role and a great opportunity for a finance assistant. Based in our new Development and Operations hub in Porto, Portugal, you will be an essential member of the Finance team and work collaboratively across RONIN’s International entities and sister organisations.

**Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities**:

- administer and maintain the integrity of the Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger within the businesses.
- responsible for looking after both sales invoicing and supplier invoices, as well as processing payments.
- ensure that Debtors/Creditors are monitored, collected and paid in accordance with appropriate timescales and guidelines.
- assisting intercompany reconciliation.
- managing Fixed Asset Register.
- supporting Treasury Function.
- providing any other support to the Financial Controller and finance team, as required.

If you would like to access a copy of the full Job Description and Person Specification for this role you are welcome to download a copy from the Careers section of our website (link below).

**About You**
- You are a fluent English-speaker.
- You are personable, analytical, hardworking and can demonstrate initiative.
- You are also a good communicator that is confident speaking to suppliers/customers on the telephone and willing to solve queries relating to payment, receipts and any other ad hoc issues which may occur.
- You are proficient in Sage 50 and MS Office, especially Excel or equivalent.
- Ideally you are an accounting graduate, perhaps in the early stages of your ACCA/CIMA (or country equivalent) studies and be a hands-on, enthusiastic and dedicated individual with a passion for your chosen career path.
You enjoy working collaboratively and are adept at building good relationships with others.

**Location**

This role will be hybrid, based out of our new Development and Operations hub being established in Porto, Portugal.

**Why, and how to apply**
- Given the nature of the business and our clients’ requirements, any job offers issued will be conditional upon the return of a satisfactory basic DBS check and employment references.**_RONIN International is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and everyone we work with, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. _**_We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs. _**_The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best._