Pets at Home

Finance Administrator

Pets at Home  •  Onsite  •  27 days ago
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Job Description

Are you highly organised, detail-driven, and confident working with numbers in a busy environment? We’re looking for a proactive Finance Administrator to join our friendly and fast-paced team in Leeds Birstall Vets for Pets 24/7 Hospital.

The Role

This is a key role at the heart of the practice, ensuring our financial processes run smoothly, accurately, and efficiently while supporting excellent care for our clients and their pets. You’ll work closely with both the management and clinical teams, playing an important part in maintaining financial integrity and delivering outstanding service.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys taking ownership of their work, thrives in a busy environment, and takes pride in accuracy and efficiency. You’ll be a key part of a supportive team that values collaboration, professionalism, and great client care.

This is a full time role working 40 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

  • Daily banking, petty cash management, and payment reconciliation
  • Managing client accounts, debt control, and responding to financial queries
  • Processing insurance claims (direct and indirect) within required timeframes
  • Monitoring pre-authorisation and direct claim payments
  • Updating and maintaining financial spreadsheets and debt reports
  • Chasing outstanding payments and invoices
  • Processing and allocating direct credits
  • Supporting care plan queries, cancellations, and related finance tasks
  • Handling finance-related emails and correspondence
  • Maintaining accurate financial records in line with practice procedures

About You

  • Previous experience in a finance or accounts administration role (essential)
  • Strong attention to detail and excellent organisational skills
  • Confident using spreadsheets and practice management systems
  • Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities
  • Clear and professional communication skills
  • Experience in a veterinary, healthcare, or service-based environment is desirable but not essential

Benefits

In return, we offer such benefits as 20% discount at the Vet Group, Pets at Home and the Groom Room, access to discounts and cashbacks, in-house career development opportunities, pension and holiday allowance. The salary for this position is national minimum wage dependant on age.

Location WF17 9AD

We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!

Pets at Home

About Pets at Home

Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.

We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.

Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.

Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!

If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Handforth, GB
Year Founded
1991
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