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Assistant Accountant

We have an opportunity for an Assistant Accountant to join the team managing the day-to-day accounting and financial stewardship of the Church, under the supervision of the Finance Manager.

This role offers hybrid and flexible working.

Position: Assistant Accountant

Location: Crawley/West Sussex/hybrid (hybrid working available after on boarding period)

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week (flexible working available)

Salary: £32,000 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Benefits include: 25 days holiday, pension, free parking, 5 minute walk from Crawley train station, town centre location

Closing Date: 6th October 2024. Please note this role may close earlier than advertised if a suitable candidate is found.

Interview Date: Shortlisting and interviews will take place on a rolling basis, so apply early.

The Role

As Assistant Accountant, you will take a lead role in every aspect of the day-today accounting and financial stewardship of the Church, working in collaboration with the staff team. You will assist with the financial setup of new church plants, ensuring a consistent approach across all of the Church partnership of churches, identifying best-practice and ensuring robust checks and balances are in place as the finance function increases in operational complexity.

Consistency, attention to detail, and best practice are key as this role will also help to establish a centralised resource service, offering a limited range of financial services to other selected churches in the town. This is a hands-on role; the successful applicant will enjoy understanding and implementing the detail of charity and church accounting requirements.

About You

You will be AAT qualified (or equivalent) or have significant appropriate experience and with a demonstrative development of skills.

You will have also have had experience of:

• Financial reporting to deadlines
• Financial transaction processes up to Trial Balance
• Payroll management
• Variance reporting

The Organisation

The Church exists to promote the whole mission of the church, pastorally, evangelistically, and socially, and this extends into the staff team where everyone who joins will thrive in this environment, able to contribute to the community of shared faith.

All the teams, including the staff team, pray together whenever they meet, sharing prayer and worship times throughout the working week. Therefore, all roles have a genuine occupational requirement to ensure protection of this strong Christian ethos and values. As you will represent and speak on behalf of a Christian organisation, the Occupational Requirement for an active Christian faith is justified under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.

We encourage applications from those of Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds

This role requires an enhanced DBS check.

You may also have experience in areas such as AAT, Accountant, Accounts Assistant, Junior Accountant, Payroll, Finance, Finance Assistant, Finance Administrator, Finance Accounts Assistant, Accountant Junior, Trainee Accountant, Business Accountant.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER (ISLE OF SHEPPEY)

HOURS: 18 hours per week (0.45 FTE)

24 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT

SALARY:  £11,732 per annum pro-rata (£26,072 for 1FTE)

Oasis Charitable Trust is a multi-national charity supporting communities in 8 countries worldwide. Our vision is for building healthy communities: places where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their full potential.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Community Development Worker to work as part of our Oasis Hub on the Isle of Sheppey, to engage and work with the community by helping them to access Hub activities, and the social supermarket project.

Key responsibilities will be:

1. To deliver the Sheppey Support Bus project and ensure its day-to-day operational tasks are fulfilled.
2. To liaise with our community partners including supermarkets, Fairshare etc to support and provide for Oasis activities, including the Sheppey Support Bus.
3. To monitor and evaluate activities using monitoring tools available to the team.
4. To develop other opportunities that will enhance our offer to the local community.

The successful post holder must have:

• A relevant professional qualification in Community Work or able to demonstrate qualification by experience.
• Successful experience of working with complex communities.
• The ability to deal with private information and sensitive issues with a calm and confident approach in difficult situations.
• Ability to function in diverse settings and with a wide range of professional agencies.
• Self-motivation, resilience, excellent organisational/administrative and inter-personal skills are essential for this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of something pioneering on the Isle of Sheppey and to help make a difference to communities on a local level, while individually improving the life chances of everyone.  As part of the package, Oasis offers:

• A pension scheme, currently offering 7% employer contribution.
• A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year (plus 8 Bank Holidays).

If you are interested in this position, please email your most recent CV and covering letter. For further information please visit the Oasis Charity Jobs Website.  In your covering letter, please answer the following questions:

1. Expand on your CV to explain how your skills and experience meets the Job Description. Give specific examples.
2. What personal attributes does a person need to do well as a Community Development Worker?
3. How do you see the Oasis ethos and 9 Habits being displayed in this role?

Completed applications should be returned by 12 noon Monday 7th October 2024

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 16th October 2024

We actively encourage applications from people of all ethnic backgrounds and minority and underrepresented groups. If you require any assistance to overcome potential barriers, please let us know.

Applicants must be able to prove their right to work in the UK. Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos.  We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.

Oasis supports Equal Opportunities.  Registered Charity No. 1163889

We are a dynamic organisation with a clear vision to create a world where everyone can know Jesus through the Bible. Part of our responsibility in this is to make sure we are good stewards of the resources we’ve been entrusted with. We have a range of roles which will suit someone who is organised, pays attention to detail and enjoys contributing their ideas and experience as part of a team.

• Salary: £15,000-£60,000 in personal support.
• Location: We have a range of roles both home based in the UK and overseas.
• Terms of appointment: Full-time or part-time. Permanent. 

Key responsibilities:
We have various roles that include different elements of the tasks and responsibilities below. 

1. Oversee income and expenditure transactions. 
2. Manage ledgers, reconciliations and journals
3. Payroll and pensions processing. 
4. Follow and review financial processes, procedures and policies, seeking to update them when necessary
5. Management of others in the finance team.
6. Ensure that finances are managed effectively, that proper accounting records are kept and are in compliance with all relevant legislation and guidelines

*More details can be found in the job pack.

This post is subject to an occupational requirement under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act that the post holder be a practising Christian (see application pack for details).