We’re looking for a calm, organised individual with experience of office management in a customer-facing environment to join us as a Data Administrator and provide vital administrative support to a busy city centre Hub.
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our Birmingham Hub is located in the heart of the vibrant city centre. With people living in poor quality accommodation and homelessness in the city on the increase, our services are needed more than ever and our dedicated team provides vital support to a variety of client groups on a wide range of issues.
About the Role
Primarily supporting our Housing First and Navigator services, you will also provide support across the Hub. One minute you might be focused on file maintenance, photocopying, typing or scanning of documents, the next, dealing with invoices and account coding. Helping the service manager and finance team with payments to delivery partners will be important too, as will maintaining accurate records in line with GDPR. And, as you would expect, you’ll be answering the phone, dealing with queries, sending out mailings, managing data and producing reports. Setting up and servicing meetings, helping to maintain our website content and booking staff travel and accommodation - all are elements of this interesting and varied role.
About you
An experienced data administrator with good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, case management and reporting systems, internet, email and a minimum typing speed of 50 wpm, you have strong analytical skills and an innate ability to collate and interpret data. You also have experience of invoicing, variance reporting and assisting with budgets and are used to communicating with a wide range of stakeholders using various channels. What’s more, you’re great at helping to organise events and happy to play your part in recruitment and service delivery. Put simply, you’re forward thinking and flexible, as well as structured, calm and organised – everything, in fact, that it takes to support the dynamic and fast paced delivery of our services.
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them. In addition to this, we encourage an approach to involving people with personal insight of housing issues and homelessness in our recruitment processes.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
Birmingham, West Midlands
Do you have excellent MS Excel skills and an understanding of databases? Looking to transform your interest in computer science and financial systems into a rewarding career?
If so, this is an exciting opportunity to undertake excellent training and grow with a highly regarded employer that is dedicated to transforming lives.
About Us
Oasis Community Learning (OCL) is a ground-breaking global movement and group of charities and social enterprises working in 51 community hubs located in 11 countries across the world.
We create a new sense of neighbourhood in communities that had previously been forgotten by society and our community hubs enable people to come together and fulfil their potential.
We are also raising the educational bar through our academies. A family of 52 educational institutions serving over 28,000 students from a variety of backgrounds, our academies seek to close the educational gap that exists between disadvantaged students and their more privileged counterparts.
We are currently looking for a Trainee Systems Accountant to join our National Finance Team, based at Oasis Academy Woodview in Birmingham.
The Benefits
- Salary of £19,554 - £21,166 per annum
- Local government pension scheme
- Continuous professional development programme with training opportunities
- A supportive network and family of staff in a motivating working environment
- Make a positive, lasting difference within your community
- 25 days’ holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays
This is an amazing opportunity to embark on an engaging career with an organisation offering a steady and sustainable work/life balance that is highly sought after by those in the finance industry.
We will support you to progress within the organisation, significantly increase your skill set, undertake SQL training and work towards becoming an ACCA qualified accountant.
You will work as part of a passionate and hard-working team to develop financial systems and processes that will help to strengthen and shape the future of our academies and their communities.
So, if you are looking to learn, grow and realise your full potential within a supportive and motivating work environment, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role
As a Trainee Systems Accountant, you will learn how to develop OCL’s finance and procurement software systems and associated processes.
Some of your duties will include:
- Maintaining and supporting finance systems
- Helping to review and design system workflows
- Managing queries from end users and helping them to fully utilise systems
- Setting up new suppliers and customers on our finance systems
- Working with the Finance, Procurement and ICT Teams to plan, manage and support system upgrades and implementations
About You
To join us as a Trainee Systems Accountant, you will need:
- A high level of IT literacy, including advanced MS Excel skills
- A good understanding of databases, data uploads, extraction and interfaces with other systems
- At a minimum, GCSEs at grade A* - C (or equivalent) or demonstrable literacy and numeracy skills
- An analytical mindset and the ability to interpret and present data clearly
- Great written and verbal communication skills
- A highly organised approach and the ability to work on your own initiative
We would like to hear from you if you would like to become a Junior Systems Accountant or Systems Accountant Trainee.
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.
So, if you are looking to embark on an exciting career as a Trainee Systems Accountant, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
Working hours: 37 hours per week