We are looking for someone with a passion for detail to join our Finance team to provide administrative support. As our Finance Administrator, you will assist in handling both the day-to-day and some regular tasks, while maintaining accurate records for all transactions.

This is a part-time (20 hours per week) role offered on a 12-month fixed term contract.

Around 95% of young people do not actively engage with Church. The mission of Urban Saints is to make young disciples for Jesus, meeting young people wherever they are and introducing them to Jesus. Our vision is to be an effective disciple-making movement, reaching young people in every community in the UK and Ireland.

In return, we offer excellent benefits including:

• 25 days’ holiday (pro rata) plus eight bank holidays
• Pension scheme – we contribute 6% of gross salary to the Urban Saints pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Flexible working – we offer flexible working arrangements to optimise work/life balance
• Volunteering days – you will have an opportunity to volunteer for one of our events or a similar charity of choice for up to eight days (pro rata)

For further information and to apply, please visit our website. 

Closing date: 1st March 2020.
Interviews will be held as soon as possible after this date.

Finance and Resources Administrator

Full time – 35 hours per week

Location: London (GamCare Head Office)

Salary £17,500 - £22,000 – dependent on experience

Permanent

GamCare is the leading national provider of information, advice, support and free treatment for the prevention and treatment of problem gambling. During the recent years GamCare has experienced immense growth in its operations.

GamCare is now looking to recruit a Finance and Resources Administrator to work within our back-office support function in London.

You will be working with Financial Controls Manager, supporting in day to day finance activities and manage premises.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Update of General Ledger on accounting software (Quickbooks).
• Processing of monthly staff expenses
• Maintaining office health & safety and facilities

You should have experience in finance and resources admin support within charitable organisation and preferably studying towards an accounting qualification.

You will form part of an enthusiastic team who works in collaboration with each other. You should be versatile and adaptable and committed to on-going development.

We are looking for individuals to work full time.

To apply, please go onto the GamCare website and complete an application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Survey.

Please note we do not accept CVs

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Job application: <name of vacancy> and name of region

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To discuss the role further please email Lisandra Noormahomed, (Finance Officer).

Closing date for applications: Monday 24th February at 9:00 am

Overall Purpose

To actively participate in Baca’s vision to see a world where young force migrants are welcomed, feel safe and have hope to rebuild their lives for a better future. To support this vision by providing effective and efficient administrative support for the Finance and HR functions of the organisation.  The role will also have other general administrative responsibilities alongside the finance and HR responsibilities.

Personal Specification

Baca is looking for someone who can help the organisation with the finance and HR administration. The role does include other general admin responsibilities. The successful applicant will be motivated and passionate about the work that Baca does and the young people in our care. They will be able to subscribe Baca’s values and demonstrate them in their behaviours. They will be very organised, practical, and able to get on with tasks that need doing on a day to day basis, managing a varied and busy workload. They will be methodical, follow processes, pay attention to detail and able to deal with a variety of paperwork. They will be very approachable and enjoy working as part of a team and supporting others.

The successful applicant will have a personal style that is in line with Baca’s vision and values. Someone who is supportive, approachable, responsible, reliable and personable.

Qualifications/Knowledge/Experience

• Experience of providing administrative support for an organisation is desirable.
• Basic Accounting and Bookkeeping experience preferable but not essential.
• Strong ability to use computers well, Microsoft Office and on-line email systems.
• Experience of using Sage or other finance function (including Payroll function) is desirable.
• Experience of prioritising workload to meet competing deadlines and in a flexible way to the changing demands of Baca’s work.
• Advocate of customer care including experience of dealing with a range of customer queries and concerns in a professional manner.

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent personal organisation with a high attention to detail. Able to manage a number of tasks at any one time.
• Good teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills and ability to interact well with staff, contractors and visitors to the office and other properties.

Other Expectations

• Commitment to work within the aims, values and ethos of the organisation.
• Appointment is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check.
• Have a genuine concern for and commitment to asylum seekers/refugees, young people and UASCs in particular.
• Ability and commitment to work within a framework of confidentiality and anti-discriminatory practice at all times.

Please download Job Description for more details. Enhanced DBS check will be required. Interviews will be on Monday the 9th of March 2020.

If you have experience using the Purchase Order System WAP / Sage 200, then this is a great opportunity for you to join my client based in Victoria, London.

TPP Finance and Accountancy are working with a growing £26million turnover organisation (expected to be over £40m in 2020-21). This is a newly created role offering a salary of £35,000 - £45,000 per annum based on experience.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will be working in close partnership with the Finance team and should be able to assist them when needed.

Some of your main duties are:
- General maintenance and upgrade of the Finance system Sage 200 and the integrated WAP purchase order system
- Create, set up and amend all workflows, including processing or PO and invoices and authorisation pathways in WAP
- Manage and administer the chart of accounts in WAP and Sage
- Develop reporting tools on WAP where possible
- Assist the finance team with regular accounting tasks

Candidates applying for this role must be extremely strong on WAP, the Purchase Order System, and Sage 200/Sage 50
Good accounting knowledge to assist the Finance team
Relevant IT qualification
Strong Excel and systems skills

Candidates shortlisted for this role will be required to write a supporting statement.

Interviews for this position will be held on 28th February 2020.

If you are interested and have the required experience, please apply immediately with a copy of your CV.

If you have experience using the Purchase Order System WAP / Sage 200, then this is a great opportunity for you to join my client based in Victoria, London.

TPP Finance and Accountancy are working with a growing £26million turnover organisation (expected to be over £40m in 2020-21). This is a newly created role offering a salary of £35,000 - £45,000 per annum based on experience.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will be working in close partnership with the Finance team and should be able to assist them when needed.

Some of your main duties are:
- General maintenance and upgrade of the Finance system Sage 200 and the integrated WAP purchase order system
- Create, set up and amend all workflows, including processing or PO and invoices and authorisation pathways in WAP
- Manage and administer the chart of accounts in WAP and Sage
- Develop reporting tools on WAP where possible
- Assist the finance team with regular accounting tasks

Candidates applying for this role must be extremely strong on WAP, the Purchase Order System, and Sage 200/Sage 50
Good accounting knowledge to assist the Finance team
Relevant IT qualification
Strong Excel and systems skills

Candidates shortlisted for this role will be required to write a supporting statement.

Interviews for this position will be held on 28th February 2020.

If you are interested and have the required experience, please apply immediately with a copy of your CV.

Citizens Advice Liverpool is looking for a highly motivated Finance Assistant to join the Finance Team.

You will have recent experience of office administration and of meeting deadlines and setting priorities. You will be highly literate and numerate with an interest in developing a role in finance/accountancy. You will have experience of using QuickBooks or a similar accounting/book-keeping package and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

We’re looking for someone who is self-reliant, able to problem solve and able to input large amounts of data in an accurate and timely fashion.

To apply to join us, please find the recruitment pack and application form on our website available for download.

​Citizens Advice Liverpool recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic people, as they are currently under represented in our workforce.

Paradigm Housing is looking to appoint an Assistant Finance Director - Corporate Finance, based in their High Wycombe office.

Client Details

Paradigm is one of the South East's leading housing providers. They manage 15,000 homes across 33 different local authorities.

Financially strong, the organisation is focussed on delivering service excellence to its customers and making the most of its resources to provide more affordable housing.

This is an opportunity to join a relatively new Finance Team who are focussed on helping the organisation to deliver their corporate and social goals.

Description

Reporting to the Executive Director of Finance, you will take responsibility for the long-term business plan, managing the treasury and funding requirements, supporting the development function with comprehensive advice and overseeing the investment strategy.

Your key duties will include:

• Producing the medium- and long-term financial plans highlighting key operational, funding or covenant compliance issues

• Responsible for the Treasury function including developing the funding strategy, working with external stakeholders to ensure financial stability and ensuring they have the appropriate credit strength to deliver the corporate strategy

• Partnering with development and new business teams to ensure investments are appropriately appraised and deliver the required financial and social return

• Working with the other finance leads to implement process and system improvements

• Proving effective leadership, being performance and delivery focused

Profile

You must be a fully qualified accountant and / or treasurer with strong communication and leadership skills. It is essential that the new incumbent has financial planning and treasury knowledge, this experience will have been gained within social housing or a related industry. Ideally with significant appraisal experience. This is a genuine opportunity for an individual to broaden their experience, in an organisation that has a clear vision and route to achieve its goals.

Job Offer

Circa £95,000 package plus benefits

This is an immediate start ongoing interim Finance Officer role covering a permanent member of staff for 4 - 6 weeks. Working as part of wider finance function of 5 people, the Finance Officer will report to the Head of Finance and support the team is successful and efficient service deliver.

Day to day duties of the Finance Officer will include;

• Processing AP/AR invoices
• Processing income and updating relevant budgets
• Completing payment runs
• Carrying out ad hoc credit control
• Processing staff expenses

This is an immediate start Finance Officer role and applicants must have experience in similar role ideally within a charity. Working knowledge of relevant accounting software's such as Access Dimensions is ideal. If you are interested in applying for the position of Finance Officer through TPP Recruitment than please send your CV to [email protected]

INTRODUCTION

The Elim Pentecostal Church is a growing Movement of more than 500 Christian congregations and ministries in the UK and Ireland. Elim is also a leading UK charity operating within the non-profit sector as a single consolidated charity. Elim’s core vision and distinctive characteristics arise from its spiritual heritage as a denomination focused on Christian mission and ministry.

The Central Finance Department is responsible for managing all central income and expenditure, providing regular management reports to aid budget management and decision-making, and supporting all ministries and departments that operate from Elim International Centre in Malvern, including Regents Theology College, Elim Missions, Administration, Youth, Evangelism, and Training.

THE ROLE

The Finance Assistant will work in the Elim International Centre and report directly to the Finance Manager (Central Finance Team). You will contribute to and support the Central Finance Team Function, to maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records, and provide timely support to all service users. As Finance Assistant you are required to perform all tasks to enable the completion of Month End Accounts to Trial Balance in the first instance, and develop your skills to cover additional duties.

• Bank reconciliations: Daily reconciliation of dK Ledgers to Bank Statements. This includes accessing and print daily online bank statements, match existing entries, produce imports for recurring transactions, and investigate and generate individual imports for all other transactions.
• Purchase Ledger: Coding and input of P/L invoices, sharing with Budget Holders for approval or query, preparation of monthly P/L payments Report for approval by Line Manager (FM & FD), lining up BACS payment for authorisation and timely payment.
• Multiple Accounts Ledger Maintenance: Process income and expenditure transactions on a daily basis, on several ledgers, in readiness for twice-monthly Inter-Ledger reconciliations, and Month End completion.
• Inter-Ledger reconciliations: Payments and Receipts between the ledgers need to be 'mirrored' (reconciled) and settled twice each month; mid-month and at Month End completion.
• Journals: Creating and coding import journals for income and expenditure items
• Customer Support: Responding to email and phone enquiries, and provide timely support to all service users, including Vendors, Customers, Ministers, Finance Officers, all other HQ staff, and any other stakeholders and service users.
• Provide Income Facilities: Provide facilities to collect and/or receive payments from donors via offering Direct Debit forms, taking credit and charge card payments over the phone, and /or providing bank details for Standing Orders or electronic/BACS payments to be made;
• Digital Income Processing: Review the digital donations facility (PayThru) on a weekly basis and collate report for journal transfer into dK, and prepare distribution of funds to Local Church bank accounts.
• Expenses Processing: Timely collection and processing of monthly expenses claims for all staff and volunteers, ensuring that each departments’ expenses are authorised and submitted on time.
• Petty Cash: Maintaining a Petty Cash Imprest System, by issuing petty cash as needed, collating PC vouchers, and reconciling vouchers and cash balance to Imprest amount. Petty Cash should be reimbursed to imprest amount on a regular basis.
• Investigation Skills: Exploring whatever avenues necessary to sustain the effective, efficient, and economic processing of all financial transactions and business data, with accuracy and in a timely fashion.
• Bank Liaison: Liaise with the banks to identify transactions.
• Filing: All documentation must be filed frequently, and sometimes scanned, to keep reference files up-to-date and to facilitate easy investigation work.

Month End Responsibilities:

Complete to Trial Balance: Production of M/E Trial Balance and reconciliation to Customers and Vendors Balances, for each Ledger.

Other Duties: This list is an example of the level of tasks and responsibilities commensurate with your role, but is not exhaustive. Therefore, your duties can be interchanged with tasks and responsibilities of equal level as the work flow and demands of the department require.

Our client is a world leading performance organisation dedicated to providing an inspiring and memorable experience through innovation and creativity. This is a brilliant opportunity for an ambitious and dynamic Finance Officer to work for a prestigious arts organisation.

Working closely with other Finance Officers, this role will entail a range of finance responsibilities with a strong focus on the Sales Ledger. This role will involve: posting daily bank statements; completing monthly reconciliations; supporting the other Finance Officer’s responsibilities in their absence; reviewing existing systems and proposing suitable amendments to these.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of Sales Ledger
• Methodical thinking with great attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills with experience of working with staff from various departments
• Ability to think innovatively and encourage positive change in the organisation
• Proven track record of improving processes within a Sales Ledger function
• Sunsystems and Vision experience

We are looking for a part-time (4 days per week) Finance Officer, based in our office in London, working with our Finance Director in a newly restructured department.

Making Music is the UK association for leisure-time music, with a membership of 3,700+ music groups, comprising around 200,000 hobby musicians. We support members with practical services to help them run their groups, and with artistic development opportunities; we run meetings and events for them; we celebrate their achievements and speak on their behalf to partners and policymakers. 

The Finance Officer post is crucial to the smooth running of the organisation and plays a significant part in ensuring we manage ourselves efficiently, control our costs effectively and maximise our incoming resources. You will be working closely with the newly appointed Finance Director, helping to deliver the financial systems and resources to achieve our vision and strategy.

Making Music is seeking to appoint an experienced AAT or part-qualified (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) finance professional with experience in running the day-to-day finances of a medium-sized organisation.

We are looking for a team player with excellent communication skills, and recent experience with Sage and Quickbooks software.

This post is for 4 days a week (30 hrs) and can be worked flexibly. Salary £33k pro rata (=actual £26.4k a year for 4 days per week).

We warmly welcome applications from all sectors of the community and all kinds of individuals. Please let us know if you need this job information - or would like to apply for the job - in a different format.

Please download the job description and apply with your CV and a letter by 8am on Monday 24 February 2020. Interviews will be on Tuesday 3 March in London. You will hear by 5pm on Thursday 27 February if we would like to interview you.

The contract will initially be for two months but has the opportunity to be extended.

The role will involve rent accounting, analysis of data and balance sheet reconciliations.

Client Details

The client is a well established housing association.

Description

The key responsibilities will be to;

• Prepare and post weekly, monthly and ad-hoc accounting journals ensuring each journal is accurate, complete and compliant with standard accounting practices and internal regulations.
• Assist in the accounting processes for complex/technical areas of the organisation, for example fixed assets, component accounting, payroll, rent setting, service charges, commercial property and charity shop accounting.

• Prepare accurate and timely audit schedules and assist in the preparation of statutory accounting notes for the Group and its subsidiaries.

Profile

The successful Finance Assistant will come from a housing or property back ground and will be familiar with rent accounting.

You will be a team player, with a pro active approach and you will be highly organised.

You will have a proven record of preparing and posting journals, reconciliations and statutory accounting notes.

Job Offer

The contract has the possibility of being extended.

Job Title: Finance Assistant

Location: London

Reporting to: Senior Finance Officer

Duration: Permanent

Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to provide administrative and financial processing support in the Finance Team. The Finance Assistant will work closely with the Senior Finance Officers supporting them through the accounts payable process, preparing and posting income and expenditure into the accounting system, managing the Finance team filing and providing administrative support.

Finance Systems

-Responsible for day-to-day processing of authorised financial information such credit card statements, petty cash, staff expense and other income and expenditure transactions, updating relevant transaction logs and that accounting entries are charged to the correct approved budget.

-Responsible for maintaining and updating accounts payable in the Access Accounting System for authorisation by budget holders and that all necessary supporting and required documentation is held and is valid.

-Collect and examine supporting documentation that support reconciliation of expenditure associated with field trips or payments sent to partner organisations, raising and resolving queries.

-Preparing journals based on prepared reports including checking receipts against set criteria.

-Maintain and update supplier details in the organisational database.

-Support, as needed, the Senior Finance Officers in their monthly meetings with budget holders.

-Collate receipts for donor reports including retrieving information from storage.

Person Specification

Experience

- Must have previous expereince working for a charity.

-Some experience of undertaking a range of administrative and financial duties including processing financial transactions and exporting financial information into other software (desirable).

-Good computer skills with a degree of proficiency in Excel.

Skills

-Excellent numeracy skills with a keen eye to detail.

-Able to work quickly and accurately to tight deadlines, effectively managing one's time and prioritising competing demands in a methodical and systematic manner.

-Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.

-Initiative, enthusiasm and a common sense approach to problem solving.

-Strong administrative and organisational skills.

• Permanent Finance Manager role to join Wakefield Grammar School Foundation
• Opportunity to work for a leading group of independent day schools

About Our Client

Wakefield Grammar School Foundation is one of the country's leading families of independent day schools incorporating Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS), Wakefield Girls' High School (WGHS) and Mulberry House Nursery. There are five schools in total, as both QEGS and WGHS have a Junior School and a Senior School in addition to the Nursery.

In total there are around 1,950 pupils across the five schools and 430 employees approximately including both teaching and support staff.

Both the Junior and Senior School pupils are taught in a single-gender environment with some A-level subjects being taught jointly in the Sixth Form. Mulberry House Nursery is co-educational for boys and girls aged 3-4 years. Each school within the Foundation has its own Head and Senior Leadership Team with the exception of Mulberry House Nursery, which is managed by the Head of WGHS Junior School. The five schools are all highly individual and are tailored to the needs of their pupils.

There is a single Governing Body for the Foundation comprising Governors with a broad range of skills and experience. The Governors provide strong governance through a committee structure with specific committees for QEGS and WGHS in addition to committees for Risk and Compliance, Land and Buildings and Finance. Total income for the Foundation is just over £20 million annually and the financial position is strong.

The Foundation's aim is to develop and maintain inspirational learning environments at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and Wakefield Girls' High School, with the schools focused towards the distinctive needs of boys and girls.

The schools maximise the potential and educational opportunity for all those with the academic ability to access the curriculum by encouraging the pursuit of excellence, providing high quality teaching, outstanding pastoral care and an extensive range of extra-curricular activities. They embrace as wide a cross section of the community as possible and support students irrespective of their social or economic background.

Job Description

The Finance Manager is a key role within the Foundation and is accountable for the management of the finances of the Foundation and its compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements. The role also has accountability for managing the finances of the Foundation's trading subsidiary in addition to Wakefield Charities' Homes, a separately managed almshouse charity. We are seeking an experienced, qualified professional, who is a strategic thinker with a strong attention to detail. The Finance Manager leads a team of four being the Payroll Manager, the Fees Administrator, the Purchase Ledger Administrator and Finance Administrator.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Budget preparation, management and presentation
• Preparing the accounts
• Maintaining the financial systems, processes and controls
• Ensuring the Foundation meets its financial regulations
• Preparing financial reports and analysis
• Overseeing the payroll and pension schemes
• Managing the Finance team

The Successful Applicant

The successful candidate will:

• Hold a professional accountancy qualification - ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA
• Hold a degree and/or relevant professional qualification
• Have previously managed staff
• Be confident preparing financial plans and budgets
• Have excellent communication skills
• Be able to build relationships with a wide range of people and stakeholders
• Have a high attention to detail
• Have an empathy and understanding of the values of Wakefield Grammar School Foundation and a commitment towards the protection and safeguarding of children

What's on Offer

• £47,000 - £50,000 (there is further opportunity for progression up to £56,000 subject to satisfactory performance)
• 25 days holiday + 10 statutory days + 3 Christmas closure days
• competitive pension scheme
• free parking
• subsidised school lunches
• 37.5 hours a week
• close to public transport links
• discounted school fees

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.

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