The Survivors Trust (TST) is a UK-wide national umbrella agency for 120 specialist voluntary sector organisations providing support for the impact of rape, sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse throughout the UK and Ireland for women, men, young people and children.

TST provides support and networking for member agencies; deliver accredited training; raise awareness about rape and sexual abuse and its effect on survivors, their supporters and society at large; promote effective responses to rape and sexual abuse on a local, regional and national level.

We are looking for an experienced professional to join our friendly team on a part time basis to perform the role of Finance Officer.

The right candidate will ideally have previous experience in a Finance Officer role and be part-qualified AAT (level 3) or equivalent with excellent analytical and numerical skills.  They will be experienced in using financial software, eg  Xero, SAGE, and knowledge of financial regulations and accounting procedures.  The role will involve managing multiple restricted funding streams, producing financial reports for trustees and funders, budgets and cash-flows. Occasional HR support and other general administrative duties may also be required.

Previous experience of working in the voluntary sector would be helpful but not essential, as training and a full induction will be provided. A good level of education, the ability to articulate themselves in a friendly and professional manner and IT competency are essential.

The role will be based at our head office in Rugby, Warwickshire.

You will be required to undergo enhanced DBS clearance to work at The Survivors Trust and references will be sought.

Who we are

Peace Direct is an international charity with a big mission: to work with local people to stop violence and build sustainable peace in some of the world's most conflict affected countries.  More than that, we want to change the international system so that it better supports the role that local people and communities play in preventing violence and building and sustaining peace.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Programmes Finance Officer, available to start ASAP.  This permanent position is based in our small, friendly London office and is well suited to an individual that is looking to work in a very hands-on role in a welcoming and supportive workplace.

The closing deadline for applications is 31st October 2021. 
CV and cover letter only at this stage.  Shortlisted candidates will then be asked to complete an application form.

Interviews will be held during the week commencing 08 November 2021.

The Benefits

We offer a salary of £35,000

Our benefits package includes:

• 25 days annual leave, plus paid leave when the office closes between Christmas and New Year.
• Study support - time off for exams, exam fees, study materials and professional body membership
• 6% Pension Contribution
• Training budget available for all staff
• Flexible working opportunities

The role involves occasional overseas travel to Peace Direct partner countries (up to 4 times per year), sometimes to remote locations, as required (post-Covid). You will have the chance to build on the strong relations we have developed with our current and potential partners and funders, identifying new opportunities and driving us forward, navigating a rapidly changing environment.

In return, we can offer you excellent benefits and a variety of activities and social events to promote health and wellbeing and enable our teams to enjoy a positive, cohesive work environment.

About You:

To join us, you will need

• Part or full accountancy qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in charity finance
• A good understanding of UK charity SORP and fund accounting
• Experience in working with a range of donors (FCDO (DfID), SIDA, PPL, GHR, USAID and the EU) and understanding of their financial compliance

• Experience of working in a complex, multi-entity, multi-currency financial environment
• An understanding of the financial risk environment within the international development sector
• Experience in creating multicurrency budgets and in reporting in donor currency (USD or EUR)

In addition to fluent English, written and spoken French would be beneficial to your application.

Still interested?  Take a look at the job description to see full details about the role and whether they match your skills and experience.
This post is only open to those with the right to work in the UK.

Peace Direct strives to be a diverse and inclusive employer, with equality of opportunities regardless of personal identity, and we are committed to improving our systems and ways of working to support this, including creating a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) working group, DEI strategy and recruitment guidelines. We strongly encourage individuals from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds to apply, including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), LGBTQ+, people with disabilities and people with mental health challenges.

At The Maypole Project we are committed to providing the best support to families who have a child or young person with complex medical needs.

Without the commitment and professionalism of our staff, we would not be able to provide the full range of much needed services.  This role will make a difference to the lives of children and families at The Maypole Project.

The role of Finance Officer is key in delivering accurate and timely management accounts and will act as a vital contact between the CEO and Head of Development. You will be responsible for the financial health of a company or organisation. 

Within the finance model, there’s great opportunity to expand beyond the normal operating arena, exploring projects, reserves management and other areas that support our day-to-day results.

As Finance Officer, you’ll be responsible for delivering month end reporting within our finance system, completing provisions where appropriate. You will be working within a team to ensure the finance systems and processes are up to date and accurate, in terms of both the financial data within the accounts and the administration of the finance set up within the system.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Unlimited as it transitions from an arts commissioning programme for disabled artists to an independent organisation. Unlimited is looking for a Finance Officer to deal with day-to-day book-keeping and administration of the company finances including cash flow, petty cash, banking, issuing invoices, grant-based paperwork and staff expenses. The Finance Officer will support the Finance Manager and liaise with the company accountants to prepare information for the year end accounts. We are looking for someone with at least 2 years' finance experience, a book-keeping qualification and experience of using accounting software, such as Xero. They will be able to manage their time, work in a team and independently, and be accurate and methodical. 

Unlimited is currently an arts commissioning programme that aims to embed work by disabled artists within the UK and international cultural sectors, reach new audiences and shift perceptions of disabled people. Unlimited is now transitioning into being an independent organisation from 2022, with a new mission, values and ways of working. 

Unlimited is delighted to meet reasonable adjustments, to adjust existing practices and procedures to meet access requirements and supports all team members to apply to Access to Work to cover relevant costs. 

For full info on the role and accessible versions of the job pack, please click on apply to visit our website.

Finance and Grants Officer, Temporary (3 months) £22 - 25 per hour (Umbrella)

For an international NGO based in central London, we are recruiting a Finance and Grants Officer to provide grant accounting for funds received in the US, and basic bookkeeping and accounting to ensure Donor, State and Federal compliance, including managing payroll and benefits payments. Ideally candidates will have experience in US government and foundation grants financial management and office accounting.

Main Duties:

• Monitor cashflow and ensure month end procedures are robust.
• Produce management accounts and review variances
• Produce Donor reports against project budgets
• Complete cost reports for Donors on a regular basis
• Review PO and process invoices for US office including expenditure linked to each project
• Process US payroll, pension, and control accounts with an external Bureau
• Work with the Executive Director to produce annual budget for the US Operations
• Reforecast income and expenditure according to Donor contracts
• Support audit processes and manage audits affecting the US region

What will you bring to this role?

• Part qualified CCAB with excellent understanding of accounting for restricted income and expenditure
• Experience managing grant income from US government and US foundations
• Experience in budgeting and preparing grant proposals
• Management accounts, internal controls, and compliance experience
• Access Dimensions experience
• International NGO experience

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Finance Officer, Permanent, Temporarily Remote, £26000 - £30000

Your new company
A charity, with the aim to improve the care and welfare of those affected by a neglected disease. This charity works to increase investment in research and raise public and political awareness to focus on radical improvements in diagnosis, treatment and support to build a future where lives are not limited.

Your new role

• Process income from diverse range of income platforms.
• Ensure daily banking sheet is updated
• Maintaining reconciliation of funds received
• Liaise with data team to resolve variances found
• Produce monthly reconciliations
• Approve sales invoice requests
• Manage and maintain the sales ledger and posting sales income
• Manage finance income mailbox
• Monthly gift aid sample testing
• Download bank statements daily
• Support with other finance duties as required

What you'll need to succeed

• Experienced in data processing, preparation and posting of income journals
• Experienced in sales ledger and general ledger accounting
• Understanding of VAT rules and treatment
• Proficient in MS Officer (Word and Outlook)
• Proficient in Excel particularly SUMIF, VLOOKUP and Pivot tables.
• Experience of using accounting packages and donor database systems to extract complex data and provide analysis.

What you'll get in return
You will be working with an award winning charity that will support you to develop your skills and expertise. This role is temporarily remote and offers a competitive benefits package including generous leave entitlements, and enhanced contributory pension scheme, a Health Cash Plan, life insurance and group income protection as well as free advice and support.

What you need to do now
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International Finance Officer, £32,000 per annum, Study Support, Hybrid working

Your new company
A well known, well established charity that exists to help people in crisis, responding to disasters, conflicts and individual emergencies across the world.

Your new role
You will support the International Programme Accountant to provide an effective financial accounting and reporting service to the specific region including

• Invoicing
• Month-end accounting and reporting processes
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Processing cashbooks
• Processing cash requests
• Monthly journals and accruals
• Producing and reviewing in-year financial performance
• Monthly management accounting
• Year-end accounting processes
• Financial controls and supporting the audit process

What you'll need to succeed

• Part qualified - CIMA or ACCA
• Highly computer literate with advance knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and accounts systems
• Sound knowledge of accounting principles - double-entry book-keeping
• Experience in carrying out balance sheet reconciliations
• Experience of preparing financial reports
• Charity experience desirable

What you'll get in return
You will have the opportunity to work with a well established charity with long term career progression. You will gain exposure to international finance in different regions. The teams is vibrant and fun yet hard working. Hybrid working options and study support offered once you have settled in.

What you need to do now
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• Are you a motivated individual interested in the arts, heritage and/or charity sector?
• Do you have the knowledge, skills and experience to provide critical support to the organisation’s finance function?
• Do you have an enthusiasm for developing financial systems and delivering efficiencies?

The Whitechapel Gallery is seeking a proactive and experienced individual in the new role of Finance Officer, to assume responsibility for accounting duties as a vital part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s finance function, and provide support to the Head of Finance and Managing Director in the operational financial management of the organisation.

You will have overall responsibility for managing the sales, purchase and bank ledgers for Whitechapel Gallery, and support the continuous development of systems to increase efficiencies and ensure the integrity of financial data for reporting and compliance.

Conditions of work

• Permanent contract: 4 days per week with a possible extension to full time
• Blended office and home working
• Salary: up to £25,000 (pro-rata) depending on experience
• Hours of work: 9.30am – 5.45pm, Monday to Friday. Work outside of these hours will occasionally be necessary as required and will be compensated for with corresponding time in lieu.
• Period of notice: 2 months

For further information, please download the Job Description. 

To apply:

Please complete the application form and equality & diversity monitoring forms and return to recruitment email by midnight on Sunday 17th October 2021. Interviews will be held week commencing 18th October 2021.

We request no contact from agencies or media sales.

The Whitechapel Gallery strives to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, ethnic minority, and/or disabled applicants as these groups are currently underrepresented in the Arts sector.

Charity number: 312162 Company number: 4093862

Do you have experience in an accounting role? Are you motivated by our vision of a thriving, closer Muslim community in the UK, powered by Zakat?

National Zakat Foundation (NZF) is looking for an experienced Finance Officer to join our growing, dynamic team. This is a new role which will support the Head of Finance.

About NZF

At NZF, we believe Zakat given where we live has the potential to change the lives of Muslims in need and help those in the community being held back by their finances. We provide the only national ecosystem that lets people get their Zakat to those who should be receiving it in the UK. Since our launch in 2011 we’ve enabled tens of thousands of Muslims to get their Zakat to those who need it up and down the country.

As Finance Officer, you’ll be responsible for processing day-to-day financial transactions as well as supporting in the month-end process. You’ll prepare reconciliations and assist the Head of Finance in financial reporting and budgeting.

About you

You’ll be highly organised and diligent, showing great attention to detail. You’ll have good team working skills and be willing to learn. You will have a good understanding of accountancy and will be proficient in Excel. You’ll have experience in using accounting software packages. While you may not have worked in the charity sector before, you’ll be able to show a clear motivation for wanting to work within the sector.

A well-known well-being and employment charity in central London is seeking a Finance Officer for a full-time, permanent role focused on Accounts Receivable / Sales Ledger duties.

The role is currently remote / home-based, but it is anticipated that there will be a hybrid working set-up moving forward, with office presence required around 1-2 days per week.

The role represents a chance to work for a well regarded charity within the sector, and you will be joining them at an exciting period of change in the finance team. The role will involve a mixture of sales invoice and income batching and processing from multiple income sources, in addition to credit control, banking and VAT processing duties.

Study support to progress with accountancy qualifications can be provided after successful completion of 6 month probation.

Some prior working experience in accounts receivable (sales ledger) or accounts payable (purchase ledger) is essential. Experience in the charity sector is also preferred but not essential. It is also important applicants have strong IT and finance systems experience.

Typical duties include:

• Ensure that sales invoices are raised and emailed or posted to customers for all requests received, liaising with line managers or other originators of requests where queries arise, in particular ensuring that no request is lost and hence the revenue is lost
• Use knowledge of the business to chase instances where requests to invoice have not been received but are due
• Use knowledge of VAT regulations applying to organisation to ensure VAT is charged where appropriate. Check nominal account coding on requests using knowledge of organisation and return for correction where necessary bearing in mind that errors could lead to breaching statutory accounts rules and company law
• Using programmes scrutinising electronic invoices and accounting entries produced by operations systems and ensure correctly produced before despatch.
• Balance all sales records at all times producing formal evidence of this on a monthly basis, producing an accurate and timely aged debt report each month for circulation to management
• Scrutinise all cheques received, ensuring where applicable that these are set off against the correct debt and are banked promptly ensuring they are kept secure in the meantime. Where necessary physically taking these to the bank whilst adhering to insurance limits
• Check bank statements and account for BACS receipts daily
• Use electronic credit card system to collect amounts directly from customers using Sage pay.
• Manage debt if the charity ensuring that those who do not pay to terms on an increasing level of seriousness.

Closing date: 28th October

Interview date: 4th & 5th November

Please send your CV for further consideration.

We are recruiting an experienced and motivated Senior Finance Officer with a proven track record of delivering to deadlines in a busy and dynamic environment. This is a varied role that will process transactions, perform reconciliations and help ensure that financial controls and policies are followed across the charity and its trading subsidiaries.

For more information about the role, please read the Job Pack. 

Job information:
The post of Finance Officer is a practical role which includes core administrative financial tasks. The Finance Officer also provides professional and consistent finance support to staff in projects, managers and volunteers, and delivers finance support to meet the organisation’s needs. Experience of SAGE Accounts and Payroll packages required.

How to apply:
If you are interested in being considered for this position please send an application by apply Via website 

Please be aware that, due to Covid-19 restrictions currently in place, recruitment staff are working from home and therefore we cannot accept postal application at this time.  If this is a barrier to you applying, please contact us as at the earliest opportunity so that we can support you to apply.

Programme Finance Officer, Central London – Charity, up to £40,000 plus benefits

After a busy period, a new programme finance officer role has become available in a charity based in Central London. The selected candidate will report directly to the programme finance manager and assist in financial planning, grant management and reporting. This position is perfectly suited to an ACA qualified auditor, looking to make their first step into programme finance or PQ Finalists who have exposure to grant management and international finance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the design and implementation of effective quality controls to ensure compliance with donor requirements and to maintain appropriate donor stewardship, including through manuals, checklists, templates, and other tools
• Monitor spending and activity implementation and ensure regular scheduling of grants management meetings, alerting the Programme Finance Manager and Programmes/Partnerships team about significant under or overspend on a timely basis
• Maintain internal tools that track active grants, cost recoveries and cash balances and ensure they are kept up-to-date
• Maintain internal tools tracking pipeline and secured funding
• Prepare financial information for internal reporting purposes, including (but not limited to) the quarterly CEO report, monthly dashboard and quarterly cash balances report.
• Maintain the grants management tracker so that grants are properly recorded and monitored, ensuring that input from the Programmes/Partnerships team and the Programme Finance Manager are incorporated on a timely basis
• Undertake administrative tasks related to grants, including setting up of grant codes (pipeline and secured), collecting and forwarding information to different units and executing follow up tasks as required
• Review budgets for concepts/proposals
• Carry out monitoring visits and audits on specific projects as necessary
• Develop and deliver relevant training and reference material on grants management, including procurement, donor regulations, IATI, finance and reporting for Programme, Finance, and other field-based staff; act as a resource for agencies/field units on donor regulations and compliance
• In collaboration with field units, prepare due diligence assessments for potential new partners or donors and ensure these are refreshed periodically
• Troubleshoot financial, donor compliance and procurement-related queries identified through monitoring grants or as raised by management or field units

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Part Qualified/Newly Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)
• 3 years relevant experience in financial accounting and financial reporting
• Experience in programme finance/donor reporting is essential, whether as an auditor or as part of a charity/as a trustee
• Experience of designing and managing effective administrative systems and procedures
• Experience of budgeting, forecasting and cash-flow management
• Good interpersonal skills with a range of stakeholders

Trace is an innovative recruitment consultancy. Our person organisation fit profiling tool, the Predictive Fit Profiler, is helping us fit our candidates with our clients from a personality, behaviours, motivations and cultural compatibility perspective.

Offering flexible working and the opportunity to work partially from home, we're looking for a talented and experienced Finance Officer to join a team of local hospice heroes in Rochdale. Having supported patients and families throughout the pandemic and beyond, this fantastic charity continues to provide specialist palliative care and support despite the challenges that COVID-19 presents.

Salary: £20,929 - £23,157
Hours: Flexible, full or part time, 22.5 hours minimum
Location: Rochdale with some homeworking

You'll be the main point of contact for an external payroll provider, so you'll need to be comfortable and confident administering payroll and liaising both internally and externally. You'll have a passion for improving ways of working and will support the leadership team in moving from paper-based to electronic systems in the upcoming months.

Charity or healthcare experience would probably come in handy at first, but certainly not essential. Currently using Sage so experience there would be an advantage, but happy to give support if you can demonstrate aptitude and attitude, alongside existing payroll skills and experience.

What can we offer in return?
* Flexible and life-friendly employer
* Unrivalled pension contribution (6% employee, 14% employer)
* Supportive, friendly team who love what they do
* Beautiful gardens and outside space to enjoy at the office
* Free parking and subsidised meals as extra perks
* Incredible job satisfaction knowing you work for an organisation that changes lives for the better

If this sounds like a job where you could add value and be happy, then please get in touch with a copy of your CV to our North West consultant, Amelia Lee.

We are considering applications on a rolling basis with a view to holding interviews on 2nd November, so please do get in touch ASAP if interested.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.