Are you an aspiring or current Assistant Accountant who is tired of the daily grind? Would you like 38 days of holiday allowance in a role with flexible working? How about a pension scheme with a contribution of over 20%? If this sounds like the role for you then please read on!

Robertson Bell are delighted to be partnering with a Birmingham-based education organisation on the recruitment of a permanent Assistant Accountant. This is an excellent opportunity to get involved with a recently restructured team and put your stamp on an already well established and highly regarded organisation.

The main duties of this role will be:

• Creating reports and analysis on a monthly basis regarding both the current and forecasted financial position of key budget holders
• Assisting the Finance Manager with annual planning
• Preparing quarterly VAT returns
• Handling high volumes of bank reconciliations daily
• Working in conjunction with the AP and AR teams to ensure cash is posted correctly
• Managing the preparation and posting of month end journals as well as accruals, generally overseeing the month end processes
• Completing control accounts for review by the Finance Manager

This position will join a small team within a wider finance function, offering the opportunity for personal development as well as salary increases and even more holiday as you progress. This role will suit someone who is a strong analytical thinker and possesses a solid range of knowledge in management accounting.

Successful applicants will be:

• Educated to a good standard, particularly with English and Maths
• Qualified to at least AAT level 4
• Experienced in working in a similar role (min. 3 years)
• Proficient in the use of technology, especially Excel
• An excellent communicator, able to converse with colleagues and clients at all levels

If you're interested in joining a progressive, forward thinking and modern organisation, please do not hesitate to apply below.

Salary - £35,635 - £40,248 + £2,500 or £5,000 accountancy allowance (Dependant on qualification status) with offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester.

The Government Property Agency (GPA) was launched as an Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office in 2018. The GPA represents a step change in the way that Government property estate and assets are managed efficiently, by providing innovative and flexible solutions across the Government estate. Our core service is to support departments in business change and workforce transformation. The GPA is the place to be for UK's leading professionals in estates, commercial, project management and beyond.

The Government Property Agency is expected to grow exponentially over the first few years of its existence; this equates to transferring hundreds of assets (worth billions of pounds) onto its balance sheet from Government Departments, as well as gaining responsibility for the running of a large part of the central government office estate.

The In-Year Planning and Reporting Manager will contribute to GPA developing a culture of strong financial management. The role requires the post holder to lead a team of three in delivering a function informed by analysis, underpinned by robust data and supported by analytics and visualisation tools. Further growth will be required as GPA expands its client and property base.

The responsibilities of the In-Year Planning and Reporting Manager will include

• Lead the preparation of Supply Estimates, reflecting the annual budget settlement with HM Treasury.
• Production of the monthly GPA and budget holder management accounts to tight deadlines.
• Lead the Management Accounts Team in analysing financial performance to identify variances and ensuring robustness of data.
• Support the identification and management of trends, risks and opportunities in the financial performance data.
• Lead the production of business intelligent financial data to support effective decision making.
• Provide technical advice on the public sector budgeting system.
• Drive continuous process efficiencies and improvements across the function, delivering maximum value for the GPA and ensuring robust controls are in place.
• Seek out opportunities to lead/contribute to cross-government and cross-finance initiatives outside of own role.
• Build relationships with key staff across Finance and the business in order to maintain effectiveness and relevance during change.
• Ensure Record to Report principles are embedded within the GPA.

The post holder may be required to undertake additional responsibilities as expected in relation to the role and grade.

Key Skills & Experience

• CCAB, or equivalent, qualified or part-qualified (or with sufficient financial/ commercial experience and/or the ability to gain formal CCAB qualifications within a reasonable time.)
• Good experience of financial reporting, ideally in a public sector context.
• Good experience of financial risk management.
• Good experience of using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
• Proficient using Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to seek and analyse significant amounts of financial data to inform decisions.
• Ability to put customer needs at the heart of delivery and communicate complex ideas to a non-financial audience.
• Ability to lead a geographically dispersed team.
• Ability to plan and prepare to maximise time and productivity.

HR Shared Services Transformation Manager

To £660 a day (inside IR35)

Birmingham

• Are you an expereinced HR Shared Services Manager with transformation experience?
• Have you worked within a sizable, matrix environment?
• Have you exposure to payroll?

If so, read on.

A government grant funded organsiation are seeking a HR Shared Services Manager with a 12 month assignment.

Purpose
Primarily this role will lead on a functional transformation within the HR Shared Service and Payroll team, including implementation of a HR case management system, process improvements, and ensuring a best in class HRSS model is fully operational and is valued by the wider business.

Duties

The role holder will manage, lead and develop a team of HR Shared Service Advisors, (8 employees) Payroll Advisors (3 employees).

It is a complex leadership role covering different HR disciplines and the purpose of the role is to ensure collectively HR Shared Services team are delivering efficiently and effectively with the customer in mind, and to continually look to enhance the overall service proposition that the team deliver. They will be required to lead change, coach, develop and educate line managers and employees through HRSS life cycle, providing guidance, motivation, and solutions to ensure the delivery of the overarching HR Operational Team objectives.

Payroll

• Oversee all payroll processes, resourcing administration, and on boarding processes, in line with agreed SLAs.
• Ownership of the HR and payroll module of Oracle
• Leading and devising the payroll strategy, including organizational structure, and flexing the delivery model to keep pace with the growth of the company.

Shared Services Management

• Lead and manage the HR Shared Services team based in Birmingham to ensure consistent application of HR processes, and delivery of HR services within agreed service level agreements (SLAs) and in a customer centric way.

• Develop a team HR and payroll professionals that are detail conscious, ensuring that HR processes are delivered right first time, every time.
• Coach, mentor, train and support the HR Shared Services team in providing 'first-line' advice to line managers and employees in the application of HR policies and procedures.

Operational management

• With support of HRSLT lead any change projects within the department
• Support and develop the roll out of transformation project work such as employee self-service as the organisation moves to the new Oracle ERP system, ensuring managers deliver against their job role and performance objectives through their teams.
• Lead diverse audits internal and externally with NAO GIAA HMRC and audit regulators
• Working alongside the Head of HR Operations, wider HR directorate and the SLT to execute the Central Services strategy and plan which incorporates Employee Relations, Engagement & Wellbeing, Recruitment, Reward and Payroll.
• It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Essential criteria

• Leading transformational change projects within HR ideally HRSS/ Payroll within a Shared Services environment
• Knowledge of OD and HR transformation
• Knowledge of HR best practice, employment legislation, policy application and compliance with data protection regulations, combined with experience of practical application in the workplace.
• Knowledge of HR systems and their importance in delivering accurate, reliable data to the business
• Knowledge of payroll managing a gross risk of 100 million for payroll, taking responsibility for all implementation and adherence to the payroll strategy. This will include Governance & Reporting Standards, Risk & Control Framework and Key Performance and Risk Indicators.
• Functional Payroll knowledge
• Knowledge of tax policy, tax legislation and employment regulations as they relate to reporting to HMRC
• Knowledge of Leading HRSS in a SME function
• Knowledge of accounting principles, ability to understand impact of payroll activity on financial statements and effectively partner with Finance.

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CRASAC invites applications from experienced female finance officers to join our committed team of staff and volunteers supporting survivors of sexual violence. 

Job Purpose

• To be the day to day finance lead for CRASAC, keeping financial records and preparing reports for senior management and external stakeholders, and supporting the Business Development Manager in preparing reports for the Charity Board.
• To monitor expenditure, track income budgets and match expenditure to the different funders, managing all payments into and out of the organisation.
• To maintain the finance records using financial software system, and to ensure these are fit for purpose to enable the charity's Accountants to prepare the end of year accounts.
• The post reports to the Business Development Manager. Support and advice will be provided by her and CRASAC’s voluntary Treasurer (a qualified accountant).

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain and reconcile financial records on software package
• Prepare clear reports (including monthly management accounts, both ad-hoc and routine) for management team, the Board and funders
• Manage accounts payable and ensure all suppliers are paid
• Be responsible for raising invoices
• Manage petty cash and staff expenses
• Work with Payroll Administrator to process payment of wages and associated payments to the Inland Revenue and Pension Company
• Understand confidentiality and exercise discretion throughout your role at CRASAC
• Attend staff meetings and training as required
• Carry out other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as deemed appropriate by Business Development Manager

Person Specification
All of the qualities we are looking for may be demonstrated through skills and experiences developed in paid or unpaid work. Applicants need to demonstrate in their application and at interview that they possess all the essential requirements.

Essential

• Numerate with enthusiasm for working with figures and spreadsheets
• Experience of working as a finance officer or finance administrator
• Able to maintain excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Educated at GCSE Grade C or above in Maths (Or equivalent)
• AAT student / possess AAT qualifications or similar
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 Packages (Experienced Excel, Word and Outlook user, with some knowledge/experience of Teams and Planner or willingness to be trained)
• Experience of working with accounting software
• Able to communicate clearly and appropriately, both verbally and in writing
• Able to plan and manage a varied, challenging workload and work under pressure
• Able to work independently within clear guidelines
• Able to establish effective working relationships with staff and managers
• Willingness to undertake additional training as required
• Experience of working within a team and able to take a flexible approach when responding to needs of the organisation

Desirable

• Experience of working in the voluntary sector
• Experience of building financial systems
• Some understanding of sexual violence and its effect on victims and survivors

How to apply
Online through our application portal on our website job page, where further guidance can be found.

• You will be asked to enter your name and contact details direct into the online form. These personal details will be kept separate and the shortlisting panel will not see them.
• You will be asked to upload a CV and Supporting Statement (or one combined document) addressing the criteria in the Person Specification. We can accept Microsoft Word and PDF format documents. You should not include your name or other personal details on any documents you upload. You will need to have the document(s) ready to upload before you start the application process.

A fast-growing and well-respected Vegan charity is seeking a skilled Finance Officer for a part-time permanent role based in Birmingham. The role will be for 3 days per week (22.5 hours per week) initially, but there may be the chance to increase this in time.

This represents an exciting time to join the charity as they seek to expand both in the UK and internationally.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the Finance Officer will support the organisation on a range of accounting and reporting tasks including treasury management, balance sheet reconciliations, payroll administration, accounts payable and accounting entries.

The organisation currently has core staff of around 50 and is funded primarily by its Vegan licensing agreements, in addition to a small amount of membership income, charitable donations and legacies.

The organisation is seeking an experienced Finance Officer, who is ideally AAT part-qualified with empathy to Vegan causes & issues, and an interest in the not for profit sector.

Key duties will include:

-Assist with Accounts payable and receivables

-Balance sheet controls accounts – assisting with reconciliation reviews, investigation of discrepancies and unreconciling items

-Assist with external audit procedures

-Credit Control

-Assist with reporting of creditors’ and debtors’ ledgers

-Assist with prepayments and accruals process accurately and in line with month-end deadlines

-Assist in preparation of management accounts, in line with set deadlines

-Assist in development and analysis of financial commercial insight

-Perform ad hoc expense analysis and feedback to appropriate parties

-Assist in the reconciliation and management of key balance sheet codes

-Assisting with internal payroll

-Processing contractor invoices weekly

-Calculation of Income Tax; NI and Student Loan etc

-Administration of P45’s, P46, P11, and P60 forms

-Pensions management

Experience required:

-AAT qualified or part-qualified ideally

-Experience in a directly related, similar post

-Experience with assisting with management and statutory accounts

-Strong budgeting and financial management skills

-Accurate bookkeeping and managing control accounts

-Payroll administration experience is useful but not essential

-Tax administration and relief (VAT, PAYE year-end)

-Good IT skills and familiarity with accounting software

-Understanding of basic purchase and sales ledger processes, preparing bank reconciliations, putting together simple journal entries

It is not a requirement that applicants must be Vegan for this role, however an understanding and empathy with Vegan causes is required.

Closing date: Friday 12th June

Please send your CV for further consideration

Want to work for a leading property organisation with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of assets? Do you want to work for an organisation that prides themselves on developing their staff within? Are you interested in working for an organisation that offers excellent benefits including flexible hours, home working and a substantial pension contribution? Then this is the role for you!

My client is a rapidly growing nationwide property organisation based in Birmingham looking for a Finance Business Partner to join their team in a role filled with fantastic growth and development potential.

The main responsibilities of the Finance Business Partner are as follows:

• Liaise closely with a variety of senior internal and external stakeholders, building excellent relationships with them in order to successfully aid in the development of new properties.
• Take the lead on the budgeting and forecasting process, reviewing them with stakeholders and analysing any variances that there may be.
• Full responsibility for the preparation of company management accounts.
• Lead on the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly reforecasts.

This is a wonderful opportunity for a newly qualified accountant to develop their career further in a broad finance role within a highly ambitious organisation with growth-plans in place to substantially increase in size over the next ten years. Furthermore, this company offers a fantastic benefits package including a substantial pension contribution, flexible working hours and working from home potential.

The successful candidate will have:

• Fully qualified as an accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, etc.).
• Experience of preparing management accounts.
• Ideally previously experience within a business partnering role, however, candidates without this are still encouraged to apply.
• A natural problem solver with excellent communication skills.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills (vlookups, pivot tables, etc.).

If you are interested in this position, please apply immediately as applications are reviewed daily and this role may be filled before the closing date.

Senior Finance Assistant

Are you an experienced Finance Assistant looking for a new challenge, working for an organisation that makes a real difference to the lives of vulnerable people?

Position: Senior Finance Assistant

Location: Coventry

Salary: £25k per annum

Duration: Full time, permanent

Benefits: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays pro rata, benefits scheme offering discounts and cashback at high street shops and major supermarkets, gyms etc., Free confidential access to 24hr assistance program for counselling, advice and support

Interviews: Due to Covid-19 Interviews will be held remotely online

About the role:

Our client offers care and support services to people with learning disabilities, autism, acquired brain injuries, mental health support needs and other complex care needs, helping them to live life to the full. They are seeking a highly motivated Senior Finance Officer to work within their Purchase Ledger function ensuring accurate and complete posting of all purchase ledger transactions.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring strong internal controls in respect of matching purchase orders and supplier invoices.
• Ensuring monthly and periodic balance sheet reconciliations are undertaken and reviewed.
• Ensuring a structured approach to supplier reconciliations.
• Working closely with the Financial Accountants to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the nominal ledger.
• Reviewing and challenging current processes and procedures and looking for continuous improvement.
• Matching, batching and coding of invoices
• Assisting in bank reconciliations as and when required.
• Liaising with suppliers & internal/external stakeholders

About You:

The successful Senior Finance Assistant will possess a positive ‘can-do’ attitude, other skills and experience required for this role include:

• Significant proven experience in a similar finance / purchase ledger role
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail
• The ability to cope well under pressure.
• Be able to work effectively as part of a team and excited about a career in accounts.
• The ability to work off your own initiative and willingness to learn.
• Fantastic IT Skills, particularly with Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent communication skills and confident liaising with other areas of the business.

If you feel you possess the right skills for this role, then apply today and join our client’s friendly team!

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Purchase Ledger, Senior Purchase Ledger, Purchase Ledger Clerk, Sales & Purchase Ledger Officer, Accounts Payable & Receivables Officer, Finance Officer, Payroll and Purchase Ledger Officer, Accounts Payable Officer, Purchase Ledger Manager etc.

Recruitment during Covid-19
During the COVID-19 restrictions, our interviews will be through video call.
Additionally, the successful applicant will be fully supported to work from home for the initial period where restrictions on non-essential travel are in place

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

This is an exciting time to join our innovative and dynamic Birmingham Essential Skills team as we work to end the homelessness of our members by supporting their learning and inclusion needs.

About the role
As Essential Skills and Inclusion tutor you will be responsible for the delivery of basic skills sessions in literacy, numeracy and digital inclusion. You will work across teams in a reflective, proactive way to ensure best outcomes for your learners and individuals for whom you are a lead worker.

About you
To be successful in this role you will:
Have experience in delivering essential skills sessions and hold or working towards a teaching qualification.
Display effective inclusion practices with a working knowledge of accessibility issues, specifically those related to digital inclusion, additional learning needs and ESOL.
Have experience of working with vulnerable, disengaged or hard to reach adults and/or young people.
Have experience of delivering personalised outcomes within an ever-changing environment.

The ability to build positive relationships with people from all sectors.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.

Closing date: Monday 15 June 2020 (11.59pm)
Interviews: Thursday 25 June 2020

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness. If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team by email, contact details can be found on our webpage.

To see our work in action please visit our website

Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094