Finance Officer
Location: M32 0PS
Department: Finance
Salary: £26,000 – £29,000 FTE (dependent on experience)
Hours: 936 annualised hours (average 18 hours per week)
Job Type: Part time
Contract Type: Permanent
About Us
Gorse Hill Studios is a dynamic and inclusive charity that empowers young people through creative arts, personal development, and community engagement. We are committed to providing a safe and welcoming space for all, with a focus on reaching those who are often excluded.
About the Role
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Finance Officer to play a key role in ensuring the financial health and compliance of Gorse Hill Studios. This is a varied and rewarding position, supporting day-to-day financial operations such as payroll, accounts, budgeting, and reporting, as well as contributing to funding applications and strategic planning.
You will work closely with the CEO and leadership team to maintain accurate financial systems, prepare reports for the Board, and support funding compliance across all areas of the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and manage financial systems using QuickBooks.
- Prepare monthly payroll, timesheets, and submissions to HMRC and pension providers.
- Prepare and reconcile monthly management accounts and balance sheets.
- Process all income and expenditure, ensuring correct allocation to restricted and unrestricted funds.
- Assist with annual accounts preparation and liaise with external auditors.
- Collaborate with the leadership team on budgets and forecasting.
- Provide financial data for funding proposals, tenders, and commissions.
- Manage purchasing and obtain quotes for services and resources.
- Process and record payments, banking, and petty cash transactions.
- Maintain and update inventory records.
- Support the continuous improvement of financial procedures and controls.
- Ensure timely and accurate submission of all financial documentation.
- Organisation-Wide Responsibilities
- Uphold Gorse Hill Studios’ core values and commitment to anti-discriminatory practice.
- Ensure services are inclusive and accessible to all young people.
- Follow all legal and internal policies, including safeguarding, data protection, confidentiality, and health & safety.
- Participate actively in team meetings and organisational development.
- Be flexible to work occasional evenings (up to two per week) and weekends.
Skills & Experience
Essential:
- Strong interest in finance and accounting.
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Ability to manage own workload and meet deadlines.
- Educated to degree level or working towards a relevant accounting qualification.
- Experience processing banking transactions.
Desirable:
- Experience in the charity or not-for-profit sector.
- Experience using QuickBooks or similar accounting systems.
- Knowledge of charity accounting and reporting.
- Experience preparing payroll and HMRC/pension submissions.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Enrolment in our pension scheme.
- Enhanced holiday allowance.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Regular team training and supervision.
- Wellbeing support.
- Professional development opportunities in a supportive learning culture.
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Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose - we call these our '3Ps'.
We achieve this in two ways. First we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity, and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.
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County Lines Support Service: A specialist support service for under 25’s, and their families, who are criminally exploited through county lines in West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester , West Midlands, Merseyside, and London.
Rescue Service: A rescue service with out of hours capacity to facilitate the safe return home, at a critical teachable moment, of under 25’s from West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, West Midlands, Merseyside, and London, where they are identified outside of their home police force area, in connection with county lines.
Job Description
- To recruit, manage, motivate, coach and develop a staff team including carrying out annual appraisals and regular supervision meetings. To manage their health, safety and wellbeing.
- To promote and embed Catch22’s vision and values in local service delivery
- To ensure all service user information, interventions and other data as required by the contract are recorded on the relevant data management system in line with Catch22’s policy.
- Weekly review of service data to identify any risks to service delivery, and outcome performance and put in place corrective actions.
- To be the designated safeguarding lead in the service, ensure that all safeguarding processes are followed and to be Catch22’s representative on local safeguarding boards where appropriate.
- To manage operational risk, health and safety, governance and safeguarding issues in line with Catch22 and Commissioner policies.
- Carry out regular case file audits as per the Audit Policy and Procedure and implement any service improvement or process change as a result of audit outcomes.
- To monitor referrals to the service ensuring they are in line with the volumes and eligibility criteria for the service; manage engagement with key stakeholders to promote the service and generate appropriate referrals to ensure the service / funding reaches the most appropriate young people.
- Be responsible for the allocation of referrals and ensure caseload management structures are in place including specialist female and mental health caseloads to maximise impact for young people.
- To ensure that the diverse needs and aspirations of all groups of service users are considered in service delivery and to enable all service users to fulfil their potential.
- To carry out such other relevant duties as may be required and as are commensurate with the nature and level of this post.
- When necessary, hold a small case load of high-risk clients ensuring appropriate support is given to young people according to their need who are referred by means of effective assessment and support planning.
- Provide consultation, information and where required, training and presentations, to other professionals, family and young people from a range of settings.
- Work alongside and ensure effective relationships with Children and Families services and other local agencies and treatment providers
- Liaise effectively with local partner organisations and other relevant agencies to ensure effective referrals, care and risk management as well as ease of transition and referral for young people and to promote the continued joint work of the service and other partners. Attend relevant meetings or delegate to the most appropriate caseworker to ensure Catch22’s service is fully integrated with other services.
- Work with service delivery partners to identify other professionals, statutory and non-statutory stakeholders to include in service training offer to improve awareness and impact of support for women and girls.
- To ensure meaningful participation and active co-production with service users and stakeholders.
- To promote services at local and national level, taking every opportunity to advertise positively the work of Catch22.
- Maintain and update professional knowledge and competencies ensuring that you and staff you manage are up-to date on all relevant Catch22 policies and procedures and are working in line with local and governmental frameworks such as Public Health England, Safeguarding etc. ensuring these are implemented in the service
- To manage your time and activities safely and effectively, to meet with the priorities and delivery requirements of Catch22; contributing to achieving the standards of care, quality and positive outcomes required
- To ensure effective communication and liaison with partner agencies and local groups.
- To ensure that young people, parents/carers/families have ease of access to a range of support mechanisms and services.
- To act as an ambassador for Catch22, upholding and promoting our corporate values.
- Act up as required in the absence of the Senior Service Manager.
- Be an active member of the management team attending, contributing to meetings and training events as necessary.
- This post will involve a travel across the region, and occasional evening and weekend working.
Qualifications
- A relevant qualification, or equivalent experience, in a relevant discipline – such as youth, community, health and social care, management.
- Basic ICT skills, with experience of using recording and data collation systems.
- Knowledge of engagement and intervention strategies.
- A Management qualification, NVQ3/5 Health and Social Care. (Desireable)
Additional information
Salary: £41,319 per annum
Hours of work: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Flexibility: Hybrid working arrangements available where service delivery allows
*Rescue Service requires designated staff to be on-call until 10pm (on a rota system).
*This role requires access to a car, and a full manual driving licence.
*This post will involve travel across the regional area, and occasional evening and weekend working.
Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.