Salary: £36,000 per annum
Hours: 33.75 hours per week (Monday–Friday, 9.15am–5.00pm)
Location: Central London
Working Pattern: Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office initially, reducing to 1 day per week once established in the role
Contract: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract (Maternity Cover)
Are you an experienced Finance Officer with strong income reconciliation skills and experience working with CRM or membership systems?
We're recruiting on behalf of a well-established professional membership organisation for a Finance Officer to join their collaborative finance team during an exciting period of systems transformation. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working with financial data, investigating discrepancies, improving processes and taking ownership of reconciliations.
The organisation supports a large membership base and manages significant volumes of subscription and fee income, making this an ideal opportunity for someone with experience in membership, subscription or recurring income environments.
The Role
This position is predominantly focused on income accounting (70%), with a smaller purchase ledger/accounts payable element (30%).
Working closely with the Finance Leadership team, you will be responsible for managing high-volume income transactions, reconciling data across finance and CRM systems, investigating anomalies and supporting the organisation through a major CRM migration project. This is a hands-on role that would suit someone who is confident working independently, interrogating data, investigating discrepancies and identifying practical solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Reconcile income across bank accounts, CRM and finance systems.
- Investigate and resolve reconciliation discrepancies.
- Process membership and subscription income.
- Manage direct debit collections, refunds and income allocations.
- Extract, analyse and interrogate CRM data and financial reports.
- Support the migration to a new CRM system.
- Process supplier invoices and support purchase ledger activities.
- Reconcile company credit card expenditure.
- Assist with month-end processes and finance administration.
- Maintain accurate financial and CRM records.
- Support wider finance projects and process improvements.
About You
You will be someone who enjoys working with large volumes of data and can confidently investigate issues, identify trends and propose improvements.
Experience dealing with membership fees, subscriptions, deferred income or similar recurring income streams would be highly advantageous.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience within an income-focused finance role.
- Significant experience of high-volume bank reconciliations and income reconciliations.
- Experience working with CRM, membership or customer database systems.
- Experience extracting, analysing and interrogating financial data.
- Experience reconciling transactions across multiple systems.
- Sage experience is essential.
- Strong Excel skills, including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP.
- Purchase Ledger / Accounts Payable experience.
- Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
Benefits Include
- Hybrid working with office attendance reducing to one day per week once established.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Generous employer pension contribution.
- Private medical insurance.
- Employee discounts and wellbeing benefits.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Paid volunteering days.
- Supportive and collaborative team environment.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
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As trusts and foundations manager you will be a crucial part of the fundraising and communications team, and work closely with senior colleagues across the organisation to develop and win major grants to support our work.You will manage an existing portfolio of trusts and foundations that provide both unrestricted and restricted donations, ensuring all reporting and renewal deadlines are met. Importantly, you will be a self-starter and will build your own pipeline to hit income targets this year as well as identifying a pipeline for following years. You will work closely with colleagues across fundraising, ensuring a joined-up approach between institutional trusts andfoundations, corporate foundations and family trusts.
Benefits to working at The Childhood Trust include:
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Competitive holiday package including a day off for your birthday and the days between Christmas and New Year off
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Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
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Flexible working environment
To read more about the responsibilities in the role, please read the attached job description.
Interviews will be held in the week of 14th September at our office in Victoria.
We reserve the right to extend the closing date depending on the candidate pool.
Submit CV and a maximum 2 page covering letter stating how you meet the requirements set out in the job description.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Associate Solicitor will conduct civil litigation in Britain and oversee cases in England and Wales. The role requires a qualified solicitor with experience of running litigious cases. We are seeking to expand our work in Britain to include civil discrimination claims, actions against the state, and media law work. The post-holder will have particular expertise in one or more of these areas. Our cases also involve data rights, freedom of information, charity law, education law, international humanitarian law, and defamation issues. The post holder will join a growing team that consists of a Senior Legal Officer, Legal Officer and a Junior Legal Officer. In addition, our British work team has an Advocacy and Communication Manager and two researchers who monitor anti-Palestinian repression. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, LGBT or relationship status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex, or social class. We particularly welcome applications from Palestinians and those who identify as part of the Palestinian diaspora. ELSC recognises that applicants from marginalised communities are less likely to apply for jobs if they do not fulfil every single qualification. We encourage you to consider applying even if you do not meet every attribute listed. Our priority is to find the right candidate for the position.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct civil litigation and advisory casework in Britain alongside our legal team and legal network. Provide expert legal advice and representation, to individual clients and movement partners.
- Provide training and feedback to junior legal staff as appropriate. Collaborate closely with our legal network of solicitors and counsel with the goal of strengthening the wider movement.
- Develop and advance new legal strategies for challenging state and non-state repression of advocacy for Palestine in consultation with our legal network, national partners and experts.
- Support the development of effective advocacy campaigns to increase the impact of litigation outside the courtroom.
- Support ELSC’s outreach and public engagement initiatives.
Required experience, knowledge and skills
- 3-5 years + post-qualified experience (PQE) and admitted to practise as a solicitor in England and Wales.
- Experience leading on a variety of contentious and non-contentious matters in civil litigation, particularly actions against the state, media and/or privacy law.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to provide clear and concise legal advice on complex issues in a comprehensible and appropriate format.
- An ability to engage with the law critically and develop strategies that serve broader political objectives. Track record of collaborating well with other lawyers, academics and civil society organisations.
- Excellent client care skills, particularly in relation to vulnerable or marginalised clients.
- Experience in a role which requires coordination of multiple projects and/or workstreams concurrently, and the ability to manage relationships with partner organisations, coalitions and counsel.
- High level of English-language proficiency.
- Commitment to the Palestinian liberation and solidarity movement.
Desirable experience, skills and knowledge
- Experience working with campaigning and advocacy organisations.
- Experience with supervision and organisational development.
- Understanding of and experience working with a variety of local, national, and international jurisdictions, including those governed by common law or civil law.
- Dual-qualified in Scotland and/or Northern Ireland.
Other Requirements
- Demonstrate a commitment and sensitivity to the ELSC aims and objectives.
- Commitment to anti-racism, anti-discriminatory practice and equal opportunities.
- Willingness to travel and work occasional unsocial hours as required.
- Abide by all organisational policies, codes of conduct and practices and legal requirements.
- Treat with confidentiality any personal, private, or sensitive information about individual organisations, clients, donors and supporters, staff, and projects.
