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This is a newly created role with the purpose of maintaining a culture of compliance across the charity whilst ensuring we adhere to all relevant regulations and laws.
Together with the Governance Manager, you will be the key point of contact for compliance, providing advice and support to the team and ensuring we have procedures and controls in place across all areas of the charity. This will include training to ensure the team is skilled and acting consistently, as well as identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing appropriate solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Promote a culture of compliance and be a point of contact for all compliance and data protection queries, providing accurate advice to ensure compliance with regulations.
- Develop and maintain robust procedures and structures that give the charity the ability to fulfil our regulatory requirements.
- Ensure the charity is aware of, and is reacting to, any fundraising, data protection and other compliance regulation changes, by understanding wider implications.
- Work to maintain a culture of compliance across the charity through the development of training and guidelines that are easy to understand and accessible.
- Conduct regular internal audits to ensure that compliance procedures and policy documents are followed and fit for purpose.
- Assess data risks and complete Data Protection Impact Assessments where needed.
- Assist the Governance Manager in producing ad hoc and annual compliance reports, as well as returns to the Charity Commission and Companies House, so that EHAAT meets their legal responsibilities.
- Update the charity’s data assets file.
- Review contracts and third-party agreements prior to signing to ensure they are in line with compliance regulations.
- Ensure adherence to Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Practice through the undertaking of fundraising standards audits.
- Provide oversight for the timely management of leases and contracts.
- Ensure necessary insurances and contracts are in place to provide required suitable cover.
- EHAAT is a patient focused emergency medical charity. It is essential that all our staff are competent and confident in the delivery of CPR and use of an AED (defibrillator) in an emergency situation. For this reason, you will complete in house, CPR and AED awareness training annually.
EHAAT is a charity which provides vital life-saving care to critically ill and injured patients across Essex, Hertfordshire and the surrounding areas.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Why Access Social Care Exists
Everyday millions of older and disabled people are denied the social care they need. Most local authorities can’t meet the growing demand for care, none are confident they can meet their legal duties in the future. This affects all of us, we will all need social care at some point.
We all have a right to hold public bodies to account. But most of us cannot afford lawyers so rely on legal aid. The 77% drop in community care legal aid cases since 2010 means we have nowhere to turn. Without access to justice, our rights do not exist. The rule of law is broken.
About the role
This is an exciting time to join ASC. We have a new strategy and are growing quickly. We have more than doubled in size and income since we started operating in April 2020 and we anticipate that this strong growth will continue going forward. We are dedicated to the people who need our help, but we also care deeply about our team and we think that work should be an exciting and satisfying place to be.
We are seeking a committed and customer focused Helpdesk Analyst to join our IT team. You will have a passion for technology and a proactive approach to problem solving. Your role will involve diagnosing and troubleshooting hardware, software and network issues. You will also advocate for the use of both current and emergent technologies, as well as facilitating the training of our team to effectively utilise these tools.
Responsibilities
- Provide first-line support to users by responding to helpdesk queries via phone, email, or in person.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues related to hardware, software, and network systems.
- Manage our IT Ticketing systems in Monday
- Escalate complex problems to the appropriate IT support teams, both internally and externally.
- Maintain accurate records of helpdesk interactions, resolutions, and follow-up actions.
- Install, configure, and upgrade computer hardware and software as needed.
- Collaborate with team members to enhance IT systems and processes.
- Contribute to the development of user guides and knowledge base articles.
- Collaborate with the business support team to streamline IT hardware procurement processes and co-develop better working practices, maintain an equipment log, manage the refreshment of returned laptops, and oversee telephone service, reviewing contracts for efficiency and fit.
- Assist with helping to codesign the on/off boarding of new/leaving members of staff and help manage the resulting tasks including data protection actions.
- Assist with new software rollouts in both their configuration and in staff training.
- Help introduce new digital tools within the organisation and improve adoption and usage. This will involve matching needs and running pilots, change and embedding processes.
- Work with external providers to ensure a high quality of service is maintained in the organisation.
- Create and manage a set of standard guidelines for using our digital tools effectively, and devise ways to promote their use. Additionally, manage the training programme that support these tools adoption.
- Support the CTO as required in any duties which you could be reasonably expected to perform in line with this job description.
This list of tasks is not exhaustive and will be reviewed from time to time in discussion with the post holder.
For the full Job Spec please see Job Pack
How to apply
We hope that having read this far; you still want to apply!
Please ensure that your CV and supporting statement do not include your name – use initials only. This will ensure that we avoid unconscious bias in our shortlisting process. To apply, please provide the following documents:
· An up-to-date CV
· A completed diversity monitoring form - found in Job Pack attached
· A supporting statement of no more than three pages, addressing:
· The essential requirements of the person specification
Please ensure you have the right to work in the UK before expressing your interest in this role. We are sorry that we cannot consider applications from candidates who do not have the right to work in the UK.
We only reach out to candidates who have been shortlisted. If you do not receive communication from us within two weeks following the application deadline, please consider that we will not be moving forward with your application.
Timeline for the recruitment process
Closing date: 23:30pm on 30th June 2024
Interview and assessments: Tuesday 9th July 2024
Please ensure you keep these dates free.
At Access Social care, we aren’t interested in tokenism. We know that if we are to make the biggest difference for the people that need us the most, we need to get Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and anti-racism right. Part of this is recruiting greater diversity in all our teams.
With this in mind, we particularly welcome applications from candidates with experience of the communities we serve, including people with direct experience of the social care system, and from marginalised groups, particularly Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups, older and disabled people, and trans and non-binary people.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
People and Office Assistant
Role information
Salary: £27,000 - £30,000
Role Type: Permanent
Location: The role-holder will be expected to have a presence in our London office at least twice a week with flexibility on working from home at other times
Right to work: You will already have the right to work in the UK with no restrictions
Closing Date: 12 noon on 27 June 2024
Role purpose
As we continue our exciting growth plans in 2024 to deliver on our ambitious goals and refreshed strategy,
we’re looking for a for an organised, thoughtful and proactive People and Office Assistant to join our
People and Finance & Operations teams. You will have lots of opportunities to develop new skills, take on
responsibilities and deepen your knowledge and experience in a supportive team, that is committed to
seeing you grow and thrive at work.
You will be joining a collaborative and purpose driven team overseen by a committed board. Our team is
drawn from a range of backgrounds spanning leaders and changemakers across financial services and
social purpose sectors. The reach and influence of our team makes this an exciting place to work and
enables us to engage important stakeholders at the highest levels.
Some key responsibilities
· People Support - supporting the People Manager with the full employee life cycle: arranging interviews, onboarding new starters, maintaining the HR & training software systems, and all other people related administrative tasks.
· Meetings and Events - supporting the Executive Assistant with diary management and other administrative tasks including arranging internal and external meetings and events.
· Office and Health and Safety - supporting the Senior Finance and Operations Officer on all office management responsibilities, ensuring a safe and clean workspace and smooth working for the team.
· IT Systems - supporting the administration of core business systems including CRM, MS Office, Teams and Sharepoint
To be successful, your experience and skills will include:
· The ability to work as part of a team and to maintain highly positive and effective working relationships with others
· Previous experience in a HR support or HR administration role
· Good working knowledge of all MS Office applications
· Being organised and methodical, planning out your work and prioritising tasks
· Managing your time to deliver punctually against agreed deadlines
· Taking the initiative to ask for help, support colleagues and suggest solutions
· The confidence to thrive when working alone, but never in isolation
You will also share our passion for our mission to increase the financial resilience of people in
vulnerable circumstances.
Why work at Fair4All Finance
Fair4All Finance is a not for profit organisation founded in 2019 to improve the financial wellbeing of
people in vulnerable circumstances by increasing access to fair, affordable and appropriate financial
products and services.
There are at least 17.5m people in the UK in vulnerable financial circumstances, who are poorly served or
unfairly excluded from mainstream financial services. That’s nearly a third of all adults in the UK.
We are funded from the Dormant Assets Scheme. The scheme is led by the financial industry and backed
by the UK government. This makes it possible for money in dormant bank and building society accounts to
be used to help good causes.
Our vision is of a society where the long term financial wellbeing of all people is supported by a fair
and accessible financial sector.
Our Benefits include:
Financial Security:
• Pension, group life assurance, critical illness, and income protection, family leave
Wellbeing:
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, agile working, health cash plan, health & wellbeing resource hub
(including an Employee Assistance Programme)
Fair4All Finance is committed to being a diverse organisation that is truly representative of the people
and communities we serve. We are an equal opportunities employer with an inclusive environment where
different experiences, expertise and perspectives are valued, where everyone is encouraged to grow and
develop, and all team members can contribute to their fullest potential.
Applications are welcome from people of any age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil
partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or
People and Office Assistant Job Advert June 2024 social economic background. We are determined to ensure that all team members and applicants receive fair and equitable treatment or are not disadvantaged by any inappropriate conditions or requirements being placed on them.
When we are recruiting, we actively seek to reach a diverse pool of candidates. We are happy to consider
any reasonable adjustments that potential team member may need to be successful. We recognise the
importance of a good balance between work and home life, so we do everything we reasonably can to
accommodate flexible working.
Applications
· Please apply through Applied by 27th June 2024 at 12.00pm.
· Interviews will be held on W/C 8th July 2024.
After the job advert closes, your answers will go through a sift process, randomising and anonymising
answers to take out individual information that could add biases into hiring decisions. This enables
application reviewers to review each answer objectively. People scoring the applications will not have
seen your CV at this stage of the process so please try your best to answer questions with specific
examples and without simply rephrasing your CV, which they will review later in the recruitment process.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
We are looking for a permanent Finance Assistant to join our Finance team. The team is vital to the Foundation’s ability to make an impact and improve health in Lambeth and Southwark. This role will be primarily responsible for Purchase ledger processing, filing and other administration. It will provide support to the Finance team in its mission to process and report financial information of the highest quality. The team is engaging, collaborative and supportive, as well as highly motivated and passionate about their work.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor the Finance Department mailbox and in-tray, ensuring that all incoming items are addressed promptly and according to agreed processes and timescales.
- Accurately process all supplier invoices, ensuring correct invoice details, budget codes, and VAT codes are applied, in line with agreed timescales.
- Validate new supplier bank details and any changes to existing bank details according to established procedures.
- Respond to incoming queries related to the responsibilities of the role in a timely and professional manner.
- Maintain static data in the finance systems, ensuring that remittance addresses, bank account details, and contacts are current and accurate.
- Assist the team with processing payment runs, ensuring all payments are handled efficiently.
- File all completed work in the appropriate files promptly. Archive all work in accordance with the department’s guidelines, maintaining files and archives in an organised and logical order.
- Support internal and external audits by providing necessary supporting documents as required.
- Perform other ad-hoc tasks as required, contributing to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the finance team.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Knowledge/ Qualifications
- Sound arithmetical abilities (Essential)
- Previous use of finance system(s) with Access Financials or similar products (Essential)
- Salesforce user experience (Desirable)
Experience
- Purchase ledger processing with complex budget coding (Essential)
- General office administrative experience with exposure to a variety of processes and activities. (Desirable).
Skills and Attributes
- Ensuring attention to detail and adherence to due process.
- Deliver responsive, consistent, and high-quality service to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Good interpersonal skills and able to effectively liaise with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Act as a self-starter who is adaptable and consistently works with integrity.
- Exhibit good planning and organisational abilities.
- Committed to the principle of continuous improvement.
- Eager to acquire and develop new skills while assisting peers in their learning and development.
Benefits
- Up to 12% employer pension contributions
- Annual personal development budget
- Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
- Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
- Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
- Shower facilities and bike lock area.
- Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses
- Employee Assistance Programme
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
At Ambitious about Autism, we're currently looking for a People and Onboarding Assistant to join our team.
You'll be responsible for ensuring successful candidates are onboarded in a personal and effective manner befitting AaA. You'll also participate with people support process queries such as staff changes, leavers, early stage policy queries as well as be engaged on supporting people strategy projects led by People Team colleagues.
You'll provide an excellent candidate experience when responding to onboarding queries and with staff when responding to HR/People support queries. You'll conduct onboarding checks, such as requesting references, processing DBS applications and right to work information, as well as maintaining accurate HR documents, records and databases, developing a strong understanding of our HR information systems.
We are looking for someone who has:
- Experience of processing compliance files, including DBS, referencing and Occupational Health verifications for external review such as Ofsted, CQC and Home Office.
- Experience of working in a busy HR team or agency
- Experience of using online databases and applicant tracking systems
- Experience managing end to end onboarding processes or similar compliance
In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible, hybrid working and more!
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the young people we work with. Please find our full recruitment pack on the link below.
If you have any questions about the role or would like to have a confidential chat, please contact James Axford, Recruitment Officer.
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Ambitious About Autism is a national charity for autistic children and young people. We stand with autistic children and young people, champion their rights and create opportunities. We run specialist education services, an award-winning employment programme and children and young people are at the heart of our charity's decision-making, policy work and campaigning.
We are looking for resilient, playful and passionate people to join us our Ofsted “Outstanding” TreeHouse School as a Specialist Teaching Assistant.
In this role, you will be working on a 1:1 basis with our Autistic pupils. You will provide support to pupils so that they can access the curriculum whilst also promoting their independence and self-esteem through community led activities.
Position: Specialist Teaching Assistant
School: TreeHouse School, Muswell Hill, N10 3JA
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent (Hours: 8.45am – 4.35pm)
Salary: £24,674 to £26,271 (based on experience)
About the School:
TreeHouse School is a happy and vibrant community where autistic children and young people learn and flourish. Currently, we have 100 pupils on roll aged 4- 19 years old. We provide children with the specialist, intensive and integrated support to enable them to learn, thrive and achieve. All pupils have a Primary diagnosis of autism with some that also have additional complex needs. TreeHouse School was inspected by Ofsted in 2023 and found to be "Outstanding" in all areas. We adopt a person-centred approach which ensures that the voice of the young person is at the centre of all we do.
As part of the Ambitious About Autism team, you will enjoy the following benefits:
- Term time only role (yet paid across 52 weeks)
- A competitive salary of up to £26,271 and an increase every September
- Free healthy breakfast available everyday
- We put mental health and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do; the SLT practise “compassionate leadership”
- State of the art Autism specific training including person centred approaches, positive behaviour support, medical training and understanding sensory needs
- Working with experts in the Autism industry with 1:1 meetings and training provided
- Eye test vouchers, season ticket loans and a cycle to work scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme, to help you balance your work, family, and personal life
- Continuous professional development including access to coaching and mentoring as well as e-learning and online training courses
This is a fantastic opportunity for somebody who wants to make a difference to our autistic children, their families and the community. If you would like more information, please refer to our job description or website.
Start date: September 2024
(Please note, this role may close earlier than the end date dependent on the volume of applicants)
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a skilled admin and people orientated person to support our two Joint CEOs (JCEOs) on the journey to further Cardboard Citizens’ ambitions as a dynamic, flexible and forward-thinking social justice charity and theatre company, working with people who have experience of homelessness and poverty or inequity.
This role works to support the Executive Director / JCEO primarily, with some diary support given to the Artistic Director / JCEO. The main focus will be to support governance, finance, fundraising, operations and general management of Cardboard Citizens. You will be someone who places value on systems, admin and infrastructure as the key ingredients that help to support the executive team to achieve success in their roles. You will also have experience in building robust relationships with a variety of stakeholders and enjoy being part of a great team.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Accountable for the accurate and timely processing of financial information in line with the Trust’s systems and keeping records in good order. The role provides quality information and compliant service to support strategic decision making and build a solid foundation for an evolving organisation.
Role responsibilities
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Process payments and maintain purchase ledger - process expenses, invoices and other payments in XLedger for payment in a timely and accurate manner and reviews supplier statements and outstanding items regularly and efficiently.
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Compliance and internal controls - Ensure relevant authorisations are obtained, and safeguards and protocols are followed about data protection, internal financial controls, and ethical standards.
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Act as the first point contact for purchasing queries - primary management of the shared finance email inbox; Acting as the first point of contact for external and internal questions. Ensures high levels of customer service and effective representation of the Finance Team and the Trust.
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Organisation - Maintain paperwork in an orderly manner: current/prior year records to remain accessible yet secure, older items archived and destroyed when appropriate. Ensuring proper records are maintained in the financial system.
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Finance Team assistance - Support finance team colleagues in providing information to other parties as appropriate, e.g.: as budget holding colleagues, fundraising colleagues, or external auditors.
Person Specification
Technical skills and minimum knowledge:
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Relevant bookkeeping qualification (e.g., AAT) or QBE
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Experience in a similar role, ideally working with large transactional volumes.
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Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the implications of accurate record keeping.
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Able to identify situations where any risk of non-compliance/adherence may arise
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Adept at working with accounting systems and MS applications.
Behaviours and competencies:
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Has a clear idea of priorities and manages own time appropriately by delivering key outputs and replies to requests in a timely fashion
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Adopts a customer service approach when communicating with stakeholders.
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Demonstrates resilience, resourcefulness, flexibility, and perseverance
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Demonstrates personal integrity and commitment to compliance and ethical standards
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Demonstrates empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially excluded backgrounds
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Role models inclusive behaviours and values
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Demonstrate a commitment to the values of the Trussell Trust
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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An exciting opportunity to join Spitalfields Crypt Trust (SCT), a vibrant East London charity dedicated to supporting individuals affected by homelessness and addiction. This role is crucial in ensuring excellent relationships with fundraisers and donors while supporting the administrative functions of the fundraising team.
Role Overview:
- Responding to Supporter Enquiries: Handle emails, calls, and postal enquiries, providing high standards of customer service.
- Fundraising Stewardship: Thank supporters and acknowledge key events.
- Platform Management: Manage Just Giving, Go Cardless, and other online payment platforms, ensuring accurate record-keeping and reporting.
- Financial Records: Maintain up-to-date financial records and donor databases.
- Event Support: Assist with the planning and execution of fundraising events.
- Communications Support: Aid in producing marketing materials and distributing them to SCT shops.
Salary: £24,324 pa FTE
Benefits: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with length of service) plus bank holidays (pro rata on basis of 35 pw full time equivalent), 5% employer contribution pension, BUPA Employee Assistance Programme, BUPA Health Insurance cash plan, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme.
Hours: 21 hours per week
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We’re hiring!
Female Finance Manager
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Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
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This post is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Anawim, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, B12 9RJ
Grade: Anawim Scale Point (ASP) 36-42
Salary: £35752 - £42,165 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week (some flexibility considered)
Responsible to: CEO & Head of Finance
From our Birmingham centre, Anawim provides trauma informed services including holistic support and advocacy to enable women to reach their potential
Our Vision statement:
A world where women are safe, free, valued and equal members of society.
Our Values:
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Anawim believes in the intrinsic value of every person and welcomes each women without judgement
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We are deeply committed to listening to our women and building services around their needs
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We help women to navigate the complex challenges they are facing and we do all that we can to support them for as long as they needs us
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Anawim empowers women to make positive changes to turn their lives around, helping them, one step at a time – to become independent
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We want the best for our women and to make sure their basic needs are met. We won’t rest until we’ve done all we can to keep them safe.
Aim:
We are looking for an experienced finance professional who has worked in the business or charity sector and who is looking to use their skills to make a difference to our charity. Demand for Anawim’s vital services for women is growing and we are looking for a finance manager who is flexible and adaptive while managing the day to day nature of the role. The finance team consists of a Head of Finance and a part time Finance Assistant.
Anawim’s finances are in good shape but its funding sources are unpredictable. Government procurement is increasingly complex and payment in arrears based on performance measures is increasingly common. Our present Finance Manager has developed management accounting systems that allow excellent monitoring of our financial position, KPIs are in place to give early warning of financial challenges and our audit reports are clean.
For more information, please visit our website to download the Job Description & Person Specification and an External Application Form.We will also accept CVs.
Deadline: We reserve the right to close this vacancy when the position is filled so we highly recommend you get your application in as early as possible.
Interview: We will be interviewing as applications come in.
A world where women are safe, free, valued and equal members of society.
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Job Title: Finance Officer
Must have: Full right to work in the UK (if you don't have this we unfortunately won't be able to consider you for this role but we encourage you to look at our other global opportunities on our careers page)
Reporting to: HQ Finance Manager
Hours: 37.5 per week
Principal Location:London, hybrid with a minimum of 3 and an expectation of 4 days in the office per week.
Background:
Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 250,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.
Part 1: Role Purpose:
This role is a key member of the busy HQ finance function. Although the role is primarily focused on the HQ finances, the role operates within the context of Street Child as a global charity and so also has interaction with the global finance team. The role offers the chance to work across a number of finance functions, and some of the subsidiary charities. It is essential that the applicant can juggle the complexities of a busy role with has varied work priorities. Key stakeholders are the HQ Finance Manager, Finance Director and the HQ based fundraising team. The role works alongside the Finance Assistant and plays a role in oversight and coaching of this role.
Part 2: Key Responsibilities:
1) (40%) Deliver all functions related to Accounts Receivable
- Ensure that all income from a variety of different sources is correctly and accurately recorded in the finance system and CRM (which is under development) on a weekly basis.
- Supporting with work on accounts receivable including accessing, downloading and saving in a systematic manner reports from donor portals, bank account and other sources.
- Working with colleagues in Fundraising to analyse and code income reports in Excel and uploading it to the Finance system on a timely basis, at least weekly. Following up on how to code any income which is not allocated to a source.
- Working closely with colleagues in Fundraising to ensure prompt collection of outstanding balances from customers, and sending out monthly debtor balance statements.
- Raising donor invoices and requests for payments, and issuing donor receipts.
- Income and customer account reconciliations and revaluations.
- Any other responsibilities relating to Accounts Receivable.
2) (20%) Lead the Accounts Payable process
- Whilst the Finance Assistant is responsible for all payments, the Finance Officer has a lead role in ensuring that all invoices are paid on time, in an efficient manner and that the finance system reflects the transactions within the correct accounting period and correctly coded in the system – including account code, cost centre, project code and donor code.
- Determine most efficient payment platform to process international payments, and ensure that recorded in the finance system at the correct conversion rate.
- Be a point of contact with the Foreign exchange agents to quickly resolve any questions.
- Work with the Finance Assistant to ensure accurate and timely recording of all approved supplier invoices, requisitions, staff expenses and other expenditure in the accounting system and that all supporting documentation for all transactions are uploaded.
- Managing at least two payment runs a week and additional runs as required; ensuring that all invoices for payment are correctly approved by the budget holder, setting up payments on online banking platforms and sending out requests for payment approvals to payment authorisers and verifying that all payments are fully approved in the banking platforms by the deadline set.
- Once the payment is made, allocating the payment against the invoices in the Finance system.
- Reviewing staff expense claims to ensure that all supporting documentation is provided before payment.
- Managing monthly staff credit card reconciliations and ensure that these are returned on time with all receipts and invoices and checking and reviewing classifications, with follow up as required.
- Carry out monthly Creditor account reconciliations ensuring that all balances are valid and backed up with appropriate supporting documentation.
- Fully deliver the set up all payroll payments in time for the monthly pay day. This involves ensuring correct amount and currency of payment (which may differ from the salary of the individual’s employment contract) and method of payment across all HQ staff.
- Any other responsibilities relating to Accounts Payable.
3) (40%) Month end reporting and reconciliation and subsidiary accounts
- Complete all balance sheet reconciliations, including bank and petty cash reconciliations and submit for approval by HQ Finance Manager.
- Once CRM system is in place, undertake reconciliation processes between finance data and CRM data.
- Carry out monthly revaluations of bank accounts.
- Ensuring supporting information for transactions is correctly stored in electronic format on Teams such as bank statements, remittance advices, credit statements.
- Assist in preparation of internal reports, including working with Operations Department and Finance department to review their monthly reports.
- Take responsibility to deliver the management accounts of two subsidiary companies: Children in Crisis and HQ transactions of Africa Educational Trust.
- Compile information for Gift Aid returns.
- General support and assistance to the team including administrative duties and managing the office post.
- Other ad hoc support to the wider operations team as may be required.
- Audit: support with the year end audit and provision of supporting information to auditors.
Part 3: Person Specification
Attributes / Essential / Desirable
Education / Qualifications
- 5 GCSE at Grade C or above including English and Maths
- Post-GCSE qualification such as A-Level or T-level or equivalent
- Degree
- A Good understanding of double entry bookkeeping
- Part qualified accountancy qualification.
- Full Accountancy qualification
Experience and Knowledge
· IT Literate with strong Excel skills
- Familiar with using Teams
- Experience of working in a similar role
- Experience of using a CRM would be an advantage
- Charity or third sector experience.
Skills and Abilities
- Attention to detail
- Highly organised and self-motivated
- Flexible and able to manage multiple tasks at one time.
- Good written, verbal and presentation skills
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Fast learner whilst not afraid to ask for help!
- Shows initiative in identifying problems and posing solutions
- Persistence and tenacity
Other
- Pro-active communication style including keeping team-members informed and updated as necessary.
- Work co-operatively and collaboratively with colleagues, other departments and other external contacts
- Strong communicator and able to explain work to other team members
- Good Interpersonal skills
Actively Interviewing
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About us
We are an award-wining and fast-growing local charity with an established reputation for making a real difference in the lives of people who have a learning disability and/or autism. Rooted in our local community we provide services and opportunities for our neurodiverse clients, including a wide range of creative workshops, learning and skills development courses and community projects through to employment support, work experience and job progression. We are proud to have won a Yorkshire and Humberside Social Enterprise Award with the judges comenting that we are "...a small but mighty organisation with so much passion and enthusiasm to make a real difference for their community”.
Our aim is to enable and empower our clients to develop their confidence, skills, independence, talents, health and inclusion –assisting them to lead the best quality, most fulfilled lives they can. Our services are in demand so we are now looking for an Assistant Manager who can help ensure we have the highest standards of service management, quality and delivery as we grow.
The role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Outside the Box management team in a role that will combine planning, development, operational management and resource, staff and volunteer management. Working closely with our tutors, support workers, job coaches, volunteers and clients, the role is a varied one that spans recruitment, client support, quality assurance, content/curriculum development, team management, monitoring and evaluation, marketing and much more. As a relatively small charity with dynamic and person-centred services, the role requires balancing practical tasks with management and forward planning. Whilst every day may be different, helping to oversee and support the high performance and continuous improvement of our client services is at the core of the role.
About you
You may have a background in post-16 education, training or employment support or experience in delivering and developing 'day' services for adults with a learning disability. You will certainly have a passion for our work, strong people management skills and a proven commitment to best quality and continuous improvement. The ability to adapt and embrace a changing, innovative environment and to model and support person-centred, impactful support for our client community are key.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location: Scorex House, Bradford – hybrid
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £63,210 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Are you a qualified Accountant that’s passionate about using your technical knowledge to influence business decisions? As our client's new Technical Reporting Accountant, you’ll be responsible for the preparation of and consolidation of management and statutory accounts and reports, taking a holistic view of the data produced and how this impacts their customers.
About the role and person:
- 35 hours per week
- Permanent
As their Technical Reporting Accountant, your key areas of responsibility include:
- Preparation of statutory accounts and annual FVA regulatory returns for Homes England for Group,
- Reviewing and updating Group accounting policies, ensuring they are compliant with Housing SORP, Accounting Direction and relevant accounting standards,
- Preparation of consolidated monthly management accounts and reports
- Planning and organising the annual budget setting and subsequent forecasts for all Group entities in line with the financial and corporate strategy objectives.
With an Assistant Technical Reporting Accountant reporting into this role, it’s important that you have the ability to lead and develop others. You’ll also work closely with external stakeholders including auditors.
Do you have what it takes to be their Technical Reporting Accountant?
You’ll have:
- A recognised Accountancy Qualification (CCAB).
- Experience of management accounts production and reporting.
- Experience of statutory and regulatory report development
- Great analytical and report writing skills with the drive to take ownership and seek solutions.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Previous experience of team management and development.
- Experience and knowledge of complex financial accounting systems.
Ideally, you’ll also have:
- An understanding or experience in the social housing sector.
- A working understanding of Unit 4 finance software or similar Housing Finance systems.
- A working Understanding of Active H
Location: The successful candidate will be required to live within a commutable distance to either their Bradford or Peterborough office. They’re a keen promoter of agile working and encourage the use of working from home, as long as they meet their customer’s needs.
They’ll provide you with the equipment and software that you’ll need for the purpose of your role however it will be your responsibility to have an appropriate space to work from as well as a suitable broadband connection/provider.
Salary: The spot salary for this post is £63,210 per annum for applicants who fully meet the requirements of the post. Applicants, who do not meet all the requirements of the post, will start 5% or 10% below the spot salary.
What will you get from them?
In addition to a competitive salary, they also have a focus on employees’ development. They support both professional and personal development, ensuring everyone has a development plan and provide access to a wide range of internal and external learning resources.
You’ll also receive:
- 28 days paid holiday (pro-rata excluding bank holidays) per year rising by 1 day per year up to a maximum of one working week.
- A choice of Pension Schemes including a Defined Benefit Scheme with a 7.5% member contribution or a Defined Contribution Scheme with a 4% member contribution and 4% employer contribution. Both pension schemes provide Life Insurance Cover.
- Option to purchase additional holiday of up to 2 of your working weeks (at managers discretion).
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- "Hapi" Benefits App with multiple discounts.
- Cycle to work scheme.
Who is our client?
They own around 20,400 houses across the North, East and South of the country. They are home to over 41,000 customers. They exist to improve lives, providing people with high quality homes, affordably. Whatever their housing need, whether family, single, older or more vulnerable – their customers come first. They are always at the very heart of their business.
If you feel great about putting customers first, then they feel great about you joining the team.
And they are a team. They live and breathe their values – they are Smart, they are Driven, they are Caring and they are Inclusive – are you? If you can do what’s right and challenge what you think is wrong, relish the opportunity to work with some fabulous colleagues to improve the customer experience and make sure they keep to their promises, then you are the person they are looking for.
Please don’t delay in submitting your application. Where roles are urgent or they receive a high volume of applications, they may interview and conclude the process prior to any closing date indicated.
Please note candidates must have current eligibility to live and work in the UK, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Join them and start your own journey with our client. They aim to be number one, and you could help them get there.
You may have experience in the following: Statutory Accounts Accountant, Management Accountant, Financial Reporting Accountant, Accounts Payable/Receivable Accountant, Assistant Technical Reporting Accountant, etc.
REF-214 528
We are extremely proud to be partnering with the Swedish School in London in recruiting a permanent Finance and Operations Manager to join their outstanding finance team.
This is a part time role located in Hammersmith.
About The Swedish School
The Swedish School is a private, not-for-profit school that provides education from pre-school all the way through to sixth form, following the Swedish curriculum whilst using London to add an international dimension to their teaching. Carrying their fourth consecutive ‘Outstanding’ award from Ofsted, they encourage a positive learning environment.
Role responsibilities
Finance:
- Develop and oversee the day-to-day accounting and manage monthly and annual closing and annual accounts
- Prepare annual budget and regular forecast updates and provide updates to budget holders
- Prepare monthly management accounts
- Manage contracts with clients (partner schools, parents and Swedish municipalities)
- Oversee school fee billing each school term and ensure all fees and extras are collected in liaison with the Finance Assistant
- Manage the collection of fees and credit control procedures
- Maintaining cash flow projections for the current and future years
- Prepare annual salary review
Operations Management
- Contract management, including overseeing purchase procedures
- Oversee and plan future investment needs of premises and other fixed assets.
- Manage the Finance Assistant and Site-Manager/Caretaker
- Work successfully with Swedish and English authorities, and other relevant stakeholders
General
- Ensure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties
- Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
About you
- Be fully CCAB qualified
- Have extensive experience in financial management and control
- Have extensive use of accounting software (Sage and Zero are desirable)
- Has good organisational skills and is able to work accurately with attention to detail.
- Has excellent communication skills
- It would be advantageous if you can speak Swedish
For a confidential conversation about this role please get in contact with Megan Hunter.
- Contract: Full time
- Starting salary: £42,979 (Band C1)
- Location: ActionAid, 33-39 Bowling Green Lane, London, EC1R 0BJ (hybrid)
Background
The Gender & Development Network (GADN) brings together expert NGOs, consultants, academics and individuals committed to working on gender equality, development and women’s rights issues. Our vision is of a world where social justice and gender equality prevail and where all women and girls are able to realise their rights free from discrimination. Our goal is to ensure that international development policy and practice promote gender equality and women's and girls’ rights. Our role is to support our members by sharing information and expertise, to undertake and disseminate research, and to provide expert advice and comment on government policies and projects.
Overall role of the Network Coordinator
The Network Coordinator is part of a small team comprising of the Director, Head of Policy, Network Coordinator, Communications and Policy Assistant and volunteers.
The Network Coordinator role lies at the heart of the network ensuring it functions efficiently while leading our activities to support our members in their work on gender equality and women’s rights. They work alongside women’s rights advocates and practitioners across a range of issues within the international development sector, while ensuring that the organisation runs smoothly.
Specifically, the role is to:
- Manage the network’s finances and funding processes
- Manage the administration of the Secretariat
- Coordinate support to the network’s members
- Coordinate support for the different branches of the network
Specific Tasks
1. Manage the network’s finances and funding processes
- Manage the finances and accounts including invoices, receipts, payments, book-keeping and quarterly budget updates and liaising with GADN’s accountants and payroll providers
- Complete all required financial reports and file tax returns
- Manage annual membership subscriptions
- Work with the Director in identifying and securing core grant funding
- Manage the administration of grant funding including invoices, activity monitoring, donor reports and relations with any sub-grantees
2. Manage the administration of the Secretariat
- Produce GADN’s Annual Review
- Respond to external enquiries in the ‘Coordinator’ and ‘Recruitment’ inboxes
- Manage GADN volunteers
- Keep all HR and other files and records in order
- Maintain internal communications systems (email, calendars, document sharing, team meetings)
- Manage the monitoring and evaluation processes of the network
- Ensure all legal reporting requirements are met
3. Coordinate support to the network’s members
- Act as a friendly, supportive and approachable face of the network
- Provide support to the network’s Working Groups, liaising closely with their Chairs
- Organise four Members’ Meetings per year, working with others in the team
- Organise other events and support for network members working with others in the team
- Induct new members
- Respond to requests for information from members
4. Coordinate support for the different branches of the network
- Service the Board of Trustees including arranging meetings, preparing papers and taking minutes
- Organise and minute meetings of the Network’s Advisory Group and Chairs of Working Groups
- Ensure communications and updates are shared between different branches of the network including reporting to the Board on Working Group activities
- Administer annual planning processes and support the development of the network’s next three-year strategy
5. Other
- Undertake any other reasonable task as needed
Management
The post is line managed by the Director. The Network Coordinator will also work closely with the Head of Policy, Communications and Policy Assistant, Co-Chairs of the Board, Treasurer, Working Group Chairs and members of the Advisory Group.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable financial numeracy and experience of organisational financial systems including accounts, budgets, spreadsheets and banking
- At least two years worth of administrative experience
- IT literacy - ideally including Microsoft Word, Excel, G Suite, and Squarespace
- Ability to write clearly
- Proven ability to organise and plan effectively, prioritise workloads and work on own initiative with limited support
- Demonstrated commitment to, and enthusiasm for, promoting women’s rights and gender equality
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Also desirable
- Understanding of gender and development issues, including racial justice
- Experience of organising meetings and events
- Experience of working with a network
- Experience of working with a Board of Trustees
- Experience of minute taking
- Experience of working in an NGO
To be considered for this role, you must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
How to apply
To apply for this role, please download and complete the application form and return it to us by 9 am on Monday, 24 June 2024.
Interview process
There will be two rounds of virtual interviews. The first will be held on Friday, 5 July 2024 and the second on Friday, 12 July 2024. Please note that for candidates shortlisted for the first round of interviews, there will be a one-hour virtual test on Tuesday, 2 July 2024. If you are not able to make any of these dates, please let us know in your cover email.
GADN is seeking people from diverse backgrounds and life experiences to join our team. As we continue working to decolonise our practice and build an anti-racist organisation, we actively welcome applications from Black women and Women of Colour who we recognise are under-represented in the UK international development sector. If you share our core commitments we would love to hear from you!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.