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Assistant Accountant

Venn Group

London, Greater London (Hybrid)

£20 - £23 per hour

Full-time

Temporary (3 month temporary contract, subject to further extension)

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Job description

Venn Group is partnered with a leading health charity to recruit an Assistant Accountant for a 3 month temporary contract. This role involves providing day-to-day, month-end and year-end finance support to the Finance team, managing accounts payable, processing income streams, and ensuring accurate posting of transactions.

Key responsibilities of the role:

Record and code transactions, invoices, and payments accurately in Business Central, ensuring compliance with finance procedures
Support payment processing, including international transfers, BACs runs, and staff expenses administration
Manage and reconcile trade, staff purchase ledgers, and petty cash, ensuring controls are followed
Process income from online platforms, bank cash/cheques, and raise sales invoices promptly and accurately
Perform monthly reconciliations for bank accounts, accounts payable, and income accruals
Monitor and manage outstanding debts, liaising with customers and suppliers as required.
Contribute to system and process improvements, supporting finance system upgrades and ensuring GDPR compliance
Assist with year-end financial statements, annual audits, and respond to auditor queries
Monitor the Finance inbox and forward relevant queries to other members of the Finance team

Ideal candidate profile:

Currently pursuing an AAT, CIMA or ACCA qualification
Experience in a similar role within a not-for-profit organisation
Skilled in using Business Central, or similar accounting software, with advanced proficiency in Excel
Capable of performing effectively under pressure and managing priorities efficiently
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to report to and coordinate with multiple stakeholders

Agency reference number: J85857

Location: Central London

Duration: 3 month temporary contract, subject to further extension

Pay rate: £20-23 per hour

Working hours: Full time

Working pattern: Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

This vacancy will be actively shortlisted so early applications are encouraged to avoid missing out.

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.

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Posted on: Friday, 13 June 2025

Closing date: 13 July 2025 at 14:19

Job ref: J85857

Tags: Finance, Accounting, Accounts Payable

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Finance Assistant

The Refugee & Migrant Centre

West Midlands (On-site)

£15,071.4 per year

Part-time (21)

Contract (12 months fixed term)

Actively Interviewing

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About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to join the Refugee Migrant Centre as its Finance Assistant. RMC is an established, award winning, regional charity, renowned for its work with refugees and migrants.

For over 23 years, RMC has assisted thousands of refugees and migrants from 162 countries. It has helped to remove the barriers to integration, helping its clients become equal citizens, using a whole-person approach to the delivery of services from specialist legal advice through to education and employment programmes.

With the organisation expanding the finance department is also expanding and there is need for a Finance Assistant who will work closely with the key members of the finance department. This is an exciting time to be joining the team, as RMC are strengthening and expanding its infrastructure following a period of growth in staff, activities and turnover (from £776k to £3.8 million in the last 5 years).

Purpose and Scope of the Role

Job purpose:  

To support the Finance Officer in all aspects of the finance function and be responsible for the Financial Administration side of the the team's daily activities. Maintaining accurate records and assisting with the production of financial reports for month end proceudres as required by the finance Manager. Must also be able to communicate effectively with internal and external staff and be able to work on using your own initiative within a team as well independently. The role requires excellent attention to detail.

Main duties and responsibilities of the role

The post holder will have at least 2 years’ in-depth Admin & Book-keeping experience which includes: 

· Excellent book keeping, including bank reconciliations, sales and purchase ledger maintenance. 

· Assisting the Finance Officer to record and monitor and track income and expenditure and maintaining balanced and highly accurate records using QuickBooks. 

· Regular use of Excel to assist with maintaining and updating financial documents.

· Maintaining petty cash and reconciling monthly for the petty cash. accounts for Volunteers' expenses and general petty cash accounts for all 4 sites. 

· Ordering equipment and stationery using the correct process and negotiating with suppliers as well as matching invoices to delivery notes. 

· Monthly supplier statement reconciliations as well as liaising with suppliers to deal with any discrepancies. 

· Analyse staff expenses in line with the organisation's policy. 

· Assisting with the pension scheme reconciliations each month. 

· Assist in the weekly payment runs to suppliers through faster payment matching, batching, coding, and posting supplier invoices

· HMRC and Pension Journals.

· Filling and scanning documents

· Assisting in any other tasks required for the position

Flexibility

In order to deliver the stated aims of for this post, a degree of flexibility is needed and the post holder may be required to perform work not specifically referred to above, such duties will fall within the scope of the job and be directly related within the appropriate pay grade. The job description will therefore be subject to periodic review with the post holder to ensure it accurately reflects the duties that are being performed

Essential

Minimum 2 years in an equivalent Finance Position.
Practical knowledge of QuickBooks 
Excellent Knowledge of using Excel for financial spreadsheets 
Familiarity of project funding and charity sector funders

Applications will be assessed and suitable candidates will be shortlisted and interviewed on an ongoing basis and the Job will be closed once a suitable candidate has been appointed.

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