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Finance Officer - Flexible within England
Reference: MAY20211087
Location: Flexible within England
Salary: £18,250.00 - £20,246.00 Per Annum, pro rata
Benefits: Pension, 34 days Annual Leave (pro-rata), Life Assurance
Do you have a flair for analysing financial information, overseeing budgets and working with others to get the most from limited resources? We are looking for a Finance Officer to support the RSPB's operational managers across Southern England, delivering our mission to give nature a home.
This role will be responsible for providing comprehensive business support for financial and budget processes and will be the main point of contact for the Finance Business Partner on all major budget and forecast queries.
You will need to work closely with budget managers and Fundraisers across the RSPB's Southern England team and take a flexible approach to ensure that financial support requirements are met.
You will need to develop and nurture effective working relationships with people at all levels and ensure confidential and sensitive financial matters are handled professionally.
The role is 0.6 full-time equivalent, meaning an average of 3 days per week, although we expect this to flex occasionally in response to peaks in workload, for instance at the end of the financial year.
This role is based flexibly and can be based at home - where a suitable home-working environment is in place - or within an RSPB office. Because this role will primarily be supporting the team across Southern England, our preference is for candidates to be based in the south. However, given most aspects of the role can be conducted remotely, consideration will be given to candidates across England.
Key responsibilities include:
- Act as Finance Officer for operational regions and functional teams; and the main point of contact for the Finance Business Partner on all major budget and forecast queries
- Coordinate and support timely receipt of budget forecasts and check accuracy of data in order to meet internal budget deadlines, including managing budget spreadsheets and working with budget holders to populate this for at forecasts and annual budget setting
- Establish, maintain and develop effective relationships with people at all levels on behalf of the Operations Director, to ensure confidential and sensitive financial matters are handled appropriately and professionally, for example when dealing with salary information
- Coordinate and attend budget review meetings in order to provide advice and support and contribute to the examination and challenge of data and budget assumptions
- Provide an overview of monthly management reports and transaction reports, highlighting any anomalies or errors to budget holders and provide support to make transaction amendments in order to ensure accurate tracking of all income and expenditure
- Co-ordinate and support year-end processes and raise paperwork required by the Finance Department to support accurate completion of yearly annual accounts, including grant accruals, carry forwards and compliance within given timeframes
- Provide support on country and/or UK-wide agri-environment payment schemes in the region, to include tracking payments, monitoring income, providing information for grant accruals, identifying agreements that are ending and supporting any transition to new schemes as applicable, working closely with the reserve and Rural Surveyor teams where required
- Provide support to Project Managers in setting up and establishing project budgets and for all project lifetime forecasts thereafter
- Work with the England Fundraising team to support budgeting, tracking, forecasting and claiming of externally grant-funded projects
- Provide eBIS support to the Operations Director and Area Managers as required, including processing of invoices.
- Provide timely and accurate information and support to Operations Director and Area Managers, enabling them to complete periodic budget reviews at key points in the year
- Provide basic finance training for new staff as part of their induction and ongoing development
What we need from you:
- Five GCSEs (or equivalent) to include Maths and English.
- Good working knowledge of Excel spreadsheets and ability to use other Microsoft Office applications including Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Experience of working with and understanding complex budget information.
- Sound financial analysis skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people within and external to the RSPB, both verbally and in writing.
- Good organisational and time management skills
Closing date: 23:59, 18 July 2021
To Apply and For More Information:
If you would like to apply or find out more please click the 'Apply' button. You will be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.
No agencies please.
Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity dedicated to diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure. Backed by our passionate scientists and supporters, we’re challenging the way people think about dementia, bringing together the people and organisations who can speed up progress, and investing in research to make life-changing breakthroughs possible.
This role combines some daily tasks, which require attention to detail to accurately record data and maintain records, along with a broader responsibility for employee expense claims which will allow the successful candidate to show their proactive approach and use their initiative in resolving issues and helping others around the organisation.
This role requires excellent focus, time management and prioritisation as this involves daily, weekly and monthly tasks which may vary in complexity depending on queries and requests received. The successful candidate will organise their workload to aid others in the team as needed, which will allow the candidate to gain wider Finance experience over time.
Main duties and responsibilities of the role:
- Managing the Finance Team shared inbox, dealing with basic queries and passing other queries to the appropriate colleague.
- Processing and payment of employee expenses.
- Purchase ledger support such as posting invoices to the system and assisting with payment runs.
- Imports of expense data between different systems.
- Monthly reconciliation of credit card statements to expense claims.
- Responsibility for maintaining records, such as the creation of new employees in systems, applications for new credit cards and changing of credit limits and expense approvers.
- Helping employees with their expense claims as needed.
- Recording, management and reconciliation of cash received directly to the office.
- Daily scanning of cheques received and sending to bank
- Filing and assistance collating documents for year-end audit.
What we are looking for:
- GCSE in Maths at a grade C or above (4-9) or equivalent
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Able to pick up tasks quickly and effectively
- Data entry and/or administrative office experience helpful
- Proactive and helpful attitude
- Methodical approach to workload
- Able to work with a wider team across the organisation
Location: Granta Park, near Cambridge
Salary: Circa £22,000 per annum, plus benefits
Please download the Vacancy Pack for more details.
The closing date for applications is the 4 July 2021, with interviews likely to be held w/c 12 July 2021. We would encourage applicants to submit their application at the earliest opportunity as the closing date may be brought forward at any time. Should we wish to contact you to arrange an earlier interview this will be arranged based on the availability of the candidate and the panel. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are unable to attend on a certain date.
In order to be considered, please create an online account using our Online Recruitment System which can be accessed through our Job Vacancies Page. You will be able to attach a CV and covering letter to your application, track your application and view other vacancies that may be of interest.
To view further details about this role and the benefits of working for us please visit the Alzheimer’s Research UK website.
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