Are you looking for a role within a finance team who excel, whilst working in a friendly and flexible way? Do you hold yourself to high standards and want to see excellence in everything you and your team do?
Our Client
Our client is a registered educational charity and membership association. Their mission is to educate: to promote knowledge; provide up-to-date techniques for members and maintain and improve teaching standards.
The Role
The Senior Finance Officer will support the Financial Controller and is a key contributor in carrying out essential accounting tasks such as processing transactions and ensuring our clients financial transactions are accurately reported.
Working as a member of a small Finance team, the core areas of the role are listed below:
Cash and Bank
- Daily bank reconciliations, involving identifying and posting bank receipts for the charity’s different income streams.
- Preparing a list of opening bank balances daily and distributing to the CEO and Director of Finance.
- Post cash receipts for subsidiaries in Iplicit.
- Monthly Credit Card expenditure postings and reconciliation.
Sales Ledger
- Raising invoices for our clients different income streams and posting bank receipts in the sales ledger for both our client and its subsidiaries.
- Regularly identify any aged receivables and follow up with customers.
- Processing and payment of refunds of exam fees, membership fees, shop and online sales, course fees and other miscellaneous income ensuring they are authorised by budget holders.
Credit Control
- Follow up on unpaid invoices and failed direct debits promptly
- Producing monthly debtor reports for the Financial Controller
- Regular reporting to the Financial Controller the status of overdue account
- Clearing historic aged balances to ensure the accuracy of Aged Debtors
Purchase Ledger
- Prepare (weekly) payment run, obtaining authorisation for payments and ensure payments are recorded in the purchase ledger.
- Send out remittance advices to examiners / expenses claimants.
Journals
- Prepare and post the monthly payroll journal and any other manual journals at month- end as directed.
Reconciliations
- Month-end Balance Sheet reconciliations, including but not limited to external payment platforms, HMRC, Pensions provider and Bursary accounts.
Other
- Perform any other ad hoc duties commensurate with the job role including providing cover for other Finance Officers as required.
The Candidate
• Proficient in MS Excel and IT for communications.
• Experience in using Iplicit or similar bookkeeping software.
• A high standard of general education, including GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Mathematics.
• A recognised professional qualification in Finance, equivalent to at least AAT Level 4.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to understand and manage detailed information.
• Excellent customer service skills with a proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues across non-finance departments.
• Ability to manage workload with minimum supervision
• A commitment to fairness and to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion within the Finance team and Society.
• A wholehearted commitment to the mission of the Society.
The Terms
This is a full time role, working 9am to 5pm, (there can be some flexibility here, adjusting to 10-6 or 8-4, in line with the clients policy). You will be office based 2 days per week (one being a Tuesday). The annual salary available will be from £31,498 to £37,096 depending on experience.
Additional Benefits include
• 25 days paid holiday each year (plus 8 public/bank holidays). In addition, 4 days between Christmas and New Year when our office building is closed; 37 paid days in total.
• Employer Pension Contribution matched up to 8%. You will be auto enrolled into the pension scheme after 3 months of employment. Employee contribution must be minimum 4% and is matched by our client to a maximum of 8% (although employees can contribute more than 8%).
• Season ticket loan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP Service
• Funeral Concierge Service
• Life Insurance
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