Finance Assistant - Newton Aycliffe, United Kingdom - Groundwork

Groundwork
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Newton Aycliffe, United Kingdom

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Job title:
Finance Assistant


Salary:
£20,048 to £22,480 per annum, pro rata


Hours: 24 hours per week


Location:
Newton Aycliffe


We are Groundwork


aiming to be the UK's leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work.

Kindness is at the heart of everything we do here.

Each year we make an incredible difference to communities across the North East and Cumbria. We work on hundreds of individual projects each year, supporting disadvantaged communities and improving green spaces. We are proud that we change people's lives.


Want to join us?
We have some amazing people already working for us already. Our Finance Team is at the heart working with our project teams and financially keeping things ticking over.

We are friendly, good spirited and hard working - motivated to provide a great service to the rest of Groundwork.

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognize and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work.


What will a 'typical' day look like?

  • Take ownership of processing invoices we receive from suppliers
  • Ensure that invoices are cleared for payment by checking against purchase orders
  • Taking pride in ensuring invoices are coded and entered onto our Sage accounting package correctly
  • Pull together the information for a payment run to pay suppliers
  • Maintain direct debit paperwork
  • Help our Claims team with the documentation they need to give to funders
  • Process credit card, prepayment card and petty cash transactions and proactively chasing up queries and receipts
  • General filing and scanning and any other special finance tasks that crop up

What do we need from you?

  • Experience of working in a finance role
  • Good technical experience of excel and an accountancy package, preferably Sage.
  • Be a great communicator
  • Well organized and can meet realistic deadlines
  • Genuinely want to do your best pride in being accurate
  • Not afraid to ask if you're not sure
  • Work well with others

What you'll get from us?

  • 25 days holiday plus 8 statutory holidays
  • Family friendly policies to support work/life balance and time off in lieu for out of hours work
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Life Insurance scheme
  • Opportunities to visit projects and to volunteer
  • A strong feeling of wellbeing for being part of something incredible doing incredible things

Want to apply
Application Form

Finance Assistant - Job Description

Finance Assistant - Person Specification


Closing date:
Noon on Tuesday 1st August 2023


Groundwork NE & Cumbria is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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