Finance Officer - Kettering, United Kingdom - Gateway HR & Training Ltd

Description

Teamwork Trust is a growing, successful charity working with adults with disabilities and mental health issues. It also provides services to the wider community including counselling and wellbeing.

We promote a friendly, supportive environment where individuals make new friends, access education, employment and volunteering experience and regain self-esteem and confidence.

Support is provided by a staffing workforce, working in all locations.

Teamwork is committed to delivering a service that enables people to live the life they choose.

We want to be known as a model provider of a high standard of support in existing services and extending our reach into new areas and broadening support.

Reporting into the Head of Finance, the Finance Officer will initially be based in our vibrant Kettering office, with an option for hybrid working after a satisfactory probationary period.

Occasional travel to our centres in Corby and Wellingborough will be required.


About the role

• Salary £15,333 £17,333 (FTE £23,000 £26,000)
• Hours required 25 per week, across Monday to Thursday
• 36 days holiday including bank holidays
• Hybrid working after a satisfactory induction period
• Support for CPD training and membership fees
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of 5%
• Free car parking at each centre is available

Main duties and responsibilities

• Assisting in the maintenance of the charity's nominal ledger accounting system in accordance with the organisation's financial policies and procedures.
• Processing and submission of payroll data monthly, carry out pension administration, in line with the charity's internal procedures and in line with statutory requirements under auto enrolment.
• Conduct weekly bank reconciliations for all bank accounts in accordance with the charity's financial policies and procedures.
• Reconciling balance sheet on a monthly basis fixed assets, prepayments, accrued income, deferred income, accruals and restricted funds.
• Support the head of finance to produce monthly income and expenditure statements for SMT.
• Preparing quarterly VAT return for head of finance.
• Ensuring that the charity's accounts payable system is maintained.
• Ensuring supplier invoices are authorised, and correctly coded.
• Raising weekly supplier payment runs.
• Ensuring that Teamwork's sales ledger is maintained.
• Raising sales invoices, processing sales receipts.
• Credit control.
• Managing the petty cash balances across the three sites.
• Clearing the suspense account on a monthly basis.
• To assist the head of finance in the effective management and delivery of finance services in the organisation.

Essential qualifications, skills and experience:

• Maths & English (level 4 or above) GCSE or O level grade A-C or CSE grade 1 (or equivalent qualification)
• Purchase ledger and sales ledger experience
• Sage accounting experience
• Strong planning skills to enable deadlines to be met
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Strong skills and experience with Microsoft Office
• Full UK driving license with own transport / ability to travel between the three centres when necessary

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience

• Qualified accountant (AAT or equivalent)
• Charity accounting experience (donations, gift aid, partial exemption)
• Previous experience using a purchase order system
• Payroll experience
• Ability to communicate and engage effectively with people with learning disabilities and autism

Teamwork Trust is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes diversity and encourages inclusion.

We aim to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Our recruitment selection criteria and procedures (including the areas or media sources which are used in the recruitment process) are frequently reviewed to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted, and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and that no applicant or employee is disadvantaged by provisions, criteria or practices which cannot be shown to be justified.

Job Types:
Part-time, Permanent

Part-time hours: 25 per week


Salary:
£23,000.00-£26,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Free parking
• Onsite parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kettering: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Kettering

Application deadline: 10/03/2023