ELS Recruitment - Accounting Professionals are proud to be exclusively partnered with a leading and well know charity on the Herts/Beds boarder.

The role of Finance Assistant supports two Accountants and takes primary responsibility for the Purchase Ledger function.

The position is being recruited on a part-time basis 25-30 hours a week, based on-site in beautiful surroundings. Days & times worked are flexible.

Purpose of the Job

• Accounting, purchase ledger, administration support to the finance team.
• General support to the needs and demands of the Trust finance related functions and projects.

Responsibilities

• Taking care of administrative tasks, such as correspondence, filing dealing with daily post
• Be the first point of contact for accounts payable including staff and volunteers expenses and assist with accounts receivables process
• Maintaining accurate and detailed customer and vendor records and creating new customer and vendor accounts where necessary
• Building a good relationship with internal and external stakeholders and providing the accounts team with relevant information
• Completing daily and monthly bank reconciliations
• Collecting monthly direct debits and preparing supplier payment runs
• Preparing and entering journals into the system
• Supporting the preparation of management accounts and month-end duties
• Reconcile accounts at regular intervals; reporting discrepancies, mistakes or potential fraud to senior management in time including supplier statement reconciliations
• Assisting in annual audit exercise
• Assist in any ad hoc projects required

Personal Responsibilities

• Demonstrate personal integrity in all day-to-day interactions with colleagues, working as a positive influence and role model, acting with professionalism and tackling challenges in a pragmatic, good humoured and collaborative manner to bring staff and volunteers along with changes and developments.
• An excellent work ethic, organisational and time-management skills to ensure deliverables.
• Computer literacy and a working knowledge of accounting packages and other relevant applications, such as spreadsheets
• Solid understanding of financial systems and processes
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate financial data and make recommendations
• The ability to function well in a team, as they need to provide support as needed