Job Description

You are responsible for managing a small team of three who take care of our transactional processing for both purchase/sales ledger and income. This is a practical and hands on role, which will require management, support and development of your team to encourage them to reach their full potential. You’ll have freedom to develop and implement processes to help us ensure transactions are processed in a timely and accurate way, ensuring efficiency and that we meet user needs.

Your team is responsible for setting up new suppliers on the accounting system and processing POs and purchase invoices so that suppliers are paid promptly and in accordance with contractual terms. In addition, we have many diverse income streams all of which have to be processed in a timely and accurate manner, including extracting data from our CRM, Raisers Edge, and inputting it into our accounting system, Access Dimensions. This team supports new initiatives across the organization, often around new income generation opportunities, ensuring that new income streams are thoroughly tested and robust.

You’ll also be responsible for our finance system admin, setting up new users and triaging problems that crop up to either resolve them using your expertise or escalate them for further support.

We are operating a Hybrid working policy, providing for in person work in the office where you will work closely with colleagues and helping you to give (and receive) necessary support when needed but the freedom to work from home where suitable.

Benefits
We’re particularly proud of our agile working arrangements which allow (as appropriate to the role) for flexibility around where and when we carry out our work to ensure we can achieve the best results for the charity, at the same time as balancing our working lives with life’s other commitments!

We also offer a competitive benefits package including generous leave entitlements, season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, an enhanced contributory pension scheme, life insurance and group income protection as well as a Health Cash Plan and free advice and support on pretty much anything via our Employee Assistance Programme.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

You’ll be highly organized individual who has a methodical approach to meet monthly and ad-hoc deadlines. You will understand the importance of accuracy in financial information and the need to be right first time – whilst appreciating the need to work closely with others to make sure this happens.

The aspects of line management in this role will require previous experience of managing reporting staff and you will use this coupled with strong influencing skills to get things done – helping to motivate both your team and wider Finance stakeholders.

You will have prior experience in transactional processing, finance system admin and bank reconciliations, combined with knowledge of financial accounting and VAT and awareness of charity reporting.

This role requires a practical and pragmatic approach to not just get the initial problem solved but to embed solutions so that the problem doesn’t recur. You can challenge the status quo as well as seek better ways, as opposed to accepting that things have to be done the way they have always been done – we welcome new ideas!