Finance Assistant

Job title:                            Finance Assistant

Salary:                               £22,199 – £23,997 per annum, pro rata

Hours:                                Part Time – 24 hours per week

(Position requires 24 hours per week. Schedule can be flexible, but must include availability on Fridays)

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 working with us and our Finance Team is at the heart of the organisation. This role will work 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 sales invoices for funding, rental & room hire
  • Taking pride in ensuring invoices are coded correctly and entered onto our Sage accounting package correctly
  • Keeping a keen eye on when invoices become outstanding, sending out statements and calling up to chase payment
  • Ensure that invoices are cleared for payment by checking against purchase orders
  • Dealing with queries and requests from our project teams
  • Assisting with the year end audit
  • Being a good team member and covering for other members of the team
  • General filing and scanning and any other special finance tasks that crop up

This role is subject to a Basic Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service

What do we need from you?

  • Experience of working in an office role
  • Be a great communicator
  • Well organised 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
  • And if you have experience of Excel and an accountancy package, even better

What you’ll get from us?

  • 25 days holiday rising to 27 days with service plus 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

 For further information about the role, or for an informal discussion please contact roz.henderson@groundwork.org.uk.

Want to apply

Great all you need to do is complete the application form below

Application Form

Finance Assistant – Job Description

Finance Assistant – Person Specification

All completed applications should be emailed to HR.NorthEast@groundwork.org.uk

Closing date:   Midnight on Thursday 3rd October 2024

Make yourself at home

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults

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