Finance Assistant (Sales)
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
Our client , are 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 they do.
Each year they make an incredible difference to communities across the North East and Cumbria. They work on hundreds of individual projects each year, supporting disadvantaged communities and improving green spaces. They are proud that they change people's lives.
Want to join them?
They have some amazing people working with them and their Finance Team is at the heart of the organisation. This role will work with their project teams and financially keeping things ticking over. They are friendly, good spirited and hard working - motivated to provide a great service to the rest of the charity.
They want you to be yourself and they value everything that makes you unique. They recognize and celebrate your difference and together they make this charity 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 their 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 their 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 they 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 them?
- 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
Interested?
To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.
Make yourself at home: Our client wants you to be yourself and they value everything that makes you unique. They recognise and celebrate your differences and together everyone will make the charity a special and great place to work.
As a Disability Confident employer they offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
This employer ensures that they provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that they organise. They are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Their 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 they appoint are suitable to work with children, young people and adults.
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