Finance assistant; Temporary, part-time

Finance assistant (Temporary, part‑time)

Apply for the Finance assistant (Temporary, part‑time) role at Green Alliance.

Closing date: 9am, Monday 26 January.

We will be assessing applications and interviewing suitable candidates as they arrive and reserve the right to close the recruitment before this deadline. We encourage you to apply early.

• Prepare sales invoices and credit notes on our accounting system and email tuam customer.
• Record purchase invoices and credit Сондықтан on accounting system and allocate to correct expenditure and project codes. Obtain approval of invoices in line with our finance handbook. Prepare fortnightly invoice payment run and enter to banking system for authorisation.
• Set up new suppliers on accounting system, completing Supplier Information Request forms and undertaking credit checks, where applicable.
• Process staff expenses, ensuring compliance with finance handbook, through to payment on banking system.
• Create new customers on accounting system and complete Information Request forms, where applicable.
• Be responsible for collecting funds from members usingcido GoCardless and Stripe where applicable.
• Import credit card transactions to accounting system and prepare expense sheets for cardholders. Once credit card expense sheet is completed by cardholder,十八 agree to receipts and process for payment.
• Process, reconcile and pay monthly payroll run through a bureau.
• Help to prepare quarterly VAT returns, ensuring compliance with HMRC regulations and the agreed formula for recovery.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliations from bank import including allocation of all income and expenses to account codes.
• Reconcile the petty cash balance quarterly to accounting system.
• Maintain fixed asset register, adding new assets monthly, calculating monthly depreciation and entering relevant journals to accounting system.
• Assist with providing end‑of‑year schedules and reconciliations for the annual audit and answering audit queries.
• Be responsible for the individual membership scheme, including maintaining a record of monthly membership income by member, whether the member is a UK taxpayer and preparing the annual Gift Aid claim.
• Assist the Senior Partnerships Officer in raising invoices for the business circle membership.
• Prepare sales invoices and credit notes on our accounting system for the All Party Parliamentary Party for the environment (APPG) and email to customer. Monitor cash receipts for these invoices and prepare management accounts for the APPG.

• Provide any other support, which may reasonably be requested to be undertaken within the scope of this post.

• Head of finance and operations director
• Office manager and Senior Partnerships officer
• All staff on financial matters

• Bank and other financial providers
• Auditors

• At least three years’ relevant bookkeeping experience.
• Knowledge of charity finance/accounting and the relevant issues impacting the sector.
• Experience of processing all financial transactions to the books of prime entry.
• Understanding of the nature of income streams within a charity, particularly grant and contract income and knowledge of accounting for restricted and unrestricted funds.
• Understanding of the principles of VAT and how to account for VAT.
• Experience of implementing financial processes to achieve efficiencies.
• Confident in using Excel and preparing financial reconciliations.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to act on your own initiative and exercise sound judgment.
• Good organisational skills and time management, and excellent communication skills.
• Flexible team worker, able to contribute to an inclusive work culture.

• Understanding of project costing.
• Knowledge of payroll and pensions.

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