Finance Assistant

Opportunity: The charity Generation, which supports people facing barriers to employment into life-changing work, is looking for a new Finance Assistant.

Location: Remote - based in the UK (optional Hybrid including attending a Generation office in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds or Glasgow)

We offer flexibility to employees to balance their commitments, including medical appointments, parental or caregiving responsibilities, and personal goals.

Salary: £28,000–£34,000 per annum (FTE), depending on experience and skills. Salary will be pro rata based on working hours.

Contract: Part-time: 3-4 days per week

Informal enquiries for this position can be sent to andy.smith

As the Finance Assistant you will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of our day-to-day finance operations. This work is crucial in ensuring our bills and staff are paid on time and our financial systems are an accurate log of how we have spent our funds including from our donors and funders. In short, this role is crucial for our overall delivery of impact and work across the UK and Ireland.

Working closely with and managed by our Senior Funding Manager within our Growth, Data and Operations Team, you will take ownership of accounts receivable and payable processes, manage expenses and bookkeeping, and support monthly and year-end reporting. You will also provide first-line responses to finance queries and help maintain clear and accurate financial records across our systems. You will also work closely with our outsourced financial management company (who create our management accounts) and play a role in our annual audits.

Your work will span our operations in the UK and Ireland - technically two separate legal entities with separate bank accounts and payrolls, but that work day to day as one team.

Generation is a charity with the vision of a meaningful career for every person. Our aim is to support people facing significant and multiple barriers to employment into life-changing careers they otherwise could not access.

We achieve this with a unique methodology of profession‑specific skills bootcamp training, focussed on in‑demand careers (specifically in the tech, healthcare and green sectors), with extensive, ongoing pastoral support and matchmaking to employer partners.

Generation launched globally in 2015, and has grown quickly to become the world’s largest demand‑led employment initiative. We have placed >100,000 people into roles, working with over 4,000 employer partners to date across 16 countries and 26 professions.

Since launching in the UK in 2019 have now trained more than 3,500 people. Our work focuses on supporting those from diverse groups facing barriers to desirable employment. For these learners, we have achieved an industry leading c. 70% job placement rate with learners now placed at >800 employers.

We have secured transformative corporate funding from Microsoft, the JP Morgan Charitable Foundation, the Macquarie Group Foundation, Barclays, Blackrock, and many more. We are also the leading charity delivering under contracts from the Department for Education’s Skills Bootcamp strand. This has driven our scale to new programmes, regions and beneficiary groups.

By joining Generation UK&I, you will become part of an organisation committed to social impact and determined to play its part in changing the system in this context. The work is fast‑paced, exciting, and innovative.

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Generation acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard, protect, and promote the welfare of staff and learners and is committed to ensuring safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, and government guidance and complies with best practice. We carry out employment and right‑to‑work checks, and request a declaration of any criminal convictions from all staff as part of our recruitment process.

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