Senior Finance Officer

A leading Essex charity, my client is seeking an experienced Finance Assistant / Assistant Accountant to join them in the role of Senior Finance Officer at their head office in Southend. My client offers significant home / hybrid working options.

Reporting to the Head of Finance and working as part of a professional, friendly and supportive team, key duties will include:

• Processing and coding purchase invoices
• Statement reconciliations
• Assisting with processing weekly BACS payment runs
• Daily and monthly bank reconciliations
• Support with income administration, including banking cash and cheques
• Service charge query resolution
• Support with weekly cashflow forecasting
• Monitoring supplier contracts and tendering process
• Producing and entering journals
• Preparation of insightful reports for non-finance stakeholders
• Assisting with audit queries
• Overseeing and supporting 2 x Accounts Assistants

The successful candidate will have strong transactional accounting and bookkeeping experience, combined with confident systems and IT skills including Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups). Experience of working in a small to medium size finance team and a strong team work ethic will be key.

• Flexible and hybrid working - Circa 1-day a week in office
• Starting salary circa £33500 - £35000
• 26 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance