Finance Officer - Xero experience available to start mid March 2025

Are you a Finance Officer with strong experience using Xero and available to start mid March 2025?

This amazing opportunity has come up to join a £7million turnover children's charity to join a new finance team. You will be joining a small team, reporting to the Finance Manager and working very closely with the rest of the organisation.

This is a full time permanent role, 35 hours per week

Salary: £30,000 - £32,000 per annum

Hybrid: Going to their office based in Camden 2-3 days a week

Key duties and responsibilities will include:

Day-to-day financial administration

Bookkeeping on Xero, raising invoices, chasing debtors, dealing with supplier statements

Ensuring correct VAT categorisations

Tracking expenditure on Xero in accordance with funder requirements

Monthly bank reconciliations against bank statements

Processing monthly expenses and petty cash claims

Responsible for managing the weekly payment run process (approval max and Xero)

Day-to-day financial administration

Banking of cheques

Day to day management of bank accounts, credit cards

Managing control accounts for CAF and Justgiving

Managing shopify, worldpay, stripe and other payment processing platforms

Organising card machines for events

Opening post and electronic filing

Weekly franking of post, topping up funds when required and taking post to nearby post office

First point of call for office mainline queries

Ensuring stock of cleaning materials and kitchen supplies for office

Candidates applying for this role must have the following:

AAT accounting qualification or equivalent

Experience with Xero accounting software

Understanding of VAT

Experience of donations platforms, stripe, shopify

An understanding of fund accounting, restrictions and unrestricted funds

Enthusiastic and creative self-starter.

Ability to multi-task

Interviews for this role will happen on 3rd and 4th March, 2025

Candidate start date 17th March, 2025

The client may decide to close the role within a week if they get suitable applications.

Candidates shortlisted will be requested to answer one question as part of the shortlisting process

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Finance Officer - Xero - mid March 2025 available to start

Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant