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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.
