Our client is is a pioneering national charity that cares for men, women and young people in custody, those with criminal convictions in the community and their children, family members and carers.

Location: Central office, London SE5, or combination of home-based work with at least three days a week in central office.

Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week

Introduction

Our client's vision is of a society in which justice is understood as a process of restoration and healing, in which prisons are used sparingly as places of learning and rehabilitation, and in which the innate dignity and worth of every human being is valued. We use person-centered, trauma-informed, restorative approaches in ways that respects peoples lived experience. We work for the common good of society, taking a public health-based approach working to reduce health inequalities, improve continuity of care and, ultimately, to improve the health and well-being of the people we work with.

As Finance Assistant, you will ensure the delivery and continued development of consistently high quality, cost-effective and responsive services, grounded in our client's charitable mission, vision and values.

You will be responsible for the purchase ledger, sales ledger, credit card management and maintaining the staff expenses app WebExpenses.

The Finance Officer will assist with maintaining finances and developing financial systems. The post holder will work closely with budget holders as well as external stakeholders including customers, suppliers and banks and contribute to the aim of the Finance Team to provide a 5-star service.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain the purchase ledger, including processing purchase invoices and payments, dealing with queries, and ensuring all accounts are accurately reconciled.
Maintain the sales ledger, including raising sales invoices, processing receipts, dealing with queries, and recovering debts.
Process and reconcile all monthly credit card statements.
Support the roll out, embedding and maintaining the WebExpenses App.
Assist with financial reporting to funders, including collating and copying detailed evidence of expenditure.
Maintaining petty cash records and reconciling the petty cash float.
Carry out inductions to explain finance processes to new members of staff and volunteers.
Provide administrative support to the Head of Finance as appropriate.

TEAMWORK

Whatever the role and wherever it is located, all our staff need to be able to work effectively in teams:

Be flexible in your approach recognising the need to support between services both within your own team and across the business
Listening actively, trusting others, taking responsibility for mistakes, and sharing the credit when things go well
Being open to other people's ideas and points of view, willing to act on feedback and confident to give feedback to others, as well as challenging where appropriate for the good of the team
Being aware of what others are working on and offering help and support where possible
Actively sharing knowledge, experience, time and talents
Being clear on actions that are agreed, committed to taking those actions forward as agreed, and prepared to hold others to account for their actions.

Equal Opportunities: Our client has a strong commitment to achieving equality of opportunity and expects all employees to implement and promote its policy in their own work.

Health and Safety: Our client is committed to a healthy and safe working environment and expects all its employees to co-operate with Pact to implement and promote its policy in all aspects of their work.

Our client is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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