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Finance & HR Assistant
Are you a data entry dynamo? An admin ace? Ready to put your skills to work for a cause that truly matters?
Your New Role
This is a brand-new entry-level position created to support our growing team. Based in the finance department, this role supports the whole business by ensuring our systems are kept up to date and essential data is handled correctly and promptly. The Finance and HR Assistant is an administration role that requires communication and collaboration with colleagues in different departments across the company.
This role is full time, on site at our office in Bermondsey.
What you’ll be doing
Finance:
- Sending invoices and statements to clients
- Using Stripe for retrieving client payments
- Filing receipts and credit card statements
- Data entry and administration of pensions and holidays information
- Supplier compliance checks
- Administrating client contracts - sending, receiving and filing
Human Resources:
- Conducting right to work checks on all new starters
- Issuing new starter contracts and ensuring they are signed and filed
- Ensuring our HR systems are kept up to date (data entry and checks)
- Administrating changes to contracts and pay as required
Stock Management & Office Support:
- Manage the stock cupboard and orders when required
- Issue kit to crew as required
- Maintain accurate stock records and advise when more is required
- Conduct regular stock checks
- Scanning and filing and distributing the post
- Administrational support of managers as required
Who you’ll be
- Self-starting, able to take instructions and ask: 'What’s next?’ when finished
- Willing to learn new skills
- Comfortable working in a busy office with lots going on around you
- IT literate, comfortable using Microsoft suite. Basic spreadsheet skills
- Effective communicator: you’ll need to respond to emails, speak on the phone and meet colleagues in person.
Location
Our address is: Units 1 & 2, St James Mews, 276 St James Road, London SE1 5JX
Accessibility
Our office is on the 1st floor and accessed via a staircase. Toilets are on the ground floor
Flexible Working
This role is on-site at our office in Bermondsey. We’re happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and flexible working at any point in the recruitment process. We want to get the best from you and make it work for you. Please talk to us about your requirements.
Contract and Renumeration
Full time permanent contract, subject to a three-month probationary period
£28,808 annual salary. Based on a 40-hour week.
20 Holidays + Bank Holidays + we close the office between Christmas and New Year
Normal workdays are Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:30
Application Process
Deadline for applications is Monday 6th January 2025 at 09:00
We operate a continuous process and will be booking online interviews from Monday 9th December
In-person interviews will be held at our office in early January
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We’re a friendly and inclusive bunch, and welcome applications regardless of race, religion, colour, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, or any other identifying characteristic.
If you’d like to talk about reasonable adjustments or just get some more information, please get in touch
Our Culture and Environment
We’re a friendly lot, and we enjoy socialising and having a laugh while we’re at work.
Our office is open plan with lots of natural light and plenty of plants. There’s a big kitchen in the middle for anyone to use, We love cooking and having lunch together there—and gathering for the occasional party. We have an annual awards ceremony for our crew, as well as lots of little socials throughout the year. There’s sometimes a dog or two around too.
Who we are
We are Connection Crew: a Social Enterprise providing teams of talented people to solve complex production challenges - from building epic stages to crewing iconic events and more - working across a range of sectors including events, construction and TV production.
19 years in the making, with multiple awards and thousands of events under our belt, all our work drives positive change for people and planet.
This role is split across Connection Crew and its sub-brand Stitch.
Stitch is the production company powered by Connection Crew. We specialise in Exhibitions, Live Event Production, Modular Installations, and Media Services. Every project is created to deliver environmentally-sound and socially powerful results. Supporting our clients’ ESG ambitions, funding training and jobs for people facing social disadvantage and tracking and reducing carbon along the way.
Connection Crew employs 20 people in the office team (including Stitch) and have around 200 crew on site.
Our Mission
We are on a mission to provide opportunities for people who have been affected by homelessness or faced barriers to work, to access training, mentoring and employment in our crew. Ultimately, our goal is to help end homelessness and reduce inequality by supporting people to access work that works for them.
To do our best by people, we need to do our best by the planet too. That’s why we are aiming for Net Zero by 2030, working in partnership with our clients to drive down carbon and reduce waste wherever we can.
