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About Us
Prior’s Court is a registered charity providing education and residential care for young people with complex autism aged 5-25, helping them to build brighter, more independent futures.
The Role
Are you a part qualified finance professional looking to build your career in the charity sector?
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, dedicated finance team, where you’ll play a key role in supporting the Financial Controller. As an Assistant Management Accountant, you’ll contribute to the financial and administrative operations across all entities within the charity, ensuring accurate and timely recording and reporting of financial transactions up to management accounts level.
Initially, this is an office-based position. However, upon successful completion of your probation, we can offer support from home for one day a week.
We welcome applications from candidates who are qualified by experience, with a strong background in management accounting and financial processing. If you have a keen eye for detail, excellent problem-solving skills, and a passion for making a difference, we’d like to hear from you!
Sales Ledger
- Build relationships with finance teams within local authorities (LAs)
- Liaise with LAs for information to enable invoicing ie POs
- Raise/process invoices (fee and adhoc) and credit notes for all entities
- Manage access to all LA portals
- Manage aged debt - ensure invoices are paid promptly and any queries are resolved
Management Accounts
- Monthly revenue recognition
- Balance Sheet postings and reconciliations including fixed assets, aged debtors, deferred income, intercompany transactions and stock
- Management of Fixed Asset system including acquisitions, disposals and depreciation
- Produce month-end journals
- Run variance reports and investigate differences
Cash Flow
- Assist the Financial Controller with monthly cash flow forecasting
- Produce accurate revenue forecasting
Banking
- Monitor daily bank accounts - income and payments
- Record bank account movements on Sage
Year End & Analysis
- Support the Financial Controller in preparation for the year-end audit and group statutory accounts
- Adhoc analysis as required by Budget Holders, Finance Director or Financial Controller
About You
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented finance professional with a strong track record in management accounting and financial processing. You should have:
- A minimum of three years’ experience in a similar role
- Strong organisational and analytical skills
- A systematic approach to problem-solving
- The ability to work accurately under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Experience using Sage or similar accounting software is desirable
- While formal qualifications such as AAT Level 3/4 are beneficial, we encourage applications from those qualified by experience who are keen to develop their career. If you aspire to study CIMA or ACCA, we offer full support to help you achieve this goal.
If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career, where you can grow and make a real impact, we would like to hear from you.
Benefits
We aim to make all staff feel valued and supported with training and a competitive salary along with providing the knowledge and skills needed to do a great job.
- 33 days annual leave, including Bank Holidays
- Company Pension (Combined 8% contributions, Employer’s 5%, Employee 3%)
- Employee Recognition Schemes, including an annual staff awards programme and long service awards
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our full flexible benefits package including the option of dental insurance, private medical insurance, critical illness, increased life insurance, partner life insurance, self-funded health cash plan and many other
