Job Description

Cash & Payments Assistant - Charity Organisation - 30k to 32k - Central SW London

This opportunity will be working for an historic charitable organisation, set within beautiful grounds and supporting its elderly residents. The Cash & Payments Assistant will work in the small finance team, which includes the Finance Director, Chief Accountant, Systems Accountant, Finance Officer and Finance Administrator. This role could either be suitable for someone who is looking for a long-term job in such a role, or someone starting their career in finance and looking to gain a year or two experience.

SALARY ETC:

• 30k to 32k excellent benefits.
• Permanent, full-time, working Monday to Friday
• On-site, with potential of working one day a week from home after probation.
• Closing date is 29th August (may be extended due to holidays).
• Central SW London

REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have full right to work in the UK (no sponsorship or visa support can be offered)
• AAT Part-Qualified; or Qualified By Experience; non-qualified may be considered in exceptional circumstances where highly numerate can be demonstrated (such as relevant degree)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with management and non-finance staff
• The ability to adapt quickly to change, Learn new tasks for own development as well as to facilitate departmental cross training to support the team when someone is on annual leave
• Previous cash-handling experience & Understanding of financial systems, particularly accounts payable
• Experience of working in the charity sector would be beneficial.
• Excel experience
• Excellent customer service skills, with a 'can do' approach, excellent communication, accuracy, and a Team worker.

DUTIES TO INCLUDE:

• To maintain overall responsibility of the accounts payable ledger and ensuring that purchase orders and relevant authorisations are correct before processing the final purchase invoice.
• Preparing both BACs and manual payment runs for the various companies in the group and ensuring these are authorised in accordance with the bank mandates before being release
• Ensuring that key supplier statements are reconciled to the accounting system entries and ensuring that the year-end reconciliations are available to the auditors
• Dealing with all accounts payable queries arising both from internal and external sources
• Reconciling aged creditors for all companies monthly and addressing all issues highlighted in the report
• Processing the sales receipts and the required intercompany journals.
• Reviewing the sales invoices raised by other departments to ensure that all of them are correct before they are posted into the system. Posting of these invoices when correct
• Processing the monthly journals for the deferred income and completion of the reconciliation
• Paying cash expenses to staff and residents ensuring they are authorised and posted accurately
• Processing of the cash transactions into Exchequer and the reconciliations for those accounts