Finance Officer

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Active Partnerships National Organisation to ensure that the charity can remain on its journey to make active lifestyles the norm for everyone.

The role will focus on assisting the Director of Finance and Operations in the transactional accounting and financial analysis for the National Organisation. We are a small, fully remote team, and the role will involve working with finance and non-finance staff across the organisation. 

About You 

The role is suited to an organised individual who thrives in an operational and people focused environment.  Someone who can take ownership of the day-to-day finance processes, can prioritise workloads, is personable and enjoys building relationships. 

Roles and Responsibilities

•Daily reconciliation of transactions on Xero

•Monthly bank reconciliation

•Company credit card reconciliation

•Processing supplier invoices and payments

•Processing and importing payment files to the online banking system

•Overseeing the employee expense system; processing expense claims and providing support and training to staff where required

•Invoicing of annual membership subscriptions, including communicating with finance professionals across the wider Active Partnerships network.

•Preparing and processing of monthly journals

•Month end reporting preparation including reconciliation of key balance sheet accounts

•Maintaining the asset register

•Management of phone and IT contracts, including Microsoft licenses 

•To provide support and cover for the Operations Support Officer as required

Skills and experience we would like you to have

•Previous experience in a Finance role.

•AAT (qualified or final stage), CIMA/ACCA studier or qualified by experience.

•Office 365 skills – including Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.

•Previous experience of Xero, Concur and Smartsheet is advantageous, but not essential.

•Able to take own initiative, deal with difficult situations calmly and deliver when other members of the team are absent.

•Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be confident in communicating with people at all levels to enable you to build good working relationships with all those around you.

•Strong organisational skills and the ability to multi-task are essential.

•Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

•Working in an inclusive and equitable way.

•Working in an environment where discretion and confidentiality are essential.  

•Able to understand and analyse a problem, make judgements about the options and find a suitable solution. 

Further information

•£27,000 Salary 

•Fixed Term Contract until March 2027

•30 days holidays (plus bank holidays)

•Home based but will be required to travel to different locations across England for internal team meetings (approx. 1 per qtr)

•6% employer pension contribution (when you contribute 2%)

•Flexible working hours

•Health cover (after initial probation period)

the full job pack can be accessed here Finance Officer recruitment pack.pptx