Overview
Home‑based role with occasional travel to London and Reading offices.
Responsibilities
* Ensure the integrity and efficiency of financial transaction processing and procedures for a defined group of stakeholders (vendors, staff, and volunteers).
* Maintain stewardship of resources, ensuring adherence to policy and procedures while managing the development of finance team processes and people.
* Support identification and management of risk within financial activities.
* Oversee the Payables and Treasury functions, ensuring accurate and timely processing of suppliers, staff, and volunteers, and manage cash‑flow to enable liquidity and maximise returns for reinvestment in charitable purposes.
Qualifications
* Proactive and collaborative with strong technical expertise and a people‑centred approach.
* Near‑qualified or finalist accountant (AAT, ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW or equivalent experience).
* Solid understanding of accounting principles and hands‑on experience with financial transactions, reconciliations, journals and month‑end processes.
* Motivation for delivering an accurate, efficient and continually improving finance service, with robust attention to detail and confidence in supervising control procedures to support strong financial governance.
Benefits
* Generous pension contribution.
* Employee assistance programme.
* Healthcare cash plan.
* Volunteer leave.
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and an additional 3 days paid leave between Christmas and the New Year.
* Opportunity to buy additional annual leave.
* Benefits discount website.
* Death in service benefit of 4 × salary.
* Incapacity benefit.
* Generous family leave and sick leave.
The DofE are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. All successful applicants will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (e.g. DBS/PVG or similar), including references covering any gaps of employment/education, confirm eligibility to work in the UK and complete a health check.
The geographical allowance is based on a member of staff having a home or office‑based postcode within 30 miles (as the crow flies) from Charing Cross, WC2N 5HS. The allowance is 7% capped at £4,000 per annum.
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