PLEASE NOTE - Applicants will only be considered if you provide both a CV and Cover Letter
The role is only open to women, in accordance with the sex-based exemptions of the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1.
Finance Administrator
Salary: £26,686 per annum, pro-rata
Location: In person, based in Leeds, or based in one of our women's centres, Bradford, Wakefield
Hours: 16 hours per week hours per week available, (part-time)
Closing date: Wednesday 1st October, 12pm
Interview date: W/c 20th October
Together Women is looking for an outstanding Finance Administrator to support our Chief Finance Officer with administrative matters.
Join Our Team
* Do you have strong analytical skills and a proven capacity to manage detailed processes?
* Are you driven and passionate about working within a women-centred support service?
* Do you believe in our values; to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaborate, innovate and take accountability?
If so, we would love to hear from you
What we can offer you
Employee Benefits:
* 25 days (pro-rata, per annum) holiday increasing by one day per year to a max of 30 days, plus public holidays
* Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
* Annual cost of living increase, up to 4%
* Enhanced Training and Induction programme covering all areas of Together Women's work
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme with discount offers and free telephone counselling service
* Access meditation and other online wellbeing support on our wellbeing platform
* Employee eye-care scheme and free eye tests
* Organisation-wide away days
* Career development pathways
We actively encourage applications from women from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of skills and experiences.
We are particularly interested to hear from Black, Asian and minority ethnic women and women who have personal experience of the criminal justice system.
About Us
Together Women is an award-winning charity that supports women and girls across Yorkshire and Humberside, with particular focus on women who are involved in or at risk of entering the criminal justice system. Our vision is for women and girls to feel safe, valued and in control of their own life choices.
From our women centres, we provide tailored support across a range of different pathways, including housing, domestic abuse, debt and unemployment. As a charity led by women, for women, we provide trauma informed, holistic support to help break cycles of trauma, abuse and re-offending, and evoke systems change.
Role Summary
As Finance Administrator you will work with the Chief Finance Officer to support with financial administration of Together Women. This role will be integral to the annual audit process and will feed into the organisation's strategic vision.
This role will support centre managers' day-day financial tasks; including bank reconciliation, invoicing, petty cash and credit card expenditure / cost coding within the organisational finance function Xero.
Alongside managing some of finance tasks, we are seeking a proactive Finance Administrator to assist with the day-to-day administrative finance tasks, and will include liasing with managers, reporting on spend and managing some of our gas/electricity accounts.
Key accountabilities
Finance Administration
* Managing the petty cash for the centres as required.
* Maintain the accounts
* Manage the Finance inbox
* Upload and code Purchase Invoices onto our Dext programme for approval
* Maintain Debtors & Creditors Ledger.
* Support with the weekly Bacs run.
* Conduct book-keeping task as instructed by the Manager, and maintain financial records.
* Prepare and balance financial spreadsheets.
* Assist with the planning and budgeting development with the Manager.
General Responsibilities
* Be flexible and carry out other associated duties as may arise, develop or be assigned in line with the broad remit of the position.
* Contribute to overall management and organisation development of TW by attending meetings and training as required.
* Maintain and improve competencies through continuous professional development.
* Abide by all organisational policies, codes of conduct and practices.
* Actively support and promote inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity in the workplace.
* Treat confidentially any personal, private or sensitive information about service delivery, individual organisations, customers and staff.
Role Requirements/Person Specification
Essential:
* Proven experience within office administration role, to include maintaining accounts, financial statements and reports.
* Knowledge of financial software packages to include XERO/Sage or other bespoke packages and payroll systems. Bookkeeping.
* Confident knowledge to ensure all financial regulations are followed.
* Excellent communication – both written and verbal and time management skills.
* Analytical and problem solving mindset.
Desirable:
* Qualification: AAT Level 2
* Experience of financial administration in the charitable sector
Skills and Abilities
* Personal resilience and the ability to stay focused in a rapidly changing environment.
* Willingness and enthusiasm to gain an understanding of the Criminal Justice System, agencies working in it and current policy development in the field as well as national and local government structures, funding streams and lines of decision-making.
* Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and equal opportunities. An ability to apply awareness of diversity issues to all areas of work.
* Reliable and self-reliant with a service user centred approach.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to deal confidently with a wide range of tasks and handle problems coolly and positively.
* Good organisational skills.
* Effective team worker.
* Commitment to personal development and equal opportunities.
* The ability to originate, introduce and be open to, new practices, concepts, ideas and change and to continuously improve.
* Commitment to working in a women centred way.
Notes
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order Due to the nature of our work, it will be necessary for an enhanced disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service for details of any previous criminal convictions which are not protected under the Act. However, whilst a DBS is a requirement, we encourage those with lived experience of the criminal justice system to apply. A criminal record will not necessarily mean ineligibility for the role.
We are also keen to represent the diversity of the people we serve, and welcome applications from those who are under-represented in leadership positions in the charity sector, including women from Black, Asian and other communities that experience racism.
This post is restricted to women only as a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9 paragraph 1, Equality Act 2010.
To apply, please include your CV and detailed covering letter setting out how you meet the role requirements/person specification listed on the job description.
PLEASE NOTE - applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
Please also complete our equality and diversity monitoring form:
The information you provide will:
* not be used as part of the selection process;
* not be seen by the interview panel;
* only be used for statistical purposes. No information will be published which allows any individual to be identified.
Closing date: Wednesday 1st October, 12pm
Interview date: W/c 20th October
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: £26,686.00 per year
Benefits:
* Company pension
Application question(s):
* Have you attached your detailed cover letter outlining how you meet the role requirements detailed in the person specification? Please note: Applications will only be considered if you provide both a CV and detailed cover letter.
Work Location: In person