Your newpany
Hays Accountancy & Finance are delighted to be partnering with a business near Diss, Norfolk, who are looking for a part-time bookkeeper / accountant to take the lead in managing the day-to-day accounts, offering flexible hours of hours, which can be worked over 3-days or working hours each day which is ideal for school hours.
Your new role
In this newly created part-time finance job, you will be solely responsible for producing accounts to trial balance across the ledgers, posting journals, and preparing monthly and annual financial statements, which will involve analysis of ie, budget variances across departments, and management reports detailing year-to-date, year-on-year variances through to supporting the Office Manager and Trustees at financial year-end audits.
Your other key responsibilities will be ensuring supplier invoices are paid, preparing & submitting quarterly VAT submissions, undertaking various bank account reconciliations, managing various ie streams and overall cashflow management. Any experience of charity accounting, including SORP reporting, VAT exceptions, gift aid and monitoring of grant funding of restricted and unrestricted funds would be advantageous but not essential.
This is an ideal opportunity for a proactive Senior Bookkeeper / Accountant to play a pivotal role in managing the day-to-day accounts as well as supporting the business with their band of volunteers to maximise revenue and manage operational costs.
What you'll need to succeed
The organisation has gone through a period of positive change and growth which now requires an experienced accountant / senior bookkeeper who has a formal qualification (AAT, ACCA, CIMA) to take them to the next phase. Therefore, you must be able to manage the ledgers, prepare and monitor monthly management accounts detailing variances, ideally using Xero, and have the confidence to assist inmercial decisions to maximise revenue and manage costs. It is expected you will have a strong analytical approach to your work.
What you'll get in return
As explained, this is a part-time role working hours a week, which will be office-based at Diss and paying circa £35,000 - £38,000 FTE (pro rata for part-time - circa £22,000 actual salary). Their holiday entitlement for full-time will be 28 days, including bank holidays, giving you 17 days pro rata holiday, a pension scheme of 4% employee and 5% employer, and membership to their health care scheme. They also offer free on-site car parking.