About The Role
What if you could build your finance career at one of the UK's leading charities while gaining professional qualifications and hands-on experience? Imagine being part of a team that keeps our cash flow and income processes running smoothly, enabling us to deliver life-changing support to people affected by dementia?
About the opportunity
As Accounts Assistant focusing on Treasury and Accounts Receivables, you'll play an important role in delivering a high-performing, efficient financial transactions operation with partnership and improvement at its core. This is both an operational and developmental role, offered with the possibility of pursuing a formal qualification such as a financial accounting apprenticeship or another appropriate finance or administration-related qualification.
You'll be part of our Finance & Assurance directorate, reporting to the Financial Transaction Team Officers and working alongside other assistants and trainees. Focusing specifically on Treasury and AR activities, you'll gain broad experience across cash management, income processing, and receivables. From recording and processing financial transactions to supporting month-end and year-end processes, you'll monitor daily communications and role-model brilliant partnership and customer service, support reconciliations and audits, and work in an agile way across multiple projects and workstreams.
This is a role where your success is built on strong collaboration across multiple teams. You'll have opportunities to undertake specific improvement projects, identify ways to enhance processes, and support colleagues across the organisation to operate within best practice when it comes to financial transactions.
About you:
You're someone with a willingness to learn and develop on the job, sharing your learnings with colleagues to foster whole-team development. You have a working interest in quality improvement and an enthusiasm for a career in finance with ideas to help us constantly improve. You have experience with problem-solving, preferably in a financial environment, and you're willing to proactively reach across to colleagues in different teams.
You'll have:
1. Willingness to learn and develop on the job (including undertaking specialist training), sharing those learnings with colleagues.
2. Working interest in quality improvement in processes, analysis, communications, or customer service, and experience supporting it.
3. Enthusiasm for a career in finance and ideas to help us constantly improve.
4. Experience of problem-solving, preferably in a financial environment, and willingness to proactively reach across to colleagues in different teams.
5. Good grasp of data and how it can be analysed and presented to improve understanding, engagement, and performance.
6. Experience of developing basic financial reports and performing simple bank reconciliations.
What you’ll focus on:
7. Supporting the effective running and performance of the Financial Transactions team, with a specific focus on Treasury and Accounts Receivables activities.
8. Undertaking specific projects to demonstrate or drive improvements across Treasury and AR processes.
9. Monitoring and responding to daily communications from colleagues and role-modelling brilliant partnership and customer service.
10. Recording, processing, and filing financial transactions in line with internal procedures, including completing reconciliations.
11. Assisting in month-end and year-end closing processes, including preparing for and supporting audits.
12. Identifying ways to improve processes and making recommendations to senior colleagues.
13. Supporting colleagues across the organisation to operate within best practice for financial transactions.
14. Role-modelling working in ways that always adhere to internal policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
15. Liaising with suppliers and other third parties where appropriate.
16. Supporting officers and managers with reconciliations, reports, and analysis related to cash management and receivables.
Could your enthusiasm for finance and quality improvement help strengthen our Treasury and Accounts Receivables operations? Are you ready to develop your skills while gaining qualifications in an environment where learning and collaboration are valued? If you're looking for a role where development meets meaningful purpose, we'd love to hear from you.
Important Dates
17. The deadline for applications is Sunday 22nd March 2026
18. Interviews will take place across 31st March, 1st and 2nd April.
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