Finance Administrator Nottingham, England
Imara
Full Time
Nottingham, England
23000 - 25000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
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Finance Administrator
Salary: £23,000-25,000 dependent upon experience and skill levels.
Hours: 37.5
Holidays: 25 days (pro-rata) plus 8 statutory holidays per annum
Location: The post will be hybrid working from home and at IMARA in Nottingham City Centre.
Responsible to: Business Support Lead
Closing Date: 12:00 midday February 27 2023
An opportunity to join a growing independent charity, working locally to support children, young people and safe family members who have been affected by child sexual abuse. You will work as part of the business support team undertaking financially orientated tasks. You’ll be positive, hard-working, and really want to make this role your own.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds and individuals with lived experience each bring important and positive contributions and can improve the way we deliver services.
At IMARA, we are passionate about improving the lives of children, young people and their safe family carers, empowering them to recover from the traumatic experiences they have survived, believing that they deserve to be recognised, valued and properly supported.
IMARA is a fast-paced workplace, where you will be given plenty of opportunity to put your ideas into practice and positively change the lives of families and children. You will be joining the charity at an exciting time as we embark on a new phase of development - growing commissioned services, including a new training programme and mentoring scheme for teenagers and young adults.
There is scope to structure the hours of the role flexibly (within reason) and Imara is currently trialling working a 9 day fortnight.
Overview of the role
You will be responsible for the efficient running of IMARA’s general finances, including day to day office requirements.
The role is to carry out book-keeping and accountancy tasks such as:
- Making journal entries for all receipts, payments, and other financial transactions, ensuring they are classed against the correct project budget.
- Performing monthly bank reconciliations.
- Preparing cash flow statements.
- Meeting weekly with CEO to review finances and manage upcoming tasks and activities.
- Carrying out credit control for organisation,
- Carrying out purchase ledger procedures for the organisation,
- Performing payroll duties such as updating CA Plus with staffing/salary changes
- Liaising with line managers and staff members with regards to payroll and finance induction for new starters and P45 and untaken leave payments for leavers.
- Contributing to the creation, review and update of policies and procedures, ensuring robust financial processes, and security of the organisation, considering risks and wider economic context (e.g. reserves & expenses policies).
- Preparing year end accounts, including profit and loss, balance sheet, bank statements, agreements for major funding and donations, major purchases or building works, list of creditors and debtors, and loan/lease agreements.
- Working with the board of trustees (in particular the Treasurer and within the bi-monthly Finance Working Group) to provide the board with financial updates and forecasts.
- Working alongside other IMARA staff to seek funding opportunities, applying for grants and other sources of funding.
Key skills:
The successful candidate will be committed to the IMARA’s values, objectives and beneficiaries.
Other essential skills and qualities include:
- Ability to communicate financial issues and information in a clear and concise way for different audiences (board of trustees, staff, external partners)
- Proficient in using financial accounting systems/packages.
- Experience creating and maintaining budgets.
- Confident handling data to present to non-financial colleagues and inform decisions
Essential:
- Financial qualification and financial accounting experience (minimum Level 3 AAT or equivalent work experience)
- Experience working closely with others within a multi-disciplinary team, carrying out a range of financial duties
Desirable:
- Previous experience of an accounting role in the not-for-profit/charity sector.
How to apply
To apply, please send a CV with a covering letter to show how you meet the criteria set out in the person specification.
Please note that short listing will focus primarily on your accompanying letter and we will expect to find evidence that you have looked carefully at our website.
Imara
www.imaratx.com
Boston, United States
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1 to 50 Employees
Company - Public
