Payroll and Finance Assistant

Are you looking for a career in finance including payroll as well as knowing that you are giving something back to your local community by working in a wellestablished charity working with young people You will be part of a small team providing day to day financial support to the whole of the charity.

Your role will be to support the Finance Manager by managing the charitys monthly payroll (c80100 employees) and supporting the full range of financial processes and reporting including liaising with suppliers to ensure timely payments. You will support managers in reporting on charity grant funded projects. You will have a good attention to detail be able to work well in a team and be able to learn new skills

Tasks

• Payroll
• Finance
• Ability to raise orders process payments and run recording reports
• Supporting the reporting of month end journals
• Credit control including liaising with suppliers and grant funders to get achieve timely payments
• Handling and managing petty cash systems and reporting
• Preparing and checking employee expense claims ready for authorisation
• Support reporting of financial information to budget holders the CEO and the Board of Trustees

Requirements

• Experience of payroll systems (QuickBooks Online payroll experience would be desirable)
• AAT qualified or studying towards qualification (desirable)
• High level of computer literacy and proficient in the suite of Microsoft365 Excel Word and Outlook
• Strong attention to detail
• Good communicator
• Ability to use financial systems to raise orders process payments
• Demonstrates excellent approach to customer service both written and oral.
• Ability to work effectively without close supervision

Benefits

Why us

Our staff care passionately about supporting children and young people. We see the potential in our staff and support everyone through training to ensure they have the skills they need to help children and young people achieve.

91% of staff say we are living our charitys values and behaviours.
Generous annual leave (minimum of 32 days holiday a year increasing with
length of service)
Additional time off at Christmas
Fair rates of pay (starting salaries aligned to Living Wage Foundation)
Company pension scheme
Health care scheme
Options for flexible working
Annual staff away day
Annual whole staff team building day
Comprehensive and ongoing training
Investors in People accreditation
Christmas Party and other socials

Preemployment Checks

Employment with Youth Options will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS); check receipt of two satisfactory references and proof of eligibility to work in the UK