Website Street Child
Finance Officer
Description
Job Title: Finance Officer
Must have: Full right to work in the UK (if you don’t have this we unfortunately won’t be able to consider you for this role but we encourage you to look at our other global opportunities on our careers page)
Reporting to: HQ Finance Manager
Hours: 37.5 per week
Principal Location: London, hybrid with a minimum of 3 days in the office per week.
Background:
Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 250,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.
Part 1: Role Purpose:
This role assists with the smooth and efficient operation of the charity’s finances.
Part 2: Key Responsibilities:
1) (30%) Accounts Receivable
Working with the finance assistant, ensure that all income is correctly and accurately recorded in the finance system and CRM (which is under development).
Supporting with work on accounts receivable including accessing, downloading and saving in a systematic manner reports from donor portals, bank account and other sources.
Analysing and coding income reports in Excel and uploading it to the Finance system on a timely basis, at least weekly.
Working closely with colleagues in Fundraising to ensure prompt collection of outstanding balances from customers, and sending out monthly debtor balance statements.
Raising donor invoices and requests for payments, and issuing donor receipts.
Income and customer account reconciliations.
Work closely with the Fundraising team to ensure correct coding of income.
Any other responsibilities relating to Accounts Receivable.
2) (30%) Own and oversee end to end Accounts Payable process
Ensure that all invoices are paid on time, in an efficient manner and that the finance system reflects the transactions within the correct accounting period and correctly coded in the system – including account code, cost centre, project code and donor code.
Determine most efficient payment platform to process international payments, and ensure that recorded in the finance system at the correct conversion rate.
Be a point of contact with the Foreign exchange agents to quickly resolve any questions.
Work with the Finance Assistant to ensure accurate and timely recording all approved supplier invoices, requisitions, staff expenses and other expenditure in the accounting system and that all supporting documentation for all transactions are uploaded into the finance system.
Managing at least two payment runs a week and additional runs as required; ensuring that all invoices for payment are correctly approved by the budget holder, setting up payments on online banking platforms and sending out requests for payment approvals to payment authorisers and verifying that all payments are fully approved in the banking platforms by the deadline set.
Once the payment is made, allocating the payment against the invoices in the Finance system.
Reviewing staff expense claims to ensure that all supporting documentation is provided before payment.
Managing monthly staff credit card reconciliations and ensure that these are returned on time with all receipts and invoices and checking and reviewing classifications, with follow up as required.
Carry out monthly Creditor account reconciliations ensuring that all balances are valid and backed up with appropriate supporting documentation.
Any other responsibilities relating to Accounts Payable.
3) (40%) Month end reporting and reconciliation
Complete all balance sheet reconciliations, including bank and petty cash reconciliations and submit for approval by HQ Finance Manager.
Once CRM system is in place, undertake reconciliation processes between finance data and CRM data.
Carry out monthly revaluations of bank accounts.
Ensuring supporting information for transactions is correctly stored in electronic format on Teams such as bank statements, remittance advices, credit statements.
Assist in preparation of internal reports, including working with Operations Department and Finance department to review their monthly reports.
Compile information for Gift Aid returns.
General support and assistance to the team including administrative duties and managing the office post.
Other ad hoc support to the wider operations team as may be required.
Audit: support with the year end audit and provision of supporting information to auditors.
Part 3: Person Specification
Attributes / Essential / Desirable
Education / Qualifications:
5 GCSE at Grade C or above including English and Maths.
Post-GCSE qualification such as A-Level or T-level or equivalent.
Degree.
A Good understanding of double entry bookkeeping.
Qualified AAT.
Accountancy qualification, either fully or partly qualified.
Experience and Knowledge.
IT Literate with strong Excel skills.
Familiar with using Teams.
Experience of working in a similar role.
Experience of using a CRM would be an advantage.
Charity or third sector experience.
Skills and Abilities
Attention to detail.
Highly organised and self-motivated.
Flexible and able to manage multiple tasks at one time.
Good written, verbal and presentation skills.
Shows initiative in identifying problems and posing solutions.
Persistence and tenacity.
Other
Pro-active communication style including keeping team-members informed and updated as necessary.
Not afraid to ask for help!
Work co-operatively and collaboratively with colleagues, other departments and other external contacts.
Strong communicator and able to explain work to other team members.
Good Interpersonal skills.
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