Finance Officer - Temporary to Permanent Opportunity
£14.00–£14.50 per hour, depending on experience
ASAP – ideally immediately available or able to start within one week
About the Opportunity
Môrwell Talent Solutions is delighted to be supporting an amazing not-for-profit organisation in the recruitment of a Finance Officer to join its busy finance team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an organisation that makes a real difference, providing essential support to its wider services and helping ensure its finances are managed accurately, efficiently and effectively. Working closely with the Senior Finance Officer and wider finance team, you will play an important role in the day-to-day running of the finance function, supporting everything from purchase and sales ledger activities to bank reconciliations, financial reporting and general finance administration.
The position is initially offered on a temporary basis, with the potential to become permanent for the right person. The organisation also offers a hybrid working arrangement, with three days in the office and two days working from home, providing a good balance of team collaboration and flexibility.
Due to the urgency of the requirement, the organisation is looking for someone who can start as soon as possible. Immediate availability would be ideal, although candidates available to start within a week will also be considered.
The Role
As Finance Officer, your responsibilities will include:
- Processing purchase invoices and staff expenses, ensuring transactions are accurately coded, authorised and recorded.
- Maintaining the purchase ledger, processing supplier payments and completing supplier statement reconciliations.
- Raising sales invoices, allocating receipts, reconciling sales ledger balances and chasing outstanding debts.
- Preparing and processing BACS payment runs for suppliers and staff expenses.
- Posting bank receipts, payments and cash transactions, ensuring financial records are accurate and up to date.
- Completing regular bank and petty cash reconciliations.
- Recording and monitoring debit and credit card transactions, maintaining accurate balances and supporting the administration of the card system.
- Assisting with the preparation of management accounts, budgets, tenders, grant applications and year-end accounts.
- Supporting financial monitoring activities, investigating discrepancies and helping ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures.
- Producing reports, maintaining spreadsheets and providing general finance and administrative support to the wider team.
- Liaising with colleagues, suppliers and customers to resolve queries and ensure transactions are processed efficiently.
- Handling confidential financial and personal information appropriately and in line with GDPR requirements.
About You
We’re looking for an organised, proactive and detail-focused finance professional who enjoys working as part of a busy team and can hit the ground running.
You will ideally have:
- AAT qualification/studier
- Previous experience working within a busy finance department.
- Experience using a finance system such as Sage.
- Strong purchase ledger and sales ledger knowledge, including credit control and debtor management.
- Experience processing financial information from source documents and importing data into a finance system.
- An understanding of ledger accounts, control accounts and bank reconciliations.
- Good Excel and Microsoft 365 skills.
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
- A methodical and analytical approach, with good problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills and the confidence to liaise with colleagues and external contacts.
- A flexible, team-focused approach and a commitment to maintaining accurate records and following financial procedures.
- The ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
What's on Offer?
- The opportunity to work for a fantastic not-for-profit organisation.
- Hybrid working, with two days from home and three days in the office.
- A competitive hourly rate of £14.00–£14.50, depending on experience.
- A 37.5-hour working week.
- The potential for the position to become permanent.
- The opportunity to join a supportive finance team and contribute to an organisation making a positive difference.
Interested?
If you have a solid grounding in finance, enjoy working in a varied role and are available to start immediately or within the next week, we’d love to hear from you.
Please get in touch with Môrwell Talent Solutions to find out more and discuss the opportunity in confidence.