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Finance Officer

3 months ago


Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom Born Free Foundation Full time

Finance Officer

Location:
Flexible remote with regular presence at our office in Horsham, West Sussex


Salary of up to £28,000

Full-time 35 hours per week, with opportunity for flexible working

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Are you passionate about wild animals with significant experience of maintaining robust financial processes?

Do you want to join a world-class team of experts fighting to protect wildlife and biodiversity?


You will have a demonstrable track record of working in a busy and varied financial processing role, continually looking to identify and implement efficiencies while building effective working relationships with colleagues across the charity.


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About the Charity

  • Born Free works tirelessly to ensure that all wild animals, whether living in captivity or in the wild, are treated with compassion and respect and are able to live their lives according to their needs. As a leading wildlife charity, we oppose the exploitation of wild animals in captivity and campaign to keep them where they belong in the wild. _
  • We promote Compassionate Conservation to enhance the survival of wildlife, especially threatened species in the wild, and to protect natural habitats while respecting the needs and safeguarding the welfare of individual animals. We seek to have a positive impact on animals in the wild and protect their ecosystems in perpetuity, for their own intrinsic value and for the critical roles they play within the natural world. _
  • Set up initially as Zoo Check in 1984 by Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna and their son Will Travers, Born Free has worked tirelessly for nearly 40 years to prevent captive animal suffering and phaseout zoos. Will continues to lead the organisation as Executive President, and Virginia remains active on the Board of Trustees, working closely with the team to share our vision and programmes on public forums. _

The Opportunity


We are recruiting an experienced and motivated Finance Officer with a proven track record of delivering to deadlines in a busy and dynamic environment.

This is a varied role that will process transactions, perform reconciliations and help ensure that financial controls and policies are followed across the charity.

The role reports to the Financial Controller.
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The Role
"can do" attitude, an eye for accuracy, a methodical approach to their work and excellent customer service skills.

Key tasks will include:

  • Processing invoices and staff expense claims, ensuring they are correctly coded and that VAT is treated appropriately;
  • Processing of income received through the bank, ensuring it is correctly reflected in the customer relationship management (CRM) system and the accounting system;
  • Preparing UK and international payment files and loading them onto banking platforms, ready for approval;
  • Ensuring proper documentation is obtained and filed appropriately to support the audit trails for all transactions, including charity credit cards;
Finance Officer November 202- Ensuring payments and expense claims are appropriately authorised in line with the charity's policies;

  • Preparing control account reconciliations and bank account reconciliations;
  • Developing a thorough understanding of the charity's processes and suggesting improvements to ensure they are efficient and compliant; and
  • Dealing with queries from external suppliers, payment providers and internal colleagues.
  • The ability to plan, prioritise and deliver to tight time frames in a small, fastpaced and dynamic team;
  • An excellent understanding of basic accounting and bookkeeping (debits, credits, principles of reconciliations);
  • Selfmotivated with the ability to work independently on a remote basis (with regular presence at our Horsham office);
  • A basic understanding of VAT principles;
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to explain financial process and their rationale to people from a non
- financial background;

  • A good level of Excel skills, including an appreciation of how IT can be used to reduce manual intervention and improve processing speeds;
  • Excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach to work;
  • Experience of using accounting packages, ideally Sage 50;
  • Quick to understand multiple systems and data flows;
  • An empathy with the work of the Foundation, and the desire to drive it forward, bringing energy and determination to its mission; and
  • Decisive and straightforward; low ego and a team player; high levels of drive and energy; a sense of humour; honesty, integrity and reliability.

role has no direct reports.


Our excellent benefits package includes a generous annual leave entitlement, working from home with regular online meetings, a healthy work-life balance, wellbeing support, and the opportunity for flexible working patterns.


December 2023.
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