Finance Assistant

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**Job Title** Finance Assistant

**Salary** £23,500

**Reports to** Finance Manager

**Duration** Permanent

**Place of work** Units 1G/H Guildford Road Industrial Estate, Hayle, TR27 4QZ

**Working hours** 37 hours per week, 9am-5pm Monday-Thursday. 9am to 4.30pm Fridays. There is also the option of an 8.30am start.

**Benefits**
- Working as a member of a great, dynamic and focused team, within an Investor in People Gold Standard Organisation
- Training & Development opportunities
- Generous annual leave allowance of 31 days in the first year and increasing year on year increasing to a maximum of 43 days
- Great facilities and free parking at our office
- A day off on your birthday
- A great work life balance culture.

We are a friendly and supportive team of people with diverse backgrounds, highly motivated to drive change and improve the lives of disabled people, their carers and families. We take a flexible approach to supporting each member of our team to reach their full potential.

**Main responsibilities**
- Responsible for the day-to-day financial transactions of the Charity.
- Payment of invoices, staff expenses, individual grants, ad hoc payments etc, in a timely manner.
- Processing expenditure on Xero, ensuring all details are correct and the relevant adequate documentation has been recorded.
- Enter and maintain supplier payment details onto the banking system.
- Load payments onto the online banking system to be authorised by a second user and vice versa.
- Reconcile bank transactions in Xero and entering staff expenses claim forms, invoices and receipts, individual grants etc to Xero and file appropriately, working with the Finance Manager.
- Allocate income & expenditure appropriately. Liaising with the Finance Manager when, funding streams change.
- Maintain and develop excellent payment systems to cater for the needs of the Charity, particularly as we continue to grow and develop, systems will need to grow and develop accordingly.
- Monitoring shared mailboxes, ensuring all queries are dealt with in a timely manner.
- Investigate queries as they arise from external suppliers.
- Help staff with any queries they may have and assist staff to understand the needs of the finance department.
- Working to tight deadlines and managing own workload effectively.
- Ad hoc jobs as given by the Finance Manager or requests from others.

**Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience**

**Essential**
- Experience in a finance role.
- Knowledge of Excel.
- Working knowledge and understanding of GDPR.
- Excellent administrative and organisational skills, with high standards of computer literacy including key MS Office packages.
- Good technical, written and numeracy skills with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work on own initiative and without constant direct supervision, with a proactive approach.
- Ability to prioritise and work well under pressure in a busy environment.

**Desirable**
- AAT Level 2/3 or equivalent qualification.
- Previous experience of Xero.
- Experience of working in the charitable sector.

**Personal qualities**
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to liaise effectively and confidently at all levels internal and externally.
- Good communication skills and ability to work well in a team environment.
- Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion, and to demonstrate integrity at all times.
- Energetic, flexible, responsive and with a can-do approach, taking on any task that needs doing.
- Calm, reliable and resourceful with the ability to focus on tasks in a busy environment.
- Strong commitment to the charity’s purpose and values, and ability to put them into practice.

**About Us**

disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly is a disabled people’s user led organisation, a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. Our mission is to **represent, include, support **and **empower **(RISE) people living with a long-term health condition or disability, their families and carers in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We do this via an extensive range of services and activities and by working at a strategic level to ensure the voices of disabled people are heard.

**Values**

Our values represent what is important to us as an independent, user-led organisation. They guide our actions and behaviors as we work together towards our vision of ‘A fully inclusive society, with equity of opportunity for all’:

- Our passion for equity - inspiring each other and demonstrating fairness, commitment and accountability.
- Respect for self and others - being open minded, reliable and approachable, acting with integrity in everything we do.
- Being supportive - having an inclusive, positive, and empathic approach to supporting others and ourselves.

We have a diverse workforce, and we are always striving to enhance our diversity, we welcome applicants of all identities including disability, gend