Finance Officer

3 months ago

Truro, United Kingdom St Petrocs Full time

**Description**:
**As a Finance Officer, you will be part of a small team providing accurate and timely financial management, delivering essential accountability to our funders and ensuring that every penny St Petrocs receives achieves the maximum positive outcome for people accessing our services.**

Your duties will largely be systems-based (primarily the Xero accounts package), and on a day-to-day basis will involve payments and receipts processing, bank reconciliations, processing invoices, and other general administrative tasks. You will be part of the team delivering regular management accounts for the leadership team and the board of trustees, as well as producing statutory year-end accounts.

**_Please note: _**

Many of our staff work flexibly. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

**What you'll be doing.**:

- Ensure all income is recorded at the time of receipt and is appropriately entered in the organisation’s financial records.
- Ensure all expenses are recorded appropriately in the organisation’s financial records.
- Ensure all income due is invoiced and received.
- Ensure all bank accounts are reconciled on a weekly basis.
- Ensure suppliers and other entities are paid on time using electronic payment methods.
- Investigate and query unusual levels of expenditure.
- Ensure expenditure is within individual staff authorisation limits.
- Ensure all control accounts are reconciled and assets and liabilities are correctly recorded.
- Ensure financial procedures are recorded, kept up to date, and make best use of the technologies available.
- Assist in the preparation of regular management accounts and the production of statutory year-end accounts.
- Monitor and respond to enquiries coming into the team inbox.
- Together with the rest of the Finance Team, raise awareness of cost savings and revenue maximisation.
- Work in other areas of the service as required.
- Attend events as a positive ambassador for St Petrocs, promoting and raising awareness of its services and inspiring existing and potential supporters.
- Carry out any other duties as reasonably requested.

**Who we're looking for.**:
**You’ll share our core values: Honesty, Integrity, Equality & Dignity**You'll have excellent attention to detail, be able to work independently, and have a thorough understanding of key financial processes. With great organisational skills, you'll be able to manage multiple tasks and respond to changing priorities with confidence.

Importantly, we’re looking for someone who passionately believes in our mission of ending homelessness. Homelessness is not an inevitability. It can be solved, and it can be prevented.

**Essential Criteria**
- Commitment to our services and the people we serve
- Excellent IT skills, including word processing, spreadsheets,
- Excellent written and oral communication skills to communicate effectively with suppliers and colleagues
- Excellent time management skills
- Able to follow processes and maintain high standards
- Comfortable working independently
- Ability to work well under pressure and adapt to changing priorities
- Energetic, creative and driven, with a proactive and positive approach

**What it's like working with us.**:
We know that our staff are at their best when they feel supported, happy, and healthy - at work and at home. To that end, we’re pleased to offer the following employee benefits:
**Family**
- 33 days annual leave a year, including bank holidays
- Enhanced maternity, partner, shared parental, and adoption pay
- Paid time off for neonatal care
- Paid time off for IVF treatment

**Financial**
- Competitive pension scheme
- Long-service awards
- Non-contributory life insurance (up to 3 x basic salary)
- Paid professional subscriptions (where relevant to role)

**Wellbeing**
- Enhanced sick pay scheme
- Employee assistance programme (EAP) including access to counselling services
- Free eye tests and free vaccinations

**About St Petrocs**:
**We're working to end homelessness in Cornwall, because every person has a right to a safe and secure home.**

St Petrocs was established in 1986 as a direct response to people experiencing homelessness in Truro. Over the years, our services have grown - shaped by the needs of the people we support.

Today, over 60 staff work together tirelessly to ensure we can provide the best quality of service possible to those people who find themselves vulnerably housed or pushed into homelessness.

We are an independent, charitable organisation that provides people in need with somewhere and someone to turn to.

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