Bookkeeper - Part Time

**Job title**: Bookkeeper

**Location**: Worthing, West Sussex

**Salary range**: £21,255 - £24,00 per annum, pro rata

**Hours**: Part
- time: 15 hours per week, flexibility with days Mon-Fri

**about asphaleia**

asphaleia started with four staff all sharing a passion for meeting the needs of children and young people and a willingness to take a risk

From those beginnings, asphaleia now comprises a limited company and a registered international charity. These operate as four ventures. We use the word venture because it carries the sense of adventure that has led us on our unique and fascinating journey. The three different ventures sitting within the company are; care, fostering and training. asphaleia action, our charity has been pioneering new projects to meet ever increasing needs of young people both in the UK and internationally for almost 20 years.

**our mission**

The asphaleia mission is simple - **to impact as many lives of children and young people who have experienced disadvantage as we can**. We believe it is a simple, but very powerful mission that drives forward every aspect of our delivery and ensures we place children and young people at the heart of everything we do.

**our values**

Our values are summed up by three simple principles and these, when in action, create the asphaleia way of doing things.

When working with children and young people, other professionals or colleagues we believe service and co-operation can only begin to be achieved to a high standard by **considering the world of others**.

However, we believe it is not enough to solely believe the world of others matters - this is only a starting place. The asphaleia group believe in **demonstrating our value** of those we deliver services to, those who pay for our services and those we work with in every possible way.

Finally, we believe we should **aim to do everything well**. We realise excellence is a journey and not a finitely achievable thing. Therefore even when we have done something well we should then aim to do it even better

**what we can offer you**
- We are proud to be an Investor in People.
- We are committed to ongoing personal development for all staff.
- Joining a pension scheme.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- We have a social committee led by staff who organise socials for all asphaleia employees.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Sales & Purchase ledger processing
- Bank reconciliation
- Posting and raising invoices onto the accounting system
- Responding to and managing client queries
- Petty cash issuing and reconciliation
- Managing staff expenses
- Supporting on various administrative tasks as required
- Supporting auditing and accounting practices
- Other Ad-Hoc Duties

**Person Specification**

**Essential**
- Minimum 5 GCSEs or equivalent (Grade A-C) including Maths and English
- Bookkeeping
- Working knowledge with Sage, Office 365
- HMRC online experience
- Ability to work accurately and anlyse a range of financial information
- AAT Level 2 - minimum
- Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Excellent time management skills and ability to work to deadlines
- Exceptional communication and customer service skills

**Desirable**
- Previous finance administration experience desirable
- Experience of Sage Accounts 50
- AAT Level 3
- Use a variety of resources to present information, e.g. reports, tables, graphs for leadership, service users and other professionals

**Safeguarding**
- **The asphaleia Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.**_
- **Successful applicants are recruited according to safer recruitment practices and required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and other vetting checks.**_
- **Safeguarding responsibilities for this role are detailed in the job description and person specification.**_
- **asphaleia is an equal opportunities employer.**_
- **At asphaleia, we take your data privacy very seriously. We will keep your personal information for recruitment purposes only and we will not share it with anyone else. We would like to keep this data until our open role is filled. When that period is over, we will either delete your data or gain your consent for keeping it in our database for future roles.**_
- Request for an up to date CV including explanation of any gaps inbetween employment and education
- Application form
- Job Description and Person Specification which includes safeguarding responsibilities
- Employment monitoring form
- Organisaiton Child Protection policy and practices
- Organisation policy and practices on the employment of ex-offenders
- Relevant forms to be returned within 7 working days unless otherwise stated.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Contract

**Salary**: £21,255.00-£24,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location