Purchase Ledger Officer

**Finance Officer**

27.5 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Salary Range: FTE £26,834 - £27,736 per annum

**Actual Salary £18,449 -£19,068** per annum
- (Starting salary dependent upon qualifications, skills and experience)_

We are looking for a Finance officer to work as part of our Corporate Finance Team at Ruskin Mill Trust to support the financial processes including purchase ledger and monthly reconciliations of entities within Ruskin Mill Trust, which might include Colleges, School, subsidiary companies or the wider Trust.

The successful applicant will be expected to embrace, articulate and work with the Trust’s objectives, vision, values, purpose and method, ensuring that the Trust’s paradigm of biodynamic agriculture, Anthroposophical medicine and practical skills education, which is informed by Steiner Education, is maintained, implemented and integrated within the provisions of the Trust.

**Duties include**:

- To process, pay and file invoices relating to Trust, Social Enterprise, Schools and Colleges using Access Financials and keep up to date creditors.
- To run BACS and ensure suppliers are paid on time.
- Plan and organise work to ensure month end and year end close procedures are adhered to.
- Reconcile supplier statements and deal with queries from various staff members and suppliers.
- To undertake general administrative duties.

**What we are looking for someone who is/has**:

- Experience of working in a Purchase Ledger or Finance Officer role
- Experience of managing a diverse workload and meeting strict deadlines
- Ideally completed AAT or equivalent but this is only desirable

For a full list of responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description for this role.

**Established in 1984, Ruskin Mill Trust is an educational charity that operates in England, Scotland and Wales. We offer exciting outdoor learning environments, utilising practical land and craft activities to support the development of work and life skills in young people with autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences. Our research-led method,**_**Practical Skills Therapeutic Education,**_ **is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris. Working with hand, head, heart and place, Ruskin Mill Trust helps individuals to re-imagine their potential.**

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash.

In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and also opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.
- The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK._

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

Pay: £26,834.00-£27,736.00 per year

Expected hours: 27.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking

Work Location: In person