Bookkeeper - Part Time

Bookkeeper | Colchester/hybrid | £26k-£28k pro rata (DOE) | Part time role (2.5 days a week)

**Join our team**
- Do you want to work with purpose and have an impact?
- Do you want a career that is fascinating and ever-changing?
- Do you want to be surrounded by colleagues that will help build your self confidence and love of life?
- Do you want to work for a company that gives a sh*t?

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If the answer to the above is yes: Footprint Digital is the place for you.

**What we are looking for**

If you're passionate about balancing the books with precision and looking for a role where you can help achieve things they never thought possible, then this role is for you.

**Together we can make it happen**

Our team is made up of high achievers; industry leaders; first class undergraduate degrees; masters degree distinctions; and those with 10 years+ industry experience.

We are industry thought leaders, TED talkers, Department for International Trade advisors, academic lecturers, authors, coaches, charity trustees, and broadcasters - and we'd like to support you on your own journey to achieve great things

**The role**

We are looking for someone to join our team and own the bookkeeping in Footprint Digital. We are bringing this role in house for the first time, and we're looking for someone to embed themselves and their expertise into the way we work, helping us grow beyond our wildest dreams.

**Think this could be you?**

**Essential skills**:

- AAT qualified
- Proficient in using accounting software, particularly Xero and similar tools, for efficient and accurate financial data management and accounting tasks
- Strong collaboration skills to ensure accurate financial reporting
- The ability to analyse financial data and extract insights
- Commitment to maintaining confidentiality and ensuring secure handling of all financial information in compliance with data protection regulations
- Must share our values

**What your day might look like**
- Maintaining financial records, including purchases, sales, receipts, and payments
- Working on Xero and similar software for accounting tasks
- Analysing financial trends, variations, and forecasts and collaborating closely with management to provide accurate financial reports
- Assisting in budgeting and financial planning
- Accounts receivable (and credit control), following up on invoices that the sales team send to clients and following existing processes to get these paid
- Conducting payroll using Xero
- End-of-year reporting, assisting with annual profit and loss and balance sheet reports
- Ensuring confidentiality and secure handling of all financial information
- Continue your own professional development and regular company wide training sessions to inspire you to do the best work of your career

**Our commitment to you**
- Throughout your time with us, we will support you to:

- Never stop learning
- Work in a collaborative environment with a strong support network
- Have the freedom to do the best work of your career
- Develop leadership skills
- Grow personally and professionally

**What we offer**
- Learn from the best: Whether it’s from our internal team of experts in our weekly Bitesize sessions or well versed industry gurus at our “Footprint Digital Presents ” events, we strive to continuously provide great learning opportunities that help you do the best work of your career.
- Apprentice Challenges: 4 times a year we form teams in an intense battle to become the winner of the Footprint Digital Apprentice Challenge. It can be anything from business strategy pitches, foraging in the woods to bake off challenges, your competitive streak is welcomed and encouraged.
- We give a sh*t: We listen and put feedback into practice and each year we get bigger and better as a result. Our policy is to be open, honest and fair in everything that we do.
- Be educators: We provide you with the opportunities to teach others about the topic you know oh so well. Thus far this includes our team giving TED Talks, presenting at the Universities of Essex and Greenwich, speaking at the Department of International Trade, Brighton SEO the list goes on
- 1% for the planet and BCorporation: Be part of a company that commits to people and planet Each year we put 1% of our annual sales to Building Malawi, a charitable organisation close to our hearts.

**Who we are**

At Footprint Digital we humanise and demystify digital marketing for ambitious businesses, exceeding their expectations, because there are no limits to what they can achieve online. We set up Footprint Digital because we didn’t want to ‘keep clients quiet’. We wanted to do good work and to be the best we could be; to be proud of what we do and push ourselves to grow.

**How to Apply**
- Your strengths
- Your interests (what you like to do outside of work)
- The exceptional things you have achieved in your life so far and things you would like to achieve in the future (in work or your personal life).

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