Accounts Assistant

St Elizabeth's College; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job description

Accounts Assistant

£25,802 - £27,484 per annum

Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

Much Hadham, Hertfordshire

Are you ready to start a new challenge in the world of Finance?

Have you started or are interested in an AAT qualification and want to put that theory into practice?

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Assistant to join our Finance team. In this role, you'll be responsible for processing all bank and cash transactions alongside supporting accounts payable and receivable to ensure a high quality financial service to internal and external stakeholders of St Elizabeth's. This role offers the opportunity to study towards a fully funded AAT qualification whilst being responsible for cashier, sales ledger and purchase ledger activities including:

• processing weekly and monthly bank and credit card statements;
• issuing and posting of invoices for fees;
• processing of petty cash records; confirming and chasing up purchase ledger orders and prepare bi monthly ledger payments;
• ensuring all processes adhere to financial regulations and St Elizabeth's procedures.

About you

We're a friendly, supportive and busy Finance team and are keen to hear from motivated individuals who have started or are interested in pursuing an AAT (or equivalent) qualification. This is an excellent opportunity to use your strong communication and attention to detail skills to contribute to the success of the team. Demonstrating professional curiosity, you will need to keep up to date with legislation and industry changes, ensuring processes are undertaken in an accurate, timely and efficient manner.

Why work for us

Based across 60 acres of beautiful countryside, St Elizabeth's is a charity supporting children, young people and adult day clients with epilepsy and other complex medical conditions. Over the past 120 years, St Elizabeth's has grown and developed to comprise a non-maintained special School for both boarders and day students, a specialist Further Education College, domiciliary care for College learners, Supported Living in the community, a comprehensive Day Opportunities programme for adult day clients and 24-hour health provision provided by specialist nurses and therapists.

In addition to excellent staff training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment:

• 23 days' annual leave per annum
• Flexi-scheme - ability to flex your start and finish time!
• Eligible for Blue Light card - discounts on big brands
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee recognition scheme
• Life assurance
• Free on-site parking
• Recommend a friend payment up to £500!*
• Confidential employee assistance programme
• Fully paid for DBS
• Contributory pension scheme - eligible employees are automatically enrolled after 3 months at 5% (3% employer contribution)

Terms and conditions apply.

How to apply

Please complete an application form and upload an up to date CV on our website. All offers are conditional and subject to receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check. Please note we are not on a public transport route. The salary range advertised is based on full-time equivalent and appointment on the scale is dependent on the role, qualifications and experience.

Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis; therefore, we recommend that you apply sooner rather than later. We reserve the right to close an advert if we receive sufficient applications ahead of the deadline. If you require reasonable adjustments at application or interview stage, please do let us know as soon as possible.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

At St Elizabeth's we embrace diversity and aspire to create a diverse and inclusive working culture. We are proud to be recognised as an Investor in People and to hold Disability Confident status. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming all applications from across the community.

Safeguarding

St Elizabeth's Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service. Some of our positions involve regulated activity relevant to vulnerable children, adults and young people. It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group. Our vacancies are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Registered Charity 1176777