Account Assistant Jobs in Stowe, Staffordshire

The Assistant Accountant role supports the Finance Transactions Manager leading the month end close process, posting journals, reconciling accounts, enhancing systems, processes and ad hoc project work, this role ensures we have timely, accurate financial information to support robust monthly reporting for both Trussell & associated entities. Utilising system knowledge, working with business systems across the organisation and reconciling back to the finance system to provide integrity to the accounts and enable comparative analysis across systems.

Finance Team Leader 

• Oversee the group purchase and sales ledger invoicing, bank receipts, credits and refunds. 
• Support and be involved the development of our finance systems. 
• Take responsibility for key suppliers and customer accounts ensuring invoices are raised and accounts are reconciled regularly. 
• Responsible for processing of regular payment runs. 
• Ensure non-purchase ledger payments are posted and coded correctly. 
• Oversee sales ledger journals/income accruals and month end reconciliations. 
• Daily/weekly posting of treasury transactions daily and ensure bank reconciliations are undertaken regularly. 
• Review and manage the allocation processes for both sales and purchase ledger ensuring payments and receipts have been allocated correctly and action and resolve account discrepancies. 
• Review and manage the credit control process. 
• Manage debtors with support from the Finance Business Partners as required. 
• Assist and provide support in the audit process. 
• Develop and report on a suite of team KPIs which you will monitor regularly and support the team to ensure they are met. 
• Work with colleagues across the finance team to standardise processes and keep the finance manual up to date. 
• Support the Financial Controller in training internal stakeholders on our finance systems and processes. 
• Enforcing financial controls in accordance with our scheme of delegation. 
• Provide excellent customer service, manage, and maintain good relationships and strong links with the internal and external stakeholders. 
• Support the Financial Controller as required 
• Maintain effective financial controls within the sales and purchasing functions. 
• Manage, motivate and provide support to the finance assistants including holding daily/weekly catch -ups and 121 supervision meetings, and annual appraisals and staff development. 
• Manage, motivate, train and develop finance assistants. 
• Ensure staff and volunteers have the information and skills to deliver a quality service 
• providing support with other ad hoc financial tasks as required. 

• AAT qualified, working towards the qualification or qualified by experience (at least 3 years in a similar role or managing a finance function) 

• Experience in day to day running of a finance office. 
• Experience in accounts processing and reconciliations to TB level. 
• Experience of manging other staff, coaching & mentoring. 
• Good organisation skills & methodical with good time management skills, used to delivering to tight timetables. 
• Knowledge & understanding of internal controls & core accounting systems and processes. 
• Intermediate level in Excel spreadsheet skills. 
• Able to evidence effective use of own judgement, & ability to work proactively while unsupervised. 
• Able to build good working relationships at all levels within the charity. 

• Working knowledge of accounting systems in a multi company/cost centre environment. 
• Exposure to budget preparation & monitoring. 
• Experience of preparation of 
• Management accounts and annual accounts. 

Ivy Rock Partners are working with a fantastic housing association who are proudly support tens of thousands of people across England by providing affordable housing and care to help people live independently. 

We are recruiting a Head of Treasury on a full time permanent basis. You will be responsible for leading on all treasury activities for the Group, ensuring delivery of the Treasury strategy and compliance with all relevant policies and legislation. This role will be the expert on Treasury matters for the Group, and will be required to liaise with a number of external stakeholders.

About you 

You will be a qualified Accountant with extensive experience of working in a treasury team, with the ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You will have excellent knowledge of statutory and reporting requirements, along with the ability to present information clearly and concisely to a range of audiences. The role manages a small team, and you should have experience of developing, coaching and managing teams.

This Role:

• Reports to: Finance Director
• Has 2 direct reports - who's job titles are: Treasury and Security Manager
• Other peers alongside this role that report to the Finance Director are: Head of Financial Operations, Head of Financial Reporting, Head of Housing Finance, Assistant Director: Strategy, Planning and Partnering.

Role purpose:

• Leading on treasury activities/functions, ensuring delivery of the treasury strategy and compliance with the treasury policy and relevant financial procedures and regulations
• Providing an effective and efficient treasury service across the Group.
• Providing expertise on treasury matters to Board, Committees, Executive and Leadership Group
• Taking the lead role in the preparation of materials for funders, ratings agencies and other external stakeholders.
• Provide project management support to the Corporate Finance Directorate.

Role Context

• The Head of Treasury role involves planning, project management and the programming and co-ordination of all treasury activities across the group.
• The role will work closely with the Finance Director and Assistant Director: Strategy, Planning and Partnering to bring key Corporate Finance Projects to a successful conclusion.
• The role holder will provide the bridge between setting and delivery of treasury strategy for the Group.
• The role will be critical in always ensuring that sufficient funding exists to support the delivery of the approved corporate strategy and plan and underlying financial plan.
• The role will ensure whole organisational compliance with the necessary regulatory requirements, approved treasury management policies and Financial Golden Rules.
• Externally, the role will work with treasury consultants, credit rating agencies and funders to execute a treasury management strategy covering the Group’s borrowing and investment, ensuring compliance with covenants.  The role will also maintain a network with treasurers at other registered providers.
• Internally, the role will also work with finance, development, Executives, Committees and the Board to deliver sound treasury management.

• Hybrid Position
• Ideal for someone from an Audit and/or Social Impact Organisation

About Our Client

Arts Council England are the national development agency for creativity and culture in England. They champion creativity and culture across the country, develop talent in every corner of the nation, and support artists, practitioners and cultural organisations to work in partnership and to be world leading.

Arts Council believe creativity and culture not only inspire us, but they bring us together and teach us about ourselves and the world around us. In short, they make life better. From 2023 to 2026 Arts Council will invest over £467 million of public money from Government and an estimated £250 million from The National Lottery each year to help support the sector and to deliver their strategic vision.

Job Description

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) created the Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help cultural organisations and heritage sites during the COVID-19 pandemic. This Fund included a £254 million loans programme for arts, culture and heritage organisations. Arts Council acts as loan agent for the borrowers in the programme portfolio.

You will be responsible for all aspects of Arts Council's management of the CRF loans portfolio. You will be the principal contact with DCMS and will be required to meet with them regularly to report on a range of CRF loans portfolio issues and activities including formal portfolio reviews, loan re-profile recommendations, commissioning of external legal and financial advice, loans management process and systems.

The CRF Loans Director will have direct line management responsibility for the CRF loans team and your duties will include:

• Overseeing effective loans monitoring processes to identify where borrowers' business performance indicates a risk to loan repayment
• Reporting to DCMS on the performance of the loans' portfolio on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
• Making recommendations on appropriate action to take on defaulting or at-risk loans.
• Ensuring performance management, risk and internal controls are in place and used effectively.

The Successful Applicant

The successful CRF Loans Director will hold an ACA/CCAB/CIMA qualification (or equivalent) with experience of working at a senior level and exposure to working with loan lenders and borrowers.

You will have excellent financial analysis skills and be able to present complex financial information in simple understandable form to decision makers and others.

Ideally you will have a background within an audit and/or social impact organisation and have an understanding of shaping a loans fund.

Application Stage

As part of the application process, you will be required to provide:

A personal statement of no more than 1000 words attached to your CV that explains how your skills & experience meet the essential experience criteria as listed in the candidate pack.

A supporting CV outlining your job history & qualifications, (including how you meet the essential technical criteria for the role)

It will not be possible to provide feedback to applicants who are unsuccessful at the application stage. Feedback will be provided to those whose applications progress beyond the first shortlisting stage.

 

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Interview stage

Full details of the interview process will be made available to shortlisted candidates in the invite to interview.

Closing date is 11:55pm on 6th January 2025

Pre-screening interviews with Michael Page will take place w/c 13th and 20st January 2025

We expect first stage interviews to take place week commencing Monday 27th January 2025. All dates are indicative & subject to change. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

What's on Offer

A salary £70,000 - £80,000 dependent on relevant experience alongside an excellent benefits package including a final salary pension scheme.

Hybrid working is also available for this role which can be based in any Arts Council location nationally (outside of London).

Contact
Bradley Glen
Quote job ref
JN-122024-6616410Z

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.

About The Role
We are here for anyone affected by dementia to help them navigate some of the hardest and most frightening times of their lives.
We are advisors, supporters, fundraisers, researchers, influencers, communicators, technical specialist and so much more. We are volunteers, we are employees, and together we are here to make a difference to the lives of people living with dementia and their carers.
Strategic evidence are our in-house experts in dementia data, economics, care and clinical research evidence. If you are passionate about using evidence for good – this role is for you!
We are accountable and responsible for gathering, analysing, contributing and mobilising evidence and insight to strengthen the case for dementia across the UK - bringing this to bear to our people in Alzheimer’s Society and the dementia system locally and nationally.
We are evidence and data driven, factual and solution focused. Our strategic evidence base will ensure that the Society’s decisions and interpretation of dementia and the system is based on the highest quality of dementia evidence and will:

- Demonstrate the scale of dementia in the UK
- Demonstrate the impact of dementia on the system and those affected by the disease
- Underpin the response of Alzheimer’s Society and the wider system to the big challenges dementia poses

As Health Economics Lead, you will have a new and exciting opportunity to lead and develop how we use health economics evidence in the development and curation of our strategic evidence base. You will play a significant role in making dementia the priority it needs to be.
You will be a recognised expert in your field, providing leadership on complex assignments and projects, and providing technical guidance to others in resolving complex issues related to economic analysis.
You will work alongside a Dementia Data and Intelligence Lead and Strategic Evidence Manager. Together, you will provide expertise on evidence, data and insight in the context of dementia, ensuring that the Society’s decisions and interpretation of dementia and the system is based on the highest quality of dementia evidence.
Your role is also part of an even larger Evidence, Policy & Influencing (EP&I) function which is laser-focused on ending the devastation of dementia through changing policy. You will be an integral part of the part of EP&I Management Team. Integration and teamwork are everything in this role – with colleagues internally and with the system externally.
You will:

- Hold responsibility for providing leadership and in house expertise in health economic analysis and economic approaches, helping us to develop and curate our strategic evidence base
- Identify, synthesise and summarise complex health economics literature, using your critical thinking skills to accurately present findings in reports, varying formats appropriate to the anticipated audience, to facilitate evidence-based policy and to inform strategic decision making
- Be at the leading edge of health economics, ensuring specialist knowledge is kept up to date by being aware of developments in the field of health economics, attending training courses and participating in other knowledge sharing events or networks.
- Make our strategic evidence base everyone’s business – to our people, and key players in the dementia system.
- Inspire and motivate people towards shared objectives and goals, encouraging an environment where people can be themselves and safely share their opinion and be able to listen and support others.

About you
You are passionate about making a difference for people affected by dementia and understand the vital role credible and robust evidence can play in making this happen.
You are:

- Experienced in using health economics o inform internal and external decision making and achieve results, with the ability to lead and manage data projects simultaneously using project management approaches
- Identify, synthesise and summarise complex cost effectiveness literature and present findings in reports, varying formats appropriate to different audiences, to facilitate evidence informed decision making
- Confident in navigating the health, care, economics and system analysis research environment and can work with a range of researchers, think tanks and other suppliers to gather and generate credible evidence
- An opportunity spotter, able to work independently and collaboratively across internal and external boundaries to ensure our evidence is maximised to inform decisions and solutions that address the biggest challenges facing dementia across the UK
- Confident to hold others to account to ensure decisions and interpretation of dementia and the system are based on the highest quality of dementia evidence.
- Curious and constantly questioning the status quo
- Flexible, creative, and committed to continuous improvement
- Appreciate the complexities that come with working in a large and fast-moving organisation and are eager and able to work at pace in a complex environment, prioritising tasks and managing your time effectively to get the job done.

For this application, we strongly recommend including a supporting statement letting us know you are motivated for this role.
If in doubt, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team for further support.

London. Young people. Jesus.

There’s immense need as well as massive opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the diverse young people of London with the love and message of Jesus. Young Life International staff and volunteers are building relationships with young people across London and introducing them to Jesus Christ. This is a fast growing ministry having started the London focus in 2019 we now have staff and leaders in 10 boroughs, working with approximately 1,000 young people, with a goal to double in the next 3-5 years. YLI London is part of a UK wide ministry that is, in turn, part of the Global Ministry of Young Life, introducing young people across the world to Jesus for over 75 years.

We are looking to recruit an excellent London-based administrator, to support our staff and volunteers in this crucial work. You would be working independently, with some travel around London and the UK, as well as occasional travel outside the UK. Supported by the London Director as well as the YLI UK Operations Team. 

If you're looking for a role where you can really make a difference, where you get to be part of a friendly team, passionate about Jesus, then YLI London could be the place for you.

More Details and How to Apply

Download the Application Pack for the following information:

• Welcome from the London Director

• How this role fits into the wider YLI and Operations Team

• Full Job Description and Person Specification

• Details of how to apply online (application form)

• Deadline and interview dates

Applications should be received by: 8am, Monday 13th January 2025

We will respond to all applications we receive, by the 24th January. 

Interviews will be held on the week commencing 27th January.