Assistant Accountant at Children North East
Contract Type: Permanent
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Full time
Application deadline:
Based: Newcastle
Salary: £29,024 to 31,856 Per Annum
Salary Type: Salary Scale
Location: Tyne and Wear
Role description: Assistant
Children North East is a large North East based children’s charity that works across the region, with some work extending across England, Wales and Scotland. We exist because growing up can be hard. We want all babies, children and young people to be happy and healthy, and to grow up feeling safe and loved, resilient to the challenges they may face, and valued and confident.
Purpose of the Role
- To be responsible for preparing the monthly management accounts for review by the Finance Director, in line with the finance timetable, ensuring information is complete and accurate.
- To oversee the day-to-day financial operations, ensuring transactions are recorded on a timely basis and in line with the Children North East policies and procedures.
- To help maintain, review and improve the financial systems, processes and controls to ensure a robust financial control environment.
- To work in line with the Finance Strategy embedded in the overall Charity’s 5-Year strategy.
Main Responsibilities
- To prepare, review and post month end journals (prepayments, accruals, deferred and accrued income, etc.), working closely with the finance team.
- To ensure all financial reconciliations (including balance sheet, and fundraising) are complete and accurate and any differences are resolved on a timely basis.
- To ensure VAT returns are prepared, reviewed and submitted on a quarterly basis.
- To proactively manage the sales and purchase ledgers, ensuring they are regularly maintained and up to date and all customer and supplier queries are resolved and invoices processed.
- To assist with credit control of the charity, chasing debts and ensuring no balances are older than 3 months.
- To review and prepare supplier payment runs on a monthly basis, reconciling to supplier statements.
- To assist in the preparation of the year end annual accounts and have key involvement in the annual audit.
- To meet with budget holders on a monthly basis to review actual progress to budget.
How to Apply
Please visit the “Our Vacancies” section of our website at www.children-ne.org.uk to apply. Please note CVs will not be accepted.
We welcome a diverse range of applications and are passionate about promoting equality, and valuing diversity. We welcome applications from all suitable qualified persons particularly black, Asian and minority ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.
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