Finance Assistant


Salary:
Competitive Salary (£18,278 - £20,368 per annum)
Hours: 37 hours per week


Location:
Newton Aycliffe, DL5

We are Groundwork...

...aiming to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. Kindness is at the heart of everything we do here.

Each year we make an incredible difference to communities across the North East and Cumbria. We work on hundreds of individual projects each year, supporting disadvantaged communities and improving green spaces. We are proud that we change people’s lives.

Want to join us?

We have some amazing people already working for us already. Our Finance Team is at the heart working with our project teams and financially keeping things ticking over. We are friendly, good spirited and hard working – motivated to provide a great service to the rest of Groundwork.

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognize and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work.

What will a ‘typical’ day look like?

Take ownership of processing invoices we receive from suppliers
Ensure that invoices are cleared for payment by checking against purchase orders
Taking pride in ensuring invoices are coded and entered onto our Sage accounting package correctly
Pull together the information for a payment run to pay suppliers
Maintain direct debit paperwork
Help our Claims team with the documentation they need to give to funders
Process credit card, prepayment card and petty cash transactions and proactively chasing up queries and receipts
General filing and scanning and any other special finance tasks that crop up

What do we need from you?

Experience of working in a finance role
Good technical experience of excel and an accountancy package, preferably Sage.
Keen to study AAT or perhaps have already made a start
Be a great communicator
Well organized and can meet realistic deadlines
Genuinely want to do your best – pride in being accurate
Not afraid to ask if you’re not sure
Work well with others

What you’ll get from us?

25 days holiday, rising to 27 days per annum plus public holidays
Family friendly policies to support work/life balance and time off in lieu for out of hours work
Access to Cycle to Work Scheme
Better health at work activities
Life Insurance scheme
Opportunities to visit projects and to volunteer
A strong feeling of wellbeing for being part of something incredible doing incredible things

Closing date: Midnight on 5th October 2022

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

Groundwork NE & Cumbria is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

These roles are both subject to a Basic Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

No agencies please.