Finance Officer

• Part time: 21 hrs per week
• Permanent contract
• Full time salary: £34,000 – £35,721 FTE per annum
• Location: Office in Rivington Street EC2A 3AY, with opportunity for blended working

About us

Transparency International is a global movement sharing one vision: a world in which government politics, business and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. Transparency International UK is the UK national chapter of this movement. We work with the British government, parliamentarians, civil society and the private sector to tackle corruption at home, addressing the UK’s global corruption footprint and helping multinational companies prevent corruption by operating with integrity. We are also home to two major global programmes tackling corruption in the Defence and Security sector and Global Health on behalf of the wider Transparency International movement.

This role is part of a small Finance and Shared services team that supports the work of the whole of TI-UK. The role is line managed by the Financial Controller and liaises with every team within the organisation.

About the role

As Finance Officer you will be the main point of contact for Finance, resolving queries and requests from budget holders and suppliers, whilst providing a high standard of customer service.

A key aspect of the role will be recording income and expenditure onto our accounts system and ensure the bank reconciliation and other monthly routines are completed in a timely basis.

In addition to this role you will:

• Ensure supplier payments, expense claims, credit card statements, and grants to partners are correctly approved and coded in preparation for import to the finance system and settlement
• Manage the payments process, including setting up payments (UK and overseas) on the electronic banking system
• Raise invoices to corporate members and debtor management in collaboration with the Business Integrity team
• Provide finance technology support through maintaining accounts systems including setting up new supplier and customer records and budget codes
• Reconciling invoices and ensuring fixed asset records are up-to date and accurate, including analysis of spending with our Technology support partner.
• Assist with month end closures, statutory and grant audit queries, HMRC reporting
• Completing new supplier due diligence processes as required, registration and raising purchase orders on supplier systems.
• Provide input and support to the Shared Service teams as agreed

About you

To be successful in the role you will have/will be:

Essential

• Proven experience in a Finance support role
• Knowledge and experience of managing an Accounts Payable payments process, recording income and expenditure in accounting systems, raising sales ledger invoices and credit control
• excellent organisational and time management skills
• Strong attention to detail
• strong interpersonal skills and customer service focussed
• a supportive colleague
• adept at resolving queries efficiently
• knowledge and experience using MS Office programmes

Desirable

• AAT or similar, or working towards an equivalent qualification
• Experience in a similar sized organisation
• Knowledge of Quickbooks

Benefits

In exchange we will offer:

• A competitive salary
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Up to 5% contributory pension
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced sickness and family friendly policies
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A flexible and friendly working environment, with the opportunity for blended working (more details of this can be found on our website)

Next steps

We use Applied for our recruitment. Applied is a recruitment platform that uses anonymised applications with the aim of removing bias and ensuring a fair recruitment process. You can find more details on their website beapplied.com.

After the advert closes, your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers. Please note that your CV does not form part of the sift process and you should therefore take the time to answer the specific questions fully and where appropriate with your relevant evidence.

The Applied platform also asks some demographic questions before you start your application. Transparency International UK will not see the responses to these demographic questions with your application. We only see summary statistics to help us check if our candidate pool is balanced and if everyone has an equal chance to get hired irrespective of their background.

If you prefer, you can easily opt out of answering these questions.

Please follow this link to start your application: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/38swbjqse9?utm_source=[LinkedIn]

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to a first interview. At the end of the process, we will provide you with some feedback on how you have performed.

The closing date for applications is 25th February 2024.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.