Volunteer Finance Support Volunteer | Burning Nights CRPS Support

Are you a financial genius? Help our small charity move to Xero, train our team to use it in conjunction with our CRM, create reports, improve financial resilience & develop financial forecasting

What will you be doing?

We are urgently looking for a volunteer who can support the charity’s financial systems by moving our current way of working to Xero.

We need help to

• Set up our Xero account including restricted & unrestricted funding
• Guide the team to create an adaptable and updatable budget
• Support us with financial forecasting
• Track project financial situations
• Ensure reconciliation of records and transactions (and train our team to reconcile
• Help us create monthly reports

We would love a volunteer who can

• Quickly understand our current financial set up and main concerns
• Set up our newly purchased Xero account
• Train our small team to get the most out of our Xero accounts including creating monthly reports from Xero
• Help us get to grips with relevant options / approaches / strategies
• Discuss next steps
• Follow up with any further questions or outcomes

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a volunteer who

• Has knowledge and experience of Xero including tracking project spending, volunteers expenses, department spending, uploading invoices, reconciliation etc
• Tracking financial data and information
• Ideally if you have knowledge of charity/fundraising CRM systems (we use Donorfy)
• Has the ability to quickly understand the needs of/challenges faced by our small charity organisation
• Has accurate and up to date knowledge and experience of charity finance, SORP and other relevant frameworks
• Can train a small team to use Xero

We’d love to hear from people who are able to offer around 3-5 hours a week to complete this short term project. This is a remote role with flexibility to work around you.

This is currently a short term project role, however a regular financial assistant volunteer/bookkeeping volunteer role may become a permanent availability if the person appointed is interested.

What difference will you make?

With your help we will be able to continue to transform the lives of those affected by a poorly understood condition, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome through offering support services such as our counselling & therapy service, online support groups and befriending services. And ultimately ensure the long-term sustainability of our organisation beyond the challenges from the current financial climate.

Causes

• Campaigning
• Counselling / advice
• Health and well being / research and care
• Mental health
• Physical disabilities
• Young people

Organisation type

Charity

Burning Nights CRPS Support is a UK wide charity that works to improve life for those living with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). As a charity we raise awareness about the condition…