Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant

Red Balloon Educational Trust

Location: Milton, Cambridgeshire

Hours: 16 hours per week, 4 days a week, including Fridays. 52 weeks a year with 30 days pro rata holiday, plus bank holidays.

Salary: £23,000 – £25,000 Pro Rata FTE Depending on experience (Actual £9,200 – £10,000)

Start Date: 1st September 2023

Role:

If you are considering a career in accounting and are looking for a role to support you in your career development, this might be the role you have been waiting for!

Due to recent growth, Red Balloon Educational Trust has created a new Accounts Assistant role which will play essential role in providing support to the provisions within our trust as we grow and expand. The role reports to the (RBET) Head of Finance who supports and manages finances for various RBET Centres throughout the UK.

Through maintaining financial systems, recording and processing financial information, data entry and general financial administration, you will ensure effective financial management for RBET Central Services. This role is being offered initially for 16 hours per week, over 3 or 4 days, and must include Friday. Our Central Services team works in a Hybrid model, and this role would have a requirement to be onsite in Milton, though working from home will be an option once the successful candidate has passed their probation.

Some key responsibilities of this role include:

• Manage the day-to- day bookkeeping of RBET Central Services including the recording of receipts and outgoings on Xero;
• Oversee day-to-day finances including banking, bank reconciliations, purchase and sales ledgers;
• Manage and complete the set up of payments of supplier invoices, employee expenses, payroll and other relevant expenditure;
• Support the RBET Head of Finance with regards to any required financial reporting;
• Process RBET credit cards and raise any credit card issues or discrepancies with RBET Head of Finance;

To be considered for this role you will need to have:

• Educated to A Level or Equivalent
• GCSE’s – C Grade / Level 5 or above in Maths and English
• Experience of using business CRM or Finance systems and other IT systems Google Suite and Microsoft Suite

You can view a full job description and person specification below.

How to Apply

In line with safer recruitment practices, we are only able to accept applications via our application forms, which can be accessed by following the application link below. You can save your application at any point and come back to it at a later stage.

For more details about our recruitment and interview process, please see our candidate pack which can be downloaded via the link above.

Closing date

• The deadline for applications is 12pm Thursday the 27th of July 2023
• Interviews will be held online on Wednesday the 2nd and/or Thursday the 3rd of August 2023.
• All applicants will be contacted to advise if they have been shortlisted for an interview

If you would like to apply for this role, though require a different format of application, such as large print or the opportunity to submit a video application or an application via an alternative method, please contact HR and Operations Lead via email brooke.hornby@rbet.ac or telephone 07878 837 902 and we would be happy to arrange an alternative application method.

Red Balloon is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires the successful candidate to commit to this. The person appointed will be subjected to an enhanced DBS check.

Red Balloon is an equal opportunities employer. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, marital status.