Finance Officer

Job Title: Finance Officer

Location: Blackheath, London, SE3 0PW

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full time – 35 hours per week

Our most valuable resource are the people within Morden College; they provide the supportive, caring and inclusive environment both for colleagues and for our Residents. Our culture encourages and supports creativity, celebrates our differences and the similarities that draw us together as a community and promote the highest standards of individual behaviour and accountability in everything we do.

Morden College is a charity that is dedicated to enabling a life-lived independence for the older people they provide homes for, through life, as they grow older. Morden College has enriched the lives of its residents as well as their families, over the last 300 years.  The Charity’s core purpose is to provide older people who are in need with a home for life within it’s beautiful grounds, with amazing facilities and surrounded by its caring people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest quality of care.

Our Charity’s Community Services are provided in the Almshouse accommodation at Blackheath and at Ralph Perring Court in Beckenham, through the vibrant communal space in the John Morden Centre and the case management approach that proactively identifies, assesses, and supports the most vulnerable in our community. Our residential care home, Cullum Welch Court (“CWC”), provides personal nursing and dementia care 24/7. With 32 beds, it is small enough to maintain a personalised service to its residents, yet large enough to provide the facilities required to meet their range of needs.

Morden College is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

About the Role:

The finance officer will be a key member of the finance team and will work closely with the financial controller and management accountant to provide support while ensuring service levels are maintained and ensuring efficiency improvements are made when required.

The Candidate:

• GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
• AAT qualification. (Desirable)
• Bookkeeping experience.
• An aptitude for IT and finance systems.
• Microsoft Office packages, specifically MS Excel.
• Knowledge of Pegasus Opera. (Desirable)
• Knowledge of WinMan (Desirable)
• Knowledge of CareSys (Desirable)
• Excellent communication and customer care skills.
• Good planning and organisation, having the ability to re-organise plans to accommodate emerging new priorities.
• Experience in working in a deadline driven environment.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities include but aren’t limited to:

• To code and process invoices onto the financial system and liaise with the relevant departments within the College to clarify the nature of expenses when necessary.
• To process the activity for centralised and localised ordering of goods/services, ensuring strict controls over department expenditure are being observed.
• To undertake prompt analysis of supplier queries, including supplier statement reconciliations on a monthly basis and identify the appropriate corrective action.
• To ensure timely settling of invoices to suppliers using manual and electronic payment systems as required including the preparation of the weekly payment run.
• To oversee and be responsible for filing and archiving of invoices including the updating of relevant systems to ensure an accurate record is kept.
• To liaise closely with all relevant parties and stakeholders including Heads of Department in the College to ensure service levels are maintained and ensure disputes are resolved.
• Lead on the production of Social Club cashbooks

Benefits:

We will provide you with 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time roles), additional holidays for long service, an enhanced pension, free onsite parking, a 24/7 employee assistance programme, life assurance and flexible working.

The College actively encourages individuals to expand their knowledge and understanding to the benefit of all parties, and actively supports CPD opportunities through a generous learning and development budget.

Our most valuable resource are the people within Morden College; they provide the supportive, caring and inclusive environment both for colleagues and for our Residents. Our culture encourages and supports creativity, celebrates our differences and the similarities that draw us together as a community and promote the highest standards of individual behaviour and accountability in everything we do.

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Financial Assistant, Accounts Administrator, Accounts Clerk, Finance Officer, Accounts Officer, Finance Clerk, Finance Administrator, Accountant, Accounts Payable, Accounts Analyst, Senior Finance Assistant, AAT, ACCA, CIMA, Accounts Reconciliation, Bank Reconciliation, Finance Accountant, Accounts Receivable, Credit Control may also be considered for this role.