Job Title: Finance Officer
Location: Blackheath, London, SE3 0PW
Salary: £26,775 per annum
Job Type: Full time – 35 hours per week
Anticipated Start Date: April 2023
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 its beautiful grounds, with amazing facilities and surrounded by its caring people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest quality of care.
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 regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
About the Role:
As Finance Officer you will be a key member of Morden College’s community. You will be part of the friendly and busy Finance Team and will work closely with the Financial Controller and the Management Accountant to provide efficient support to all stakeholders whilst meeting deadlines and ensuring that improvements are made when required.
This role is office based 5 days a week.
Key Duties:
- To code and process invoices onto the financial systems 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 assist with any ad hoc duties, including data analysis, reconciling age creditors analysis as directed by the Financial Controller.
- 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.
- To work closely with other members of the team including internal and external customers
- To monitor the correspondence in the centralised e-mail inbox for the Finance Department in order to log invoices and promptly respond to queries.
- To be actively involved in updating monthly cashbooks on Excel and Opera.
- Lead on all banking, petty cash floats, residents pocket money and staff expenses reconciliation
- Lead on the production of Social Club cashbooks
- To maintain confidentiality at all times and comply with the policies and procedures of Morden College, as well as General Data Protection Regulations 2016 and Data Protection Act 2018.
About you:
- 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
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure and own initiative
Benefits:
- Enhanced Annual Leave
- CPD opportunities through a generous learning and development budget.
- Career Development Opportunities
- Online Wellness Hub
- Health Assessments
- Free Perks and Discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounts on food and drinks in our Café
- Enhanced Pension
- Life Assurance
- Employee Referral Scheme
- EV charging points available and Free on-site
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV for this role.
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, Senior Finance Assistant, AAT, ACCA, Accounts Reconciliation, Bank Reconciliation, Finance Accountant, Accounts Receivable, Credit Control may also be considered for this role.
