Assistant Management Accountant

Assistant Management Accountant

London, E1

£30,000- £32,000 per annum | 35 hours per week

• Are you a superb communicator with great attention to detail?
• Can you work with the team to carry out complex reconciliations?
• Do you have experience of working with SUN & fundraising databases?

If this sounds like you, the Assistant Management Accountant role at Asthma UK could be what you’re looking for!

We’re looking for someone with drive, enthusiasm and excellent relationship building skills. You will play a critical role in analysing and recording our revenue streams, ensuring that income is coded accurately and posted on our systems in a timely manner. You will provide support to budget holders in resolving queries and support their decision making through timely provision of financial information and other financial analysis. 

If you’ve got excellent customer service, communication and MS Office skills, an understanding of the peculiarities of charity accounting and who has superb attention to detail this is the job for you. You would need to have worked in a finance department before and be highly numerate. You will have worked with computerised Financial  Systems and Fundraising Databases before and equally you also need to be a great relationship builder - in particular with internal finance and fundraising colleagues – where you’ll need to be a great advocate and advertisement for Asthma UK. This is a critical role, joining a key charity at an exciting stage of our growth and development.   

What the role involves:

• Running the Raiser’s Edge/ SUN Interface timely and accurately
• Processing all financial information and posting income onto SUN Financial System
• Taking responsibility for accurately reconciling information between SUN with Raisers Edge
• Maintaining an efficient sales ledger system for the charity and its subsidiary

You will need to be:

• A confident self-starter with good Numeracy skills and Attention to detail
• At home carrying out complex reconciliations.
• Computer literate with strong Excel and word processing skills
• Experienced of working with accounting software packages (preferably Sun account)
• Confident in carrying out complex reconciliations.
• Knowledgeable of general bookkeeping and accounting procedures
• An excellent time-manager
• An excellent team player

Come and make a difference

Every 10 seconds someone in the UK has a potentially life-threatening asthma attack and three people die every day. Asthma UK works to stop asthma attacks and, ultimately, cure asthma. How? By funding world leading research, campaigning for better care and providing content that supports the 5.4 million people in the UK with asthma to reduce their risk of a potentially fatal asthma attack. 

This is a great place to work

With around 80 people, we are a tight team working together successfully to stop asthma attacks and cure asthma. Our recent staff survey reports that although we have a decidedly high performance culture, it’s probably the friendliest place most people have worked with great opportunities for development. So, if you have you have a talent for stewardship and the passion to convert grateful asthma advice seekers into donors, we’d love to hear from you.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 28 February 2017 at 9am

Interviews will be held: 6 March 2017

Second interviews will be held: 8 March 2017