Finance Assistant

A start-up climate change organisation is seeking a Finance and Operations Assistant for their growing team. A great role for someone with some finance and administrative experience who would love to work in a rapidly growing industry!

The Operations and Finance Assistant reports to the Head of Operations, but will also work closely with the Finance Business Partner and wider team. The successful candidate will be support both the operations and finance teams to deliver against business targets in an administrative capacity. Helping to ensure that both functions operate smoothly. The ideal candidate will be highly organized and detailed. With a passion for learning, and implementing new processes and practices when required, getting a sense of achievement for ensuring that processes run smoothly and to time. They will be happy to work on their own in a remote working environment and be able to demonstrate that they can work on their own initiative as part of a remote team. They will need to be adaptable and happy to work in a busy environment.

Key Responsibilities

Operations Responsibilities

• Oversight for HR administration and record-keeping, including preparing paperwork and co-ordinating recruitment, induction and leaver processes
• Act as an IT superuser becoming an expert in IT systems and supporting colleagues to use them effectively
• Ordering stationery and IT equipment as required
• Managing health and safety for all employees
• Ensuring that insurance documents are up to date and compliant
• Assisting the Head of Operations with maintaining governance policies and organising related training when required to ensure compliance
• Managing Training and Coaching partners, and organising training when required
• Managing the relationship with facilities partners, dealing with any issues with regards to the premises, managing contracts with external suppliers
• Assisting the Head of Operations to manage the risk register

Finance Responsibilities

Maintaining and managing the update on the grants excel spreadsheet:

• Grants payment forecast
• Grants pipeline
• Grants data (input for budget)

Assisting in quarterly management packs

• cash flow forecasts
• income and expenditure analysis

Assisting in other various ad hoc tasks:

• admin side of the grantee and donor side Due Diligence (web search/ making sure the DD forms and documents are saved in relevant folders, filling in Know Your Donor)
• assist with data transition to the new Grant Management System
• assist with power point presentations

Qualifications & Experience

• A university degree in a related field including business management, Human Resources Management or law. A postgraduate degree or certificates in accounting, AAT or studying towards AAT certifications.
• Experience of the non-profit field would be desirable, with knowledge of the climate change sector would be desirable.
• Previous experience in a similar role as either an Operations or Finance assistant required.
• High level of attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Excellent time management skills. Excellent telephone manner and confident in a public facing role.
• Able to establish systems, record information and maintain records systematically.
• Confident user of IT software, including Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Confident working with numbers, data and spreadsheets.
• Able to work on own initiative and to timelines.