Income Entry Assistant
Salary £ 27,120 plus excellent benefits
Canterbury
Vacancy listed 19/11/2025
Application deadline 10/12/2025
Details
Are you detail-focused, proactive, confident with numbers and passionate about keeping financial systems running smoothly? The Diocese of Canterbury is seeking an Income Entry Assistant to join our Finance & Giving Team and play a crucial role in maintaining accurate financial records that support our parishes, clergy and the Social Justice Network, our key charitable subsidiary.

As our Income Entry Assistant, you will be responsible for accurately processing and allocating all income transactions, ensuring our financial records are complete, compliant and audit-ready. You’ll post daily bank receipts, manage fee collection from parishes, produce monthly reports and support credit control and debtor reconciliation.

This is a varied and rewarding position where no two days are the same, and you’ll be part of a supportive team committed to high standards and collaborative working.

We’re seeking a detail-oriented finance professional with experience in a finance department and a solid understanding of debits, credits and basic accounting principles. You should be confident using Excel and databases such as Microsoft Access and be able to communicate effectively with colleagues, senior staff and external stakeholders.

Highly organised and proactive, you’ll be comfortable working both independently and as part of a team, resolving discrepancies accurately and managing multiple priorities. 

Sympathetic to and supportive of the mission, aims and objectives of the Diocese of Canterbury, including our churches, parishes and church schools would be desirable.

 Canterbury Diocese is the oldest in England and spans a diverse region from Maidstone to Thanet and the Isle of Sheppey to Romney Marsh. With coastal towns, rural communities and urban areas side by side, it offers a rich and challenging mission context.

Our vision is Changed Lives, Changing Lives: a community transformed by encountering Christ and committed to transforming and blessing the families and communities we serve.

Closing date: 10th December 2025
Interview date: 18th December 2025.

Benefits

- Permanent Contract
- 35-hour week
- 11% employer pensions contribution
- Generous life insurance.
- 24 days annual leave + Christmas closure and Bank Holidays
- Birthday Leave
- 1 Wellbeing day per annum.
- 21 hours of volunteering leave
- Central Canterbury location

Notes

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION, HOW TO APPLY - PLEASE READ**
How to apply:
1) The full role profile including details of responsibilities, salary and person specification which will help you inform your application can be found in the documents below.
2) In the documents below you will find our application form which you need to download and complete in MS Word before you start to apply online. You will need to upload this when applying for the role.
*You must complete our application form, CV's alone will not be accepted*.
3) It is important that you do not begin any part of the the online application process until you are ready to submit your completed application form as per point two above.
Regrettably, any submissions without a completed application form will be rejected.
If you have any problems with the online recruitment process, please do not hesitate to email recruitment@diocant.org or call 01227 459401 asking for People Services.