Finance Officer
Salary £ 28,000
Queenswood Country Park
Vacancy listed 10/10/2025
Application deadline 31/10/2025
Details
We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Finance Officer to join our team.

The Finance Officer will be the key contact for the day-to-day financial aspects of the Trust and will assist in the administration and maintenance of an effective and robust finance department. They will ensure that timely and accurate monthly reporting is completed within strict deadlines, supporting the senior management team with reliable financial data.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Process sales and purchase invoices & credit notes, raising funding requests, inter-company recharges, prepayments and posting journals, all using Xledger financial software
  • Manage weekly supplier payment runs, ensuring timely and accurate payments aligned with contractual obligations
  • Maintain nominal, sales and purchase ledgers
  • Credit control, including producing debtor statements and proactively chasing payment for overdue accounts
  • Monthly reconciliations for all the Trust’s bank accounts
  • Receive cash/cheque/BACS payments, accurately allocating cash to ledgers ensuring correct budget codes are used
  • Reconcile and post monthly credit card transactions ensuring accurate coding to relevant expenditure codes
  • Assist with the quarterly VAT returns
  • Maintain the fixed asset register and post the monthly depreciation journal 
  • Administer payroll and pension processes using Bright pay, including monthly and year end procedures, P11D submissions, and reporting to HRMC and pension providers. Provide financial guidance and project support to budget holders and project officers, including grant tracking and reporting.  
  • Handle banking activities, securing deposits of cash and cheques for the Trust as required
  • Assist the Head of Finance with the preparation of monthly management accounts, the preparation of the annual budget, quarterly re-forecasts, the financial year end and annual external audit
  • Support the Finance Committee with minute taking
  • Undertake any other financial tasks as required, such as staff training on Xledger
Benefits

5% Employer pension contributions
Life Assurance, 2 x basic salary
Enhanced sick pay
EAP 24/7 confidential access to expert services including counselling ,
wellbeing, independent legal and financial advice
Health cash plan with Westfield health
Volunteering: 2 paid volunteer days each year.
Annual Leave 25 days a year, increasing 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days
Flexible and hybrid working

Notes

Please include your CV and a supporting statement that refers to the person specification in the job description, outlining your relevant knowledge, skills, and experience. The supporting statement should not include any personal details (e.g. name, address) to support anonymised shortlisting.

Both documents should be submitted in an editable format (e.g. Word) to allow for anonymisation.

We’ll begin interviews as soon as we’ve received a good number of applications—so don’t wait too long to apply!

Attached documents
Title File
JD Finance Officer JD_Finance_Officer_7-10-2025.pdf
Equal Opportunities and diversity policy HWT_EQUAL_OPPORTUNITIES_AND_DIVERSITY_POLICY.pdf
Ex Offenders Statement Recruitment_of_ex_offenders_policy_statement.pdf
Diversity Form 05_New_Diversity_Monitoring_Form.xlsx
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