Available Job Today Finance Assistant
Permanent: 32hrs – 35 hrs per week
Hybrid (1-2 days per week in Birmingham Office, 3 - 4 days remote)
Salary: £25,000 - £26,000 per annum for 35 hrs per week (pro rata for 32hrs per week).
England Athletics is the membership and development body for athletics and running in England. We work in partnership with the wider athletics family, especially our member clubs and bodies, UK Athletics, Sport England & commercial partners, to grow opportunities for everyone to experience our sport and to enable them to reach their full potential. England Athletics also provides national level competition and is responsible for athlete development beneath world class performance level.
England Athletics is a membership organisation with c1,780 member clubs/bodies and c168,000 registered athletes, which exists to provide services and support to its members and to promote and deliver athletics and running activities across all ages, event disciplines, ability levels and aspirations; and to give support to the wider sport where there are more than 7m who run each month in England, 2,000 licensed road races and 186,624 active RunTogether participants operating in more than 3,192 groups.
We want to inspire more athletes and runners of all abilities and backgrounds to fulfil their potential and to have a lifelong love of the sport. It’s our vision for athletics to become an inclusive sport where everyone belongs and can flourish. We want every participant involved in our sport, whether they are an athlete, runner, coach, official, leader, volunteer, facility operator, parent, or guardian to see and experience first-hand the guiding principles that continue to drive our work – including putting the athlete and runner first, encouraging high standards and ethical success across all aspects of our work, enhancing experiences, and working together in partnership not in isolation.
The Role
The Finance Assistant will be responsible for running an accurate purchase ledger – processing invoices in a timely manner, resolving invoice queries, matching invoices to purchase orders and preparing payment runs in line with the cashflow forecast requirements. This role will undertake financial administration and accounting activities, including journal creation and entry, bank account reconciliations, purchase order reviews that assist in the production of the monthly reporting and control processes, inputting to the payroll process, and maintaining our purchase order and project costing system, FocalPoint.
The Finance Assistant will be responsible for creating monthly reconciliations of Balance Sheet control accounts including control of the PAYE, Recharges and Suspense Accounts, posting bank statement entries to the system and producing the full monthly Bank Reconciliation on a timely basis.
We are looking for an individual with previous purchase ledger and financial administration experience, who is able to work cooperatively in a team environment, work effectively under pressure, achieve the monthly and quarterly deadlines, and is self-motivated when working remotely.
For further information and to apply for this exciting post, please visit our website https://www.englandathletics.org/about-us/careers/
Closing date for applications: 5.00pm on Wednesday 12th April 2023
England Athletics is committed to providing and supporting an inclusive culture that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are proud of the diverse community we represent and want to ensure our workforce is representative of that community so welcome applications from all sections of the community and diverse groups. We will, at every opportunity, advance equality, and inclusivity for all staff, at all levels within the organisation, by addressing barriers, encouraging participation, and taking all relevant steps to meet everyone’s needs.