Job Description

The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust is a small charity dedicated to improving the lives of young people and communities from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds.

Through our portfolio of high-impact programmes we:

• Work with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds aged 13 to 30 to inspire and enable them to succeed in the career of their choice. 
• Empower individuals and communities to create better places for people to live and work. 
• Support people to create a fairer society in which everyone, regardless of their background, can flourish

Over the last two years, we have undergone an exciting journey to move from being London-focused to having national reach and presence. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Finance Officer to join the team and help us along our journey to achieving further growth.

Main duties/ responsibilities:

Supplier processing and reconciliations

• Monitor accounts email inbox
• Electronic filing to QuickBooks and Shared drive
• Process supplier invoices, bills, charge cards, staff expenses and other costs
• Stock order reconciliation to invoices
• Prepare payment runs for approval and upload to online banking
• Allocations of payments to ledgers
• Sending remittance advices to suppliers
• Supplier relationship management
• Supplier statement reconciliations
• Customer processing and reconciliations including processing grant and donation receipts

• Update the CRM for grant payments.

Management reporting

• Bank reconciliations
• Petty cash management, processing and reconciliation
• Month end journals and reconciliations e.g. accruals, prepayments, allocations, payroll, grant accruals
• Prepare management accounts using reports from Quick Books

Year-end reporting and Audit

• Assist with annual audit and accounts preparation
• Prepare Trial balance and year end reconciliations for auditors

Other

• Provide financial information for funders reports
• To perform any other reasonable duties as required by the organisation.

Person Specification

• Minimum AAT qualified or relevant QBE.
• At least three years’ experience in a similar role, of which one year must be working within a charity.
• Experience with QuickBooks and/or similar finance systems as well as proficiency in Excel.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent English language skills (both written and oral).
• Ability to work autonomously to achieve agreed objectives and organisational targets with minimal supervision.
• High level of organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail and a thorough and systematic approach to diagnosing and solving problems.
• Excellent interpersonal awareness and communication.

Diversity Policy:

The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust is keen to encourage applications from individuals from a diverse range of applicants. We are particularly proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion.