Finance Officer

Acorns Children's Hospice are now seeking a Finance Officer to be an integral part of the Finance Team, with responsibility for all aspects of purchase ledger, sales ledger and bank reconciliations

About the Role

Acorns is currently the UK’s largest children’s hospice charity, in terms of both numbers of children and families supported and annual expenditure on our care work.  We need to raise more than £11 million each year to run and support our care services and we rely heavily on the goodwill and generosity of our local community. 

As Finance Officer, you will:

• Reconcile all banking transactions, importing information into the Finance system (IRIS Financials)
• Collate purchase invoices, credit notes, delivery notes and purchase orders for input into the ledger system
• Manage payment runs, minimising payments outside of main runs
• Liaise with the Transactions Manager, so the relationship with aged debtors and creditors is optimised
• Answer supplier queries and manage the email inbox

About You

• Experience in all aspects of purchase ledger, sales ledger, bank and cash reconciliations 
• Ability to organise own workload
• Meticulous and methodical
• Working knowledge of accounting software packages

What We Offer

• £23,000 to £28,000 per annum
• 37 hours per week
• Hybrid role with office and home working
• Employee discounts from leading retailers
• Employee gym discount scheme
• Bike-to-Work scheme
• Generous contribution to group personal pension plan or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
• NHS pension scheme life assurance or Acorns group life assurance scheme

Interviews are scheduled to be held on 11 November

You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check for children and will be asked to provide two satisfactory references.

As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation, we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Children’s Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.

If you have any questions, please contact us at recruitment@acorns.org.uk

Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?