Food Foundation CIO Hiring for Finance and Operations Officer Job at London, England Full Time

The Finance and Operations Officer role will be a key member of the operations team supporting the wider team. This is a vital support role to enable the organisation to gain financial sustainability and create real social change. If you are driven by social purpose and want to work with a dynamic and growing charity supporting the change on Food systems through policy and investors achieve their best possible outcomes, please apply.

• Do you gain satisfaction from diving through numbers and ledgers to find that missing amount and reconciling balances?
• Do you thrive to ensure accuracy and timeliness in creating financial information?
• Do you enjoy creating reports that help different stakeholders understand finances?
• Do you like variation in your role?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

Working pattern: part time: hybrid (1 -2 days a week in the office) and office working available. Our office is in London Brixton.

Job Purpose

This is an exciting role for a finance professional at the beginning or middle of their career. This is varied role that will develop many skill sets; the role will mainly focus on everyday financing and reporting however, there will be other opportunities to support or coordinate on the operations side. As we are a growing charity, this is a great opportunity to be a part of creating and improving organisational systems and structures, alongside the Head of Finance and Operations. As there is a great deal of cross-over between the work of the three departments, there are also opportunities to be involved in other areas of our work you are interested.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Finance and Operations Officer to work as part of our operations team in delivering high quality services to our staff, Trustees, funders and senior management team. You will be well organised and able to meet deadlines, with strong communication and numeracy skills. You will be practical and focused, with a can-do approach to tasks.

Your experience

Your experience does not need to come from the charity sector, but we are looking for someone who enjoys working in accounts, both processing and conducting analysis. Someone good with numbers and can/wants to learn how to look beyond the figures to incorporate finances into the bigger picture and organisational story. Someone that sees themselves as a finance business partner to the organisation.

A week in the job will look like: Processing invoices (10-20 at most), expenses, talking through spend against budgets with managers, analysing and querying operational spend with contractors e.g. IT support contractors, creating financial reports for SMT, supporting the Head of Finance with governance reviews e.g. interviewing Trustees.

Main Responsibilities

Financial Accounting:

• Maintain monthly credit control on income receivable, chasing or invoicing.
• Maintain the purchase ledger including processing payments to suppliers.
• Checking and processing expenses.
• Support the preparation of the quarterly VAT return.
• Support the year end audit process.
• Prepare bank and cash reconciliations.
• Support the Head of Finance with manging and monitoring suppliers and contractors.
• Support the Head of Finance with Payroll reconciliation from external payroll agent.

Financial Management

• Support the production of monthly management accounts.
• To prepare reports as required for the Director of Finance & Operations, Chief Executive and/or Board of Trustees.
• Support the of Head of Finance with the Business Partnering approach to non finance colleagues.
• To support the induction of staff through providing oversight of finance and systems processes.
• Be a Finance business partner to our budget holders.

HR

• Support the Head of Finance with administration of HR system, setting up new starters and leavers.
• Support Head of Finance or team with administration of recruiting new members, ensuring EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) is being applied at every stage.

Other

• Attending our Board meetings, taking minutes and participating in the Finance Committee, and other meetings as required.
• Support Head of Finance, CEO and Board with Governance administration.

• Support the Head of Finance in office administration e.g. Health and Safety surveys, ordering equipment etc.
• To carry out and other reasonable duties as requested by the line manager or senior management.

Deadline 9am Monday 10th October 2022

Please download our job pack for full details. We will interview people based on suitability as and when we are sent CV’s and cover letters. Please apply as soon as possible.

Please apply via charity jobs or email (please see job pack) with ’Global Youth Campaign Co-Ordinator’ with a cover letter and up to date CV (include contact details of two references in CV).

We may not be able to respond to all applicants due to the high volume of applications.