Save the Children Hiring for Income Accounting and Controls Officer Job at Farringdon, England Full Time

Save the Children UK is looking for a proactive and analytical Income Accounting and Controls Officer to join the team.

• Do you have experience processing high volumes of transactions and reconciliations in a fast-moving environment?
• Do you enjoy streamlining processes and identifying opportunities for improvement?
• Are you excited by the opportunity to gain experience in a complex, global, non-profit organisation?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

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

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Income Accounting and Controls Manager, as Income Accounting and Controls Officer you’ll be responsible for ensuring the delivery of a well-controlled, efficient and effective service. This includes income accounting, bank and other control account reconciliations, recharges, and intercompany reconciliations between SCUK and subsidiaries including Save the Children International (SCI).

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The role holder will visibly lead our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

As Income Accounting and Controls Officer, you will maintain and ensure the full reconciliation of bank, control and intercompany accounts for SCUK and all its subsidiaries. You’ll be responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely posting of all transactions from interfaces into Agresso (CARE & EPOS) and that any issues are quickly identified and resolved.

You’ll have the opportunity to identify areas where processes could be improved and take the lead in implementing relevant changes, including streamlining and automating existing processes.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the bank, general ledger and other standing data modules in the financial system (Agresso) are updated accordingly (i.e. journals and bank statements)
• Ensuring the accurate and timely posting of month-end related journals including Accruals, Prepayments, Recharges, Recodes and Revaluations and liaising with Income Processing units, Business partnering and other finance teams to ensure issues are quickly identified and resolved
• Reviewing refund requests from the Fundraising team, liaising with the Legal team to ensure they are dealt with appropriately and paid in accordance to Refund Policy
• Liaising with key contacts from our payment platform providers or other 3rd parties
• Ensuring that appropriate financial controls are operating in accordance with SCUK’s Financial Control Framework.

Person Profile

We’re looking for an analytical and detail-driven Finance professional who is able to ensure high volumes of transactions are processed quickly and accurately, whilst identifying financial issues/risks.

You’ll have strong problem-solving skills, confident responding to a wide range of queries and developing robust procedures for control account reconciliation.

Joining a collaborative team, you’ll enjoy working flexibly and co-operatively and will have proven experience developing effective working relationships at all levels.

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work independently with an enthusiastic, flexible approach
• Good time-management skills and ability to plan and prioritise workload
• Good communications skills both verbally and written, with the ability to explain finance issues to non-finance colleagues
• A proactive approach to resolving any issues that may arise, by assessing their impact and identifying those that need to be escalated for resolution.

Education/Professional Skills:

• Experience of and ability to understand the interrelationship between different IT systems
• Qualified by experience / part-qualified accountant (AAT, CIMA, ACCA).

Other desirable experience (but not essential):

• Experience of Agresso
• Experience of operating in a global and complex organisation
• Experience in the INGO sector.

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office. Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

Flexible Working – We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be “Free to Be Me”. We are mot looking for just one type of person – we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences – of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability – help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure:

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/

Interview Expenses:

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role