Finance & Administration Officer

Crystal Palace Park Trust; London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a growing charity as a Finance & Administrative Officer to support the management of Crystal Palace Park. This varied role involves bookkeeping, office management, and customer service, contributing to the park's evolution as a leading visitor attraction.

Qualifications

• Experience in a finance function.
• Skills in office management and administration.

Responsibilities

• Support in bookkeeping and credit control.
• Ensure smooth running of the office.
• Main point of contact for callers and visitors.

Skills

Office Management

Data Processing

Customer Service

Job description

The Finance & Administrative Officer role offers the opportunity to join a young and growing registered charity at an exciting point in its evolution, and to help lead on establishing Crystal Palace Park as an exemplar in urban park management, community-led regeneration and cultural and heritage programming whilst restoring its position as one of the UK’s leading visitor attractions.

We are seeking candidates who have experience working in a finance function and have skills in office management and administration including data processing. Reporting directly to the Head of Finance and Corporate Services, the role provides support in bookkeeping, credit control (inputting of sales and purchases invoices), health and safety and smooth running of the office (ranging from ensuring there is milk in the fridge to ordering stationery as well as IT requirements). As the main point of contact for callers and visitors an awareness of excellent customer service will also be needed. The role is very varied and will suit a candidate skilled at multi-tasking and who has attention to detail.

The appointment comes at a pivotal moment: in September 2023, after 25 years of community campaigning, Crystal Palace Park Trust took over custodianship of this unique landscape via a 125-year lease from the London Borough of Bromley. We are now working closely with them and a wide variety of other park and community stakeholders to deliver our mission: to protect, manage and improve Crystal Palace Park as a green, historic, ecological, recreational, sporting, cultural and educational resource in the interests of park users and of the wider community.