Finance Assistant

Royal College Of Physicians & Surgeons Of Glasgow; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A professional membership body in Glasgow is seeking a Finance Assistant responsible for processing financial transactions, reconciling accounts, and managing credit control. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in double entry bookkeeping, experience with financial ledgers, and proficiency in MS Excel. Benefits include 40 days holiday, hybrid working conditions, and a contributory pension scheme. Candidates must already have the right to work in the UK. Apply by submitting your CV and cover letter.

Benefits

40 days holiday

Hybrid working

Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Enhanced Sick Pay

Health and Wellbeing Benefit

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Understanding of double entry bookkeeping.
• Experience managing bank and sales ledgers.
• Basic to intermediate MS Excel skills.
• Experience in computerised accounting systems.
• Ability to communicate with non-financial staff.

Responsibilities

• Process financial transactions and reconcile the cashbook.
• Manage Balance Sheet and Income & Expenditure accounts.
• Credit control and respond to finance queries.
• Liaise with College teams and external suppliers.

Skills

Double entry bookkeeping

Bank reconciliation

Sales ledger

Purchase ledger

General ledger

MS Excel skills

Communication skills

Tools

Computerised accounting systems

Job description

Finance Assistant

Grade 3 - £25,640- Fixed term (10 -Month)

35 hours / week

Since being granted our Royal Charter in 1599, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow has been improving health and healthcare for people around the world.

Today, we are a professional membership body providing education, assessment and development to more than 15,000 Fellows and Members at all stages of their careers. We are a UK organisation with a global membership.

Our estate in the heart of Glasgow city centre includes modern conferencing and events facilities, a rich and extensive heritage collection with museum status, a library and our multi-award winning events offering, 1599 at the Royal College.

Our purpose is built around delivering :

• Excellent education and outstanding member experience
• New standards through assessment and gold standard qualifications
• Transformative impact on the health and wellbeing of the wider world

Our vision :

To build an influential global community that enables our Members to develop the skills, knowledge and influence to improve healthcare standards worldwide.

Our mission :

We want to enable our Members to achieve their full potential as healthcare professionals and give them an influential voice in the world.

Our values :

The College is not a building or a tradition, but a global community. In all that we do, we’re committed to putting our people first : Fellows and Members, those undertaking our education and assessment, colleagues and partners.

• Community Working together to support one another to succeed; listening to and engaging with partners and people, locally, nationally and globally, to achieve our core purpose.
• Integrity Valuing and learning from our heritage and commitment to excellence; never compromising on our core purpose, our standards and the quality of delivery.
• Innovation Proactively challenging current thinking with a forward-looking agile approach that meets the changing needs of our members and all those who interact with us.
• Inspiration Leading by example through open dialogue, teamwork and engagement to maximise our potential and affect change.
• Inclusivity Demonstrating care, kindness, civility, generosity and mutual respect through the way we welcome, work and interact with people.

For us, how we work is as important as what we do, and we aim to live by our values. They embody the essence of the College motto, conjurat amice , meaning ‘together in friendship’. It’s an approach that is as relevant today as it was 425 years ago.

The Role

The Finance Assistant is responsible to the Finance Manager for processing of financial transactions, reconciling the cashbook and other Balance Sheet and Income & Expenditure accounts, credit control, responding to and triaging queries made to the finance department, and liaising with the wider College team and external customers and suppliers.

The Finance Assistant will work across both College and 1599 Limited and liaise across all College teams, ensuring transactions are processed correctly and are reported accurately. Resolve any errors, liaising with the relevant teams to ensure corrections made were accurate. Liaise with Finance Manager to ensure corrections were processed correctly if necessary.

About You

The post-holder will require the following :

Essential

• A comprehensive and practical understanding of double entry bookkeeping
• Experience managing all or most of the following : bank reconciliation, sales ledger, purchase ledger, and general ledger
• Basic or intermediate MS Excel skills
• Experience of working with computerised accounting systems
• The ability to communicate with and build relationships with both non-financial staff members and external suppliers and customers

Desirable

• Basic MS Word skills
• Experience developing and improving processes and systems
• Credit control
• Direct Debit processing and management

Benefits include :

• 40 days holiday
• Hybrid working – at least 50% working in College, dependent on the needs of the business
• Pension Scheme – The College offers a contributory pension scheme with employee contributions ranging from 6% to 10%, based on the employee’s chosen contribution level
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Sick Pay, Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay
• Health and Wellbeing Benefit
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Successful candidates will have the requisite ability and experience to meet the specific requirements of the post. If you believe you have the skills to be part of our team then apply by submitting your CV, with a cover letter and Equal Opportunities Monitoring form (available from our website).

Please note that the College is unable to provide visa sponsorship. Therefore, candidates must already have the right to work in the UK.

Closing Date : Monday 12 January 2026

Interview Schedule :

Interviews are anticipated to be held w / c 19 January 2026.

An immediate start is preferable, though not essential. Please include your availability to start in your covering letter.

Any personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us in accordance with our recruitment processes. If unsuccessful in your application, your information will be held by us on our database for a period of 6 months before deletion.