Finance Assistant

Single Homeless Project; London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading charity as a Finance Assistant in London, where you'll play a vital role in financial processes while supporting the mission to prevent homelessness. This full-time, permanent position offers a competitive salary and a collaborative environment that promotes learning and growth.

Benefits

A salary increase after six months' probation

25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days

5% contributory pension scheme

Staff Health Cash Plan

Comprehensive training programme

Qualifications

• Attention to detail and numeracy skills required.
• Experience with a computerised accounting system is desirable.
• Good team player with initiative.

Responsibilities

• Processing invoices, payments, and other transactions.
• Maintaining financial records and ensuring data accuracy.
• Supporting the Accountant and Finance Team with administrative tasks.

Skills

Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills

Good communication skills

Attention to detail

Good numeracy skills

Ability to work on own initiative

Organisational skills

Tools

Computerised accounting system

Job description

2 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Single Homeless Project have a new opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join our team based in Kings Cross. You will join us on a full time, permanent?basis, working 37.5 hours and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of starting at £27,007.50 and rising incrementally to £28,953.79 per annum.

Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.?We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change.?

From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across London boroughs.

About The Finance Assistant Role

Join a purpose-driven organisation where your passion for finance can truly make an impact. We're looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Finance Assistant to become an integral part of our dynamic Finance Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and gain broad experience across all aspects of the organisation's accounts, working in a supportive and collaborative environment that values growth, learning, and contribution.

In this vital role, you'll support the Accountant and the wider Finance Team with a variety of finance-related processes and administrative tasks. Your work will include processing invoices, payments, rent receipts, and other transactions - ensuring accuracy and timeliness from the very first point of data entry. You'll be the go-to for handling queries, maintaining records, and helping to ensure the financial data we produce is not only precise but also adds real value to decision-making across Single Homeless Project (SHP). This role plays a key part in delivering high-quality transactional data that underpins everything from day-to-day operations to strategic planning and successful financial audits.

If you're looking to grow your finance career within a forward-thinking and socially impactful organisation, this is your chance to be part of something meaningful.

About You

• Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Good numeracy skills and an understanding of double entry book keeping.
• Good team player with ability to work on own initiative.
• Demonstrable ability to use a computerised accounting system with specific ability to manage a large purchase and sales ledger.
• Good organisational, record keeping and time management skills.
  
  

Our Attractive Benefits Package Includes

• A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work
  
  

Closing date: Sunday 22nd June at midnight

Don't miss out on this great opportunity to join the Single Homeless Project team – please click ‘apply' now to become our Finance Assistant -we'd like to hear from you!

PLEASE NOTE:We will invite suitable candidates to interview as applications are received before the stated closing date above. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient and suitable applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

This post will require a DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.

Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces. We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

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