Finance Team Leader

About the job

The Workforce Development Trust

The Workforce Development Trust is a not-for-profit organisation that provides services that support employers to develop skilled, sustainable, and efficient workforces in the UK and abroad. We operate via our four brands; Skills for Health, Skills for Justice, SFJ Awards, iCQ Awards and People 1st International, which deliver specialist, targeted skills interventions to support a variety of frontline public services.

Job summary

This is a Bristol Office based role and a great opportunity for someone looking for a hands-on role within a finance team to gain experience and manage a team. The post holder’s primary responsibilities will be to manage the transactional finance team, overseeing the accounts receivable, accounts payable, credit control and other controllership team activities such as but not limited to bank reconciliations and income and expenditure contracts.

The post holder is responsible for the provision of a professional and efficient range of finance support as part of the Finance Team, reporting into the Financial Controller and ensuring that the service requirements are complied with accurately and on time and are delivered in a professional, customer focused way.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that financial information is processed in accordance with the Financial Control Framework, providing advice as required.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the accounts payable, accounts receivable and credit control team for the business. Overseeing that the functions run smoothly and being the first point of contact for the team and the business in these areas. This is for all the businesses within WDT, involving 2 separate systems.
• Reviewing Aged Debtors monthly and assisting with credit control and taking ownership for any debts that need to be escalated.
• Managing that sales invoices are raised accurately and on time.
• Reviewing regular supplier payment runs, ensuring invoices are processed accurately, are in line with contracts and paid on time.
• Manage the processing of employee expenses for payroll each month, reviewing to ensure they are inline with policy.
• Manage the credit cards for the business ensuring they are used within policy and all receipts received.
• Process FX revaluation in the Finance System each month.
• Oversee bank accounts for the business, reviewing balances and managing transfers.
• Income Contracts – Be the main contact for the raising and issuing of income contracts for the business, responsible for following up with customers for signature and Purchase Order numbers and maintaining an accurate register of all income contracts to ensure all income is being captured and invoiced, working closely with the Sales Team.
• Expenditure Contracts – Oversee the expenditure contracts process, ensuring contracts are issued timely, comply with IR35 and are always in place where necessary.
• Feedback any issues to the Financial Controller.
• Cover for other members of the Finance Team as required for leave, etc, for example Accounts Payable/Receivable.

Bristol office with hybrid working available.

Salary: £33,000-£36,500 per annum. Full time (37.5 hrs) permanent role.

Download the full JD here and our job pack here.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement of up to 25 days per year with additional days’ leave awarded for each continuous year of service up to a maximum of 28 days, plus eight public holidays and a potential Christmas closure.
• The WDT also provides enhanced maternity, paternity and sickness leaves, alongside this we provide bereavement leave and carers leave.
• Health and wellbeing benefits, which include access to our mental health first aiders, a confidential employee assistance programme, free eye tests and payment for an annual flu jab.
• Pension scheme with a minimum contribution of 4% to a maximum contribution of 6%, matched by the company, along with death in service coverage at three times annual salary.
• Flexible employee benefits, including a portal providing hundreds of discounts, including a cycle to work scheme which is available upon successful completion of probation period, as well as a dress for your day approach to working.
• Frequent organisational development days and departmental training budgets.
• Payroll giving, this is a tax-free way to donate to any charity, good cause or place of worship.

The Workforce Development Trust is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone.

We strongly encourage people of all gender, religion, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and individuals with disabilities to apply.

If you need any reasonable adjustments at any point, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to advise on your pronouns, for example she/her, he/him, they/them etc.

How to apply

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