Working Location: Hybrid Remote. Bristol Office Location & Home Working with a minimum of 1 day a week in the office location
Working Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday.
#Care to join us?
We are looking for a Senior Accounts Assistant to join our friendly and welcoming team here at Hft. This is your chance to make a real difference to people's lives.
Hft is one of the largest charities in England and Wales supporting people with learning disabilities. We are passionate about what we do and we use our unique understanding of the challenges facing the people we support to speak up for them to bring about positive change. We have a rich 60-year heritage and a clear vision, we are ambitious and wholly committed to what we can achieve for the people we support and have embarked on a journey of transformation that will ensure we can meet their changing needs and extend our reach and impact.
What will you be doing?
The Senior Accounts Assistant will support with the supplier payment processes, to ensure invoices are paid on time and in line with supplier agreements and are required to solve routine problems and be a point of contact for internal and external stakeholders.
They will be proficient in role with professional knowledge and expertise and will be responsible for sales and purchase ledger management: ensuring that transactions are entered accurately and promptly, in line with agreed policies and processes.
The Senior Accounts Assistant will make recommendations for continuous improvements to ways of working or processes and can deputise for the manager as needed.
About you
- You will have, be studying towards, or be willing to study towards a foundation qualification in accounting
- Experience and competence in Microsoft Office (particularly Word and Excel) with a willingness to learn further IT packages as required
- Experience of, and competence in, using a database and accurate data inputting
- Purchase Ledger and Sales Ledger experience within a P2P Purchase Ordering system
- Knowledge and experience using computerised accounting systems
- Strong IT knowledge, including experience of using Microsoft office suite
What’s in it for you?
There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training, and lots of support along the way.
With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation, we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible. As a ‘Gold’ standard Investors in People accredited employer, we are committed to supporting colleague wellbeing as a priority.
We offer:
- All Hft employees get access to the Telus Health – the world’s biggest 24/7 colleague counselling and support service. It is completely free for all colleagues to use in complete confidence, whenever and however they want to access it.
- Access to a range of discounts on your favourite brands through Telus Health
- Fully funded apprenticeships
- Access to award winning training and development – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status
- Wagestream – a free financial wellbeing tool
- Care Friends – a referral scheme (available from the 2nd October 2023)
- 33 days holidays (including 8 bank holidays)
- A contributory pension scheme & life assurance
- Free DBS check
- Free onsite parking
- Casual dress code
Find your place with us and change lives.
Job Description and Person Specification
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.
Hft's usual terms and conditions apply. Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.
We ask all our teams to take advantage of the Covid-19 vaccination, which is offered to frontline support workers as a priority group. We strongly encourage all colleagues to remain fully vaccinated as part of our wider infection control procedures.