Senior Finance Coordinator
Since 1962 the National Autistic Society has been campaigning to transform lives, change attitudes and create a society that works for autistic people. In National Programmes we champion the rights and interests of autistic people and their families, making sure national policy and legislation to reflect their needs. We provide autism training and best practice services and want all autistic people to have access to services and support that fully meet their needs. We provide diagnostic services, training, accreditation, consultancy and conferences, designed to support all professionals and organisations.
Visit our website to find out more about who we are and what we do: https://www.autism.org.uk/
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Who we are looking for:
We have an opportunity to join our Education Business Partnering team as a Senior Finance Coordinator. This is a newly created role reporting into the Education Finance Business Partner.
This role will cover the NAS Schools and NAS Central Services.
This is a home-based role and there is no requirement for regular travel, but there will be occasional opportunities to visit the services you work with, in order to familiarise yourself with them.
This is a full-time position for 35 hours per week. The salary for this position is £27,000 – 28,000
Key Responsibilities include:
Understanding and analysing the financial performance of schools, and communicating this to the operational management team, challenging variances to budget where appropriate.
Working with the School Business and Finance Managers to produce the annual budgets, as well as regular forecasting.
Ensuring accurate and timely accounting at a service level by regularly reviewing the accounts, posting month-end journals and correcting errors in source data and systems.
Producing costing models to support new and existing business, assisting with the annual fee uplift negotiation process.
As the role requires knowledge and understanding of accounting rules and standards, it is desirable that candidates hold an accounting qualification such as AAT, part-qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA, or other equivalent qualification. However, consideration will also be given to candidates who are qualified by experience in previous finance roles.
To view the job description please click here
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What we can offer you:
- Auto-enrolled Pension Scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Excellent induction, training and development programme including training about autism and opportunities to attend our conferences
- Online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits such as cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan & shopping discounts for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple and loads more!
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Life Assurance at 2 x base salary
- A portfolio of fantastic new salary sacrifices benefits and other flexible benefits private health, dental insurance, car salary sacrifice scheme, activity pass, holiday trading, enhanced pension & salary deduct loans (eligibility criteria may apply)
- Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme & counselling programme
- Free access to the Headspace App – a global leader in mindfulness and you can enrol up to three friends or family for free!
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card
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Where you will be working:
Home-based position
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About our application process:
When providing a supporting statement, please refer to the job description and person specification and include any information that shows your suitability for the role.
For more information about this job please contact insert: Graham, Connor, Finance Business Partner, Graham.Connor@nas.org.uk
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
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For some roles, successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks which will include additional references and criminal background checks.
Applications for this job are sought from anyone who is suitably qualified and experienced for the role but particularly welcome from those with a diagnosis of autism.
The National Autistic Society is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and adults who use our services and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks.
We are an equal opportunities employer. INDNPCS
