Finance Assistant – Suppliers and Purchasing

Finance

Head Office, Alloa / Remote Working

Permanent

Hours: 18.5 or 21hrs per week (Wednesday– Friday)

Appointed: £24,240 / Confirmed: £24,592 / Advanced: £25,661 pro rata

Reference: SA/680

About us:

Scottish Autism is dedicated to enabling autistic people to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives. We believe in the power of relationships to transform the lives of the people we support..

A key expectation of everyone who works for Scottish Autism is that they live and breathe our values; Collaboration, Change Makers, Compassion and Contribution. Our values come into play throughout everything we do at work – how we work together, and how we deliver services to the people we support and to the people we work alongside.

The Finance team works collaboratively with all its stakeholders, actively looking for opportunities to improve its delivery of financial reporting, know-how, analysis and insight to support the organisation’s delivery of financial sustainability, performance targets and outstanding services. 

About the job:

We have a part time Finance Assistant – Suppliers and Purchasing opportunity within our Finance team. Reporting to the Senior Finance Officer, you will deliver an efficient, effective, purchase ledger and payments service to the business, as well as supporting the finance team in processing, monitoring and reconciling credit cards, prepaid cards, petty cash and other ad-hoc payment transactions.

In this role you will:

• Ensure invoices have appropriate authorisation and are processed efficiently and accurately.
• Prepare of regular payment runs ensuring suppliers are paid in accordance with agreed payment terms.
• Monitor and reconcile credit card transactions.
• Process new suppliers and monitor checks in line with procedures.
• Provide administrative support for the wider team.

About You:

You will be:

• Collaborative, actively seeking to contribute to the collective success of the team
• Customer focused, with a passion for understanding customers’ needs and going the extra mile to meet those needs
• A change maker, always looking for ways to improve processes and service levels, and to add value
• An excellent communicator
• Resilient, with the ability to change approach as circumstances change
• Accurate with excellent attention to detail.

You will have experience in a similar or equivalent role with practical application of accounting regulations. You will be proficient in the use of specialist financial systems and Microsoft applications in particular Excel.

Scottish Autism offers you:

• 32 days holiday pro rata (which increases with your length of service)
• Non-contributory life assurance scheme
• Workplace Pension (matched up to 9%)
• Wellbeing Support
• Discounts at high street retailers, travel and gyms

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure check.

Be Here, Be You, Create Change

Closing Date: Friday 27^th September 2024 at 12 noon

Interview Date: Wednesday 2^nd October 2024

Valuing diversity and promoting equal opportunities is at the heart of our vision, mission and values. We encourage and welcome applications from people with lived experience of autism.

Registered charity number is SC009068.