Finance Assistant
Location: Brighton
Salary: £12.21 per hour
Brighton College are seeking to appoint a Finance Assistant on a fixed-term placement for one year, with the possibility of an extension to the contract or a permanent position, starting in August 2025.
Main Purpose of the Role: To assist with the efficient running of the Finance department.
General Duties and Responsibilities
- Monitoring of accounts and credit card mailboxes, whilst dealing with incoming queries.
- Support the month end process, including journals and recharges
- Performing monthly reconciliations for key balance sheet accounts.
- Budget holder administration.
- Assisting the Management Accountant with utility accrual calculations (including data
- entering).
- Assist with the Purchase Ledger.
- Banking tasks; cash counting and paying in (catering & charity).
- Assist the Credit Controller with posting of incoming payments and issuing receipts.
- Assisting with year-end audit.
- Bill run assistance (to include inputting of charges, checking of bills, deposit refund process, taxi recharges).
- Trip management: set up trip codes and ensure back up documents in place, monthly reconciliations are completed and manage trip floats.
- Any other reasonable management requests.
Person Specifications
The successful candidate will have:
- Excellent communication skills
- Good time management skills.
- The ability to work both alone and in a team.
- A polite, friendly and helpful attitude.
- Positive collaboration, with an ability to bring out the best in those around them.
- An infectious "can do" attitude.
- Be proficient in working with ICT in a professional environment, including good typing skills.
- A strong working knowledge of Word and Excel (essential).
Hours of Work
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.00pm with a 60-minute unpaid lunch break (37.5 hours per week).
Remuneration
The rate of pay for this role will be £12.21 per hour.
Holidays
23 days, plus bank holidays increasing to 28 days plus bank holidays after 2 years of service.
Benefits
- Contributory pension scheme with matching contributions from the employer up to 9%, which all eligible employees will be automatically enrolled into within three months of commencement of employment.
- Life Cover is provided whilst working at Brighton College after successfully passing probation period.
- Complimentary lunch is provided.
- Free tickets to the College’s music, dance and drama performances.
- Job specific learning and development programme available to all employees.
- Employee benefit and rewards platform with a wide range of discounts, employee benefits and wellbeing resources.
Wellbeing
- Subsidised gym membership for the School of Science and Sport is available, which includes access to yoga and pilates classes, meditation sessions and use of the gym and swimming pool.
- Personalised health and wellbeing consultations.
- Generous sickness policy.
- Access to books, magazines and DVDs from the College Library.
- Comprehensive wellbeing package.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Brighton College, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.