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    Disclaimer: I understand that if I want a policy that reflects the latest legislation and is appropriate tomy organisation, I will seek specialist legal advice. Policies, job descriptions and person specificationsare intended for guidance only and do not act as a substitute for professional advice. I understandthat if my organisation decides to rely on a document obtained from the NCVO's HRBank, it does soat its own risk.

    Finance and Admin Assistant

    Reporting to: Finance and Office Manager

    Hours: 16 hours per week (preferably 3 hours per day, 4 days per week)

    Salary: XXX pa (inc London weighting), pro rata for 12 hours

    Location: XXX

    Benefits: 6% pension contribution, season ticket loan, 25 days holidays (pro rata for 12hours), bank holidays (pro rata for 12 hours). Additionally, the office closesfor the 3 days between Christmas and New Year and the postholder will bepaid for any hours usually worked on these days

    Other benefits: Flexible working hours, opportunity to work extra hours at busy timeswith either paid overtime or time off in lieu at quiet times (eg over the schoolsummer holidays)

    Job summary

    The Finance and Admin Assistant will provide a range of reception, administration and financialadministration support to the Finance and Office Manager.

    Key objectives

    To support the effective running of a small, busy office through a range of reception and

    administration duties.

    To assist with the financial administration of the charity and with processing orders.

    To represent positively and promote the charity and its work in all dealings, both internal and

    external.

    Key responsibilities

    Reception and administration

    To open, date-stamp, sort and distribute the post, and frank post for collection.

    To dispatch standard information to enquirers.

    To alert the Finance and Office Manager when stocks of standard information are running low and

    photocopy information as required.

    To assist with telephones (both live calls and voicemail messages) dealing with routine, basic

    enquiries, forwarding calls to staff or their individual voicemails, and taking down and passing onmessages where necessary.

    To assist with maintaining the database, transferring online entries via a spreadsheet and

    undertaking data entry as time permits.

    To assist with general office management eg checking supplies of stationery, copier paper and

    postage for the franking machine, keeping storage areas tidy.

    To assist with general reception eg overseeing fire alarm testing, organising courier collections

    and deliveries, distributing and sending faxes, welcoming visitors to the office.

    To provide clerical support as time permits eg copying and collating papers for meetings.

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    Financial administration

    To list cheques received prior to banking.

    To prepare cheques for signatures.

    To prepare monthly bank reconciliations.

    To check BACS transactions, reconciling remittance advices with invoices.

    To assist with credit control, checking aged debtors and chasing debtors for payment.

    To assist with cashflow, updating the cashflow spreadsheet with actual transactions.

    To assist with sales order processing, including taking credit card orders over the telephone and

    providing other support to the Finance and Office Manager as needed.

    To assist with archiving the finance records.

    General

    To attend and participate in internal meetings, as appropriate.

    To develop a personal knowledge base of the work of the charity, to underpin effective support toenquirers.

    To ensure that the charitys equal opportunities and diversity policies are followed through in all

    aspects of work.

    Person specification

    E = EssentialD = Desirable

    Knowledge and experience:

    Experience of office and financial administration E

    Experience of dealing with telephone enquiries E

    Skills and abilities:

    Conscientious approach and excellent attention to detail E

    Flexibility and organisational skills, in order to deal with a range of tasks and E

    competing demands and meet deadlines

    Good telephone manner and customer care skills, able to absorb and give out E

    information clearly and remain calm under pressure

    Good inter-personal skills, able to work well with people at all levels, including Estaff, enquirers, customers, suppliers and visitors to the office

    Good numeracy, in order to prepare bank reconciliations E

    Good standard of literacy, spelling and handwriting, in order to write cheques and E

    correspondence accurately and legibly, and record messages correctly

    Proficient in using Microsoft Word, Excel and email E

    Proficient in using the Sage finance package D

    Proficient in data entry using a database D

    Personal qualities:

    Team player with proven ability to work on own initiative E

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