Finance Officer Apprentice - Ark (absolute Return For Kids)

About the role

🚀 Finance Officer Apprentice 🚀

Ready to kickstart your finance career? 💼 This is your chance to dive headfirst into the world of finance with awesome hands-on experience in a supportive crew! We handle the finances for five different entities, so you'll get a taste of all sorts of financial processes, operations, and reporting. As our Finance Officer Apprentice, you'll be key to keeping our finance operations running smoothly across all Ark and Ventures entities. You'll build real skills in financial accounting, processing transactions, and the basics of financial reporting, plus jump into cool ad hoc finance projects that will boost your experience and your career. 📈

We're all about your growth! 🌱 You'll complete a fully funded Level 3 Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship. On top of your daily tasks, you'll get dedicated support and 6 hours of protected "Off-the-Job" learning time each week to help you smash your studies and build the knowledge, skills, and confidence for a killer finance career. 🌟

What you'll be doing:

Day-to-Day Finance Tasks (across all Ark and Venture entities):

• Keep our finance inboxes organized and sort out any issues. 📧
• Process purchase orders, supplier invoices, and employee expenses. 🧾
• Update our cashbooks daily for all bank accounts. 💰
• Handle weekly payment runs for suppliers and employee expenses. 💸
• Process donor income on Beacon and work with the fundraising team to match income with forecasts. 🤝
• Create and send sales invoices to customers and inter-company recharges. ✉️
• Reconcile supplier statements and chase up queries or overdue payments. 📞
• Update supplier and customer account details. 📁

Finance Projects & Process Improvements:

• Help implement our new finance system. 💻
• Support the finance team with ad hoc projects, month-end, and year-end tasks. ✨
• Contribute to making our finance processes even better. 👍

Key responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain finance mailboxes
• Process purchase orders, supplier invoices and employee expenses
• Prepare weekly payment runs for suppliers and employee expense claims
• Assist with ad hoc project work, month-end and year-end activities
• Support the implementation of the new finance system