We are looking for Trustees, including a new Chair of Trustees. Working for Gardeners ( Working for Gardeners ) is a registered Charity and membership organisation dedicated to practical horticultural training and advancing the interests of gardeners and horticulturists across the UK. We have an active community of around 1500 members, exchanging practical horticultural knowledge and interest. Many of our members are of course also members of other horticultural institutions such as the RHS, and see Working for Gardeners as a complementary source of hands-in-the-soil community and further training. We collaborate with an evolving network of significant private and public gardens across the UK to offer practical experience through one-day specialist workshops and through year-long paid placements for aspiring gardeners under our well-respected professional development programme, the Work and Retrain as a Gardener (WRAG) Scheme. Our Financial Position Our Charity is in good financial health, with decent cash reserves and fairly balanced revenue streams, mainly from membership subscriptions, our practical workshop and skills programme and from the WRAG Scheme. We also have a small number of generous donors, and are looking to develop this support further. Our Charity's direct annual revenue is around £200,000 and we operate typically close to break-even, with a small central office team based in South Gloucestershire and a 20-strong UK-wide paid, part-time team across the UK who promote and manage our relationships with garden partners and our membership community. However, our financial footprint is more in the region of £1.3 million, taking account of the annual income (at national living wage) paid to our WRAG Scheme trainees under the garden placements that we organise with our partner gardens. Given the strong demand for our WRAG Scheme traineeships and indeed across our practical horticultural workshops, we are looking to expand the depth of our reach across Great Britain, including through developing a greater bursary scheme. We are currently investing in the underpinnings for this careful expansion, including upgrading and finetuning our branding, marketing, web, and IT systems. Role of Chair of Trustees As Chair, you will provide strong strategic and hands-on leadership across the Charity, marshalling our team to fulfil our educational mission and representing our Charity to the broader community. This is a voluntary position that requires commitment, vision, and strong leadership skills. Our Chair and trustees tend to be quite hands-on, working closely with our Executive Officer and our office and Regional Manager team across the UK. Key Responsibilities of our Chair Chair our small Board of 5-6 pro bono trustees, ensuring effective governance and compliance with relevant legislation and best practice. Ensure clear multi-year vision and strong execution of our rolling plan, working with our other trustees and Executive Officer. In conjunction with our Treasurer, provide regular guidance to our Executive Officer, who is responsible for the day-to-day execution of our multi-year strategic plan and budget. Be our primary spokesperson and ambassador, building our profile and relationships with our membership, garden partners, donors, horticultural sector, media and other key stakeholders more broadly. This Chair role will typically require commitment of 3-5 hours per week across regular guidance for our Executive Officer, Board meetings and external representation. The initial term is for 3 years, with a further 3 years possible. Ideal Profile of Chair We are looking for a Chair who is, or has enjoyed being, a respected and energetic leader with a strong strategic mindset, not afraid to roll up their sleeves when needed, and comfortable in an organisation of our scale even if they have worked in larger organisations. The ideal candidate will definitely have a keen interest in horticulture, whether personally or professionally, and will probably have a decent network of contacts and profile in gardening, horticultural, or professional services sectors. They will likely have some experience with chairing boards, committees, or similar governance bodies whether in the not-for-profit, corporate, or public sector, and a good understanding of charity governance and trustee responsibilities. Experience in fundraising and marketing would be a plus. Ideal Profile of Other Trustees Our current trustees all live and breathe a great passion for things horticultural in a broad sense, including continuing education in our sector, but also bring a great variety of professional and personal backgrounds to the table - in further education; international finance; politics; gardening and flower farming; marketing; HR and other areas of business and charities. We are looking to enhance this diversity and collaborative enthusiasm, ideally bringing deeper experience particularly in areas of marketing and fundraising. How to Apply (Deadline: Friday 5th June 2026) If you would love to join our enthusiastic group of trustees given your talents and interests, please submit to our current Chair with a covering letter explaining your motivation and relevant experience, including your CV or similar profile and indicating clearly whether you would also like to assume the Chair role. We would hope to appoint our new Chair and trustees within the next 2-3 months. Working for Gardeners is committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups. Our Story Founded in 1899 as the Women's Farm and Garden Association, our Charity's original focus was on addressing the lack of education and employment opportunities for women working on the land. Membership was initially only open to women with a keen interest in the land, farming, gardening and allied industries. Many of our founder members were professional women working in education, gardening, farming and small holdings. The Association set about establishing training courses and examinations, with an Employment Bureau offering a service for both employers and employees. At the outbreak of the First World War, we responded to the shortage of labour on the land by launching the 'Women's National Land Service Corps' to offer work placements to women, both rural and urban. The success of this movement soon saw it outgrow a small but plucky voluntary organisation and the Government stepped in - the first Women's Land Army was born. Between the wars, against the backdrop of difficult years of recession, we worked hard to improve the working conditions and status of women in land work and to open up employment training opportunities. We launched a significant training scheme for practical horticultural skills during the Second World War and subsequently extended this to initiate a Garden Apprentice Scheme specifically for school leavers - which led to the development of Government Youth Training Schemes. Throughout this time, the Association exhibited at many agricultural and horticultural shows, promoting the need for training and giving out information and career guidance. In 1993, we established the 'Women Returners to Amenity Gardening Scheme' to offer more mature students, often career changers or 'returners' who were considering a career in horticulture, training in practical gardening skills within private and public gardens throughout the United Kingdom. In 2014, we updated the name to 'Work and Retrain As a Gardener', reflecting the broader audience that had developed. Our WRAG Scheme is now established as one of the UK's leading practical gardening training schemes, highly respected by the horticultural sector. Each year, we place around 150 aspiring gardeners, mainly career changers, in wonderful gardens across the UK where the skilled owners or their head gardeners have the expertise to offer practical paid experience and training for 1 or 2 years. Many of these trainees are lucky enough to form strong relationships with their team in these gardens and are offered ongoing employment, while many others go on to other roles in horticulture or set up their own gardening businesses. Quite a few of our gardens take on new WRAG Scheme trainees each year. All of this makes us very happy, but it does mean that we continually need to bring new gardens into our community, and we have considerable waiting lists of trainees in most regions in Britain. Our main imperative is to therefore build more and deeper ongoing partnerships with significant gardens across the UK that can offer the breadth of hands-in-the
Jun 19, 2026
Full time
We are looking for Trustees, including a new Chair of Trustees. Working for Gardeners ( Working for Gardeners ) is a registered Charity and membership organisation dedicated to practical horticultural training and advancing the interests of gardeners and horticulturists across the UK. We have an active community of around 1500 members, exchanging practical horticultural knowledge and interest. Many of our members are of course also members of other horticultural institutions such as the RHS, and see Working for Gardeners as a complementary source of hands-in-the-soil community and further training. We collaborate with an evolving network of significant private and public gardens across the UK to offer practical experience through one-day specialist workshops and through year-long paid placements for aspiring gardeners under our well-respected professional development programme, the Work and Retrain as a Gardener (WRAG) Scheme. Our Financial Position Our Charity is in good financial health, with decent cash reserves and fairly balanced revenue streams, mainly from membership subscriptions, our practical workshop and skills programme and from the WRAG Scheme. We also have a small number of generous donors, and are looking to develop this support further. Our Charity's direct annual revenue is around £200,000 and we operate typically close to break-even, with a small central office team based in South Gloucestershire and a 20-strong UK-wide paid, part-time team across the UK who promote and manage our relationships with garden partners and our membership community. However, our financial footprint is more in the region of £1.3 million, taking account of the annual income (at national living wage) paid to our WRAG Scheme trainees under the garden placements that we organise with our partner gardens. Given the strong demand for our WRAG Scheme traineeships and indeed across our practical horticultural workshops, we are looking to expand the depth of our reach across Great Britain, including through developing a greater bursary scheme. We are currently investing in the underpinnings for this careful expansion, including upgrading and finetuning our branding, marketing, web, and IT systems. Role of Chair of Trustees As Chair, you will provide strong strategic and hands-on leadership across the Charity, marshalling our team to fulfil our educational mission and representing our Charity to the broader community. This is a voluntary position that requires commitment, vision, and strong leadership skills. Our Chair and trustees tend to be quite hands-on, working closely with our Executive Officer and our office and Regional Manager team across the UK. Key Responsibilities of our Chair Chair our small Board of 5-6 pro bono trustees, ensuring effective governance and compliance with relevant legislation and best practice. Ensure clear multi-year vision and strong execution of our rolling plan, working with our other trustees and Executive Officer. In conjunction with our Treasurer, provide regular guidance to our Executive Officer, who is responsible for the day-to-day execution of our multi-year strategic plan and budget. Be our primary spokesperson and ambassador, building our profile and relationships with our membership, garden partners, donors, horticultural sector, media and other key stakeholders more broadly. This Chair role will typically require commitment of 3-5 hours per week across regular guidance for our Executive Officer, Board meetings and external representation. The initial term is for 3 years, with a further 3 years possible. Ideal Profile of Chair We are looking for a Chair who is, or has enjoyed being, a respected and energetic leader with a strong strategic mindset, not afraid to roll up their sleeves when needed, and comfortable in an organisation of our scale even if they have worked in larger organisations. The ideal candidate will definitely have a keen interest in horticulture, whether personally or professionally, and will probably have a decent network of contacts and profile in gardening, horticultural, or professional services sectors. They will likely have some experience with chairing boards, committees, or similar governance bodies whether in the not-for-profit, corporate, or public sector, and a good understanding of charity governance and trustee responsibilities. Experience in fundraising and marketing would be a plus. Ideal Profile of Other Trustees Our current trustees all live and breathe a great passion for things horticultural in a broad sense, including continuing education in our sector, but also bring a great variety of professional and personal backgrounds to the table - in further education; international finance; politics; gardening and flower farming; marketing; HR and other areas of business and charities. We are looking to enhance this diversity and collaborative enthusiasm, ideally bringing deeper experience particularly in areas of marketing and fundraising. How to Apply (Deadline: Friday 5th June 2026) If you would love to join our enthusiastic group of trustees given your talents and interests, please submit to our current Chair with a covering letter explaining your motivation and relevant experience, including your CV or similar profile and indicating clearly whether you would also like to assume the Chair role. We would hope to appoint our new Chair and trustees within the next 2-3 months. Working for Gardeners is committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups. Our Story Founded in 1899 as the Women's Farm and Garden Association, our Charity's original focus was on addressing the lack of education and employment opportunities for women working on the land. Membership was initially only open to women with a keen interest in the land, farming, gardening and allied industries. Many of our founder members were professional women working in education, gardening, farming and small holdings. The Association set about establishing training courses and examinations, with an Employment Bureau offering a service for both employers and employees. At the outbreak of the First World War, we responded to the shortage of labour on the land by launching the 'Women's National Land Service Corps' to offer work placements to women, both rural and urban. The success of this movement soon saw it outgrow a small but plucky voluntary organisation and the Government stepped in - the first Women's Land Army was born. Between the wars, against the backdrop of difficult years of recession, we worked hard to improve the working conditions and status of women in land work and to open up employment training opportunities. We launched a significant training scheme for practical horticultural skills during the Second World War and subsequently extended this to initiate a Garden Apprentice Scheme specifically for school leavers - which led to the development of Government Youth Training Schemes. Throughout this time, the Association exhibited at many agricultural and horticultural shows, promoting the need for training and giving out information and career guidance. In 1993, we established the 'Women Returners to Amenity Gardening Scheme' to offer more mature students, often career changers or 'returners' who were considering a career in horticulture, training in practical gardening skills within private and public gardens throughout the United Kingdom. In 2014, we updated the name to 'Work and Retrain As a Gardener', reflecting the broader audience that had developed. Our WRAG Scheme is now established as one of the UK's leading practical gardening training schemes, highly respected by the horticultural sector. Each year, we place around 150 aspiring gardeners, mainly career changers, in wonderful gardens across the UK where the skilled owners or their head gardeners have the expertise to offer practical paid experience and training for 1 or 2 years. Many of these trainees are lucky enough to form strong relationships with their team in these gardens and are offered ongoing employment, while many others go on to other roles in horticulture or set up their own gardening businesses. Quite a few of our gardens take on new WRAG Scheme trainees each year. All of this makes us very happy, but it does mean that we continually need to bring new gardens into our community, and we have considerable waiting lists of trainees in most regions in Britain. Our main imperative is to therefore build more and deeper ongoing partnerships with significant gardens across the UK that can offer the breadth of hands-in-the
RM Recruit are working with a Christian charity who are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Officer to join their finance team on a full-time, permanent basis. This role is based in their Solihull office Monday Friday and is an excellent opportunity for an individual looking to develop their career within a supportive and collaborative finance function. The client is open to candidates with no finance experience who are seeking to build and develop their accounting career. The Finance Officer will support a broad range of core accounting activities, contribute to process improvements, and work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting. Key Responsibilities Support core accounting tasks, including daily bank reconciliations, monthly credit card reconciliations, and other balance sheet reconciliations. Contribute to the monthly balance sheet reconciliation process, ensuring timely sign-off by the Financial Controller. This will include involvement in ongoing process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and strengthen financial controls. Prepare and process payment schedules and invoices, ensuring VAT reports and payments are accurate and compliant with organisational controls. Assist with the preparation of financial reports for both internal and external stakeholders. Support the preparation of statutory annual accounts for audits and Charity Commission filings. Manage external vendor records, ensuring correct onboarding procedures are followed and supplier transaction controls are adhered to. Produce supplier statements and aged creditor reports for the regional hub. Support Budget Holders with budget preparation and reporting, assisting regional operations teams with finance-related queries and promoting best financial practice across the organisation. Person Specification Strong attention to detail Possess the ability to meet deadlines Possess a collaborative approach Please note, the organisation has a requirement for all team members to be a practising Christian. There is a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) for this role to be filled by a practising Christian as per the organisations Statement of Faith and day to day prayer-based activity involved. The benefits package includes Double matched pension contribution, Private medical insurance, life insurance, gym access, and free parking. RM Recruit is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and will treat all applicants equally irrespective of sex, sexual orientation, marital/civil partnership status, age, disability, race, religion, pregnancy, ethnic or national origin.
Jun 15, 2026
Full time
RM Recruit are working with a Christian charity who are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Officer to join their finance team on a full-time, permanent basis. This role is based in their Solihull office Monday Friday and is an excellent opportunity for an individual looking to develop their career within a supportive and collaborative finance function. The client is open to candidates with no finance experience who are seeking to build and develop their accounting career. The Finance Officer will support a broad range of core accounting activities, contribute to process improvements, and work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting. Key Responsibilities Support core accounting tasks, including daily bank reconciliations, monthly credit card reconciliations, and other balance sheet reconciliations. Contribute to the monthly balance sheet reconciliation process, ensuring timely sign-off by the Financial Controller. This will include involvement in ongoing process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and strengthen financial controls. Prepare and process payment schedules and invoices, ensuring VAT reports and payments are accurate and compliant with organisational controls. Assist with the preparation of financial reports for both internal and external stakeholders. Support the preparation of statutory annual accounts for audits and Charity Commission filings. Manage external vendor records, ensuring correct onboarding procedures are followed and supplier transaction controls are adhered to. Produce supplier statements and aged creditor reports for the regional hub. Support Budget Holders with budget preparation and reporting, assisting regional operations teams with finance-related queries and promoting best financial practice across the organisation. Person Specification Strong attention to detail Possess the ability to meet deadlines Possess a collaborative approach Please note, the organisation has a requirement for all team members to be a practising Christian. There is a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) for this role to be filled by a practising Christian as per the organisations Statement of Faith and day to day prayer-based activity involved. The benefits package includes Double matched pension contribution, Private medical insurance, life insurance, gym access, and free parking. RM Recruit is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and will treat all applicants equally irrespective of sex, sexual orientation, marital/civil partnership status, age, disability, race, religion, pregnancy, ethnic or national origin.
Rise Executive Search And Recruitment Ltd
Glen Parva, Leicestershire
Finance Assistant Negotiable Salary £26K to £30K + bonus & excellent benefits, hybrid working option 2 days per week, free on-site parking. Rise Executive Search are excited to be working with our Client, a global organisation based in Leicestershire. Due to expansion, this is a newly created role for a Finance Assistant to join a busy and vibrant team where no day is the same. You must have experience working within a finance team, maybe be an AAT level 2 (not higher. Supporting the Accounting and Administration Officer, this role will be reporting to the Head of Finance and will offer the opportunity of varied experience in the finance and accounting department along with the continued development of the successful candidate. Specific duties: Sending out purchase ledger invoices for authorisation Take received invoices and upload into SAP accounts payable Upload internal expenses into SAP accounts payable Assist in processing payment runs on a weekly basis Send out remittance advices for payment where necessary Filing of invoices and expenses Preparing reports such as carbon footprint report and cost centre reports Maintain business mileage and expenses accruals spreadsheets Maintaining spreadsheets for Tax pack analysis Some minor IT content such as sourcing, registering and setting up of laptops & workstations. Liaising with main IT Team where required. Liaise with internal & external business partners Ad-hoc administration support to the rest of the team. Personal Attributes / Experience: Experience in supporting finance activities An overall understanding of purchase ledger SAP experience or similar An interest in IT to some extent would be ideal Well organised with a professional approach to customers Excellent written and spoken communication Highly self-motivated and disciplined Logical approach to problem solving and solutions approach to task management The ability to be flexible and adaptable to change Post codes used are for advertising purposes only and do not reflect the location of the employer. To register your interest contact us with an up to date CV and we will be pleased to call you for a confidential discussion. To view more of our positions click on the Rise logo at the top of this page. We work across a range of business to business/B2B market sectors including Renewable Energy, Electrical, Control & Automation, Electronic, Renewable Energy, Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Fluid Power, Instrumentation, Engineering services companies, Industrial Consumables, Industrial Components, Capital Equipment, Material Handling, Scientific Equipment, Petrochemical and Utilities. Rise Executive Search & Recruitment Ltd are currently working on a wide range of business to business/B2B sales positions, account management, business development and sales management roles including: Sales Manager, UK Sales Manager, National Sales Manager, Country Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Area Sales Manager, Sales Executive, Senior Sales Executive, National Account Manager, Business Development Manager, Key Account Manager, Account Executive, National Account Executive, Sales Specialist, Global Account Manager, Sales Representative, Territory Sales, Field Sales, Client Relationship Manager, Sales Engineer, Sales Consultant, Technical Sales, Senior Sales Engineer, Export Sales, International Sales, European Sales, Branch Manager, Sales Director, Trainee Sales, Graduate Sales, Telesales, Internal Sales, Office Sales, Finance Office, Head of Finance, Finance Support, Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, HR Manager.
Jun 15, 2026
Full time
Finance Assistant Negotiable Salary £26K to £30K + bonus & excellent benefits, hybrid working option 2 days per week, free on-site parking. Rise Executive Search are excited to be working with our Client, a global organisation based in Leicestershire. Due to expansion, this is a newly created role for a Finance Assistant to join a busy and vibrant team where no day is the same. You must have experience working within a finance team, maybe be an AAT level 2 (not higher. Supporting the Accounting and Administration Officer, this role will be reporting to the Head of Finance and will offer the opportunity of varied experience in the finance and accounting department along with the continued development of the successful candidate. Specific duties: Sending out purchase ledger invoices for authorisation Take received invoices and upload into SAP accounts payable Upload internal expenses into SAP accounts payable Assist in processing payment runs on a weekly basis Send out remittance advices for payment where necessary Filing of invoices and expenses Preparing reports such as carbon footprint report and cost centre reports Maintain business mileage and expenses accruals spreadsheets Maintaining spreadsheets for Tax pack analysis Some minor IT content such as sourcing, registering and setting up of laptops & workstations. Liaising with main IT Team where required. Liaise with internal & external business partners Ad-hoc administration support to the rest of the team. Personal Attributes / Experience: Experience in supporting finance activities An overall understanding of purchase ledger SAP experience or similar An interest in IT to some extent would be ideal Well organised with a professional approach to customers Excellent written and spoken communication Highly self-motivated and disciplined Logical approach to problem solving and solutions approach to task management The ability to be flexible and adaptable to change Post codes used are for advertising purposes only and do not reflect the location of the employer. To register your interest contact us with an up to date CV and we will be pleased to call you for a confidential discussion. To view more of our positions click on the Rise logo at the top of this page. We work across a range of business to business/B2B market sectors including Renewable Energy, Electrical, Control & Automation, Electronic, Renewable Energy, Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Fluid Power, Instrumentation, Engineering services companies, Industrial Consumables, Industrial Components, Capital Equipment, Material Handling, Scientific Equipment, Petrochemical and Utilities. Rise Executive Search & Recruitment Ltd are currently working on a wide range of business to business/B2B sales positions, account management, business development and sales management roles including: Sales Manager, UK Sales Manager, National Sales Manager, Country Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Area Sales Manager, Sales Executive, Senior Sales Executive, National Account Manager, Business Development Manager, Key Account Manager, Account Executive, National Account Executive, Sales Specialist, Global Account Manager, Sales Representative, Territory Sales, Field Sales, Client Relationship Manager, Sales Engineer, Sales Consultant, Technical Sales, Senior Sales Engineer, Export Sales, International Sales, European Sales, Branch Manager, Sales Director, Trainee Sales, Graduate Sales, Telesales, Internal Sales, Office Sales, Finance Office, Head of Finance, Finance Support, Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, HR Manager.
Finance Officer Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work for an organisation that makes a difference A rare opportunity has arisen to join a small and vibrant finance team working with the Diocese in Oxford. We are looking to recruit a brand-new position to contribute to the day to day running of the Diocese Board of Finance (ODBF) where your contribution will have a huge impact. Position: Finance Officer - Operations Location: Kidlington, Oxford/Hybrid Hours: 37 hours per week Salary: £36,475.31 - £39,281.10 Contract: Permanent Closing Date: Sunday 5 October 2025 at midnight Interview Date: Monday 20 October 2025, Oxford The Role In this role, you will support the Finance Manager in providing a proactive, efficient, and highly effective finance service across the Diocesan Board of Finance and Trust custodian company, as well as supporting the larger finance team who look after the Board of Education. The role will be diverse, starting with managing the day-to-day functions but also assisting in all areas of the finance function, including bank reconciliations, VAT, forecasting and reporting. You will play a key role within a Finance department totalling 9 staff, with input into the future running and design of how the department continues to move forward and grow. About You We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated accountant or trainee accountant (or a financially astute individual with relevant experience) to join the friendly team in the Finance function. You will embrace the challenge that such a varied role brings. With proven experience in producing timely, high-quality and accurate financial information, your can-do approach to work will inspire you to deliver excellent, meaningful financial reports that will have high impact for stakeholders. You will be flexible in your working style, have strong numerical proficiency, confident communication skills, and excellent organisational and monitoring abilities. In return, there will be many opportunities for you to enhance your skill set, gain new experiences, and develop your career pathway within this important function. You do not need to be a practising Christian or have a faith to work with us - around 50% of our staff are not practising Christians but are comfortable with the Christian ethos that underpins our work. However, all our staff do have a desire to make a difference. Benefits and Rewards ODBF continues to offer a range of rewards and benefits to its staff, including: Competitive salary Generous employer pension contribution of 12.5% into the auto-enrolment pension scheme, which includes a death-in-service benefit (5% employee contribution) Re-accreditation as a Living Wage employer Annual holiday entitlement starting at 25 days, excluding public holidays, rising each year by one day to a maximum of 30 days, pro-rata for part-time employees In addition to the statutory UK public holidays, the Diocese offers three privilege days to all employees, namely Maundy Thursday, Ascension Day, and Christmas Eve (or the closest working day, where this falls on a weekend) Flexible working patterns with the ability to do some work from home Sabbatical leave, after a qualifying period of service Access to wellbeing support via Employee Assistance Programme Enhanced family-friendly policies and a generous occupational sick pay provision Free parking and subsidised on-site café Electric car and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes EV charging points on site Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme with Octopus Electric Dreams Cycle to Work scheme with Green Commute Initiative Contributions towards eye examinations and prescriptive lenses Access to low-interest rate financial services from Churches Mutual Credit Union An attractive modern working environment The successful candidate must have the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. If you would like to learn more about this opportunity before submitting your application, please feel free to contact the Director of Finance to discuss the role in further detail. Contact details are available once you start the process. We want the organisations commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion for all to be reflected in the composition of staff. We are particularly keen to receive applications from candidates from communities currently underrepresented in the diocese. You may have experience in other areas such as Finance, Finance Officer, Finance Assistant, Finance Administrator, Finance and Operations Officer, Finance and Operations Assistant, Accountant, Junior Accountant. PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
Sep 23, 2025
Full time
Finance Officer Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work for an organisation that makes a difference A rare opportunity has arisen to join a small and vibrant finance team working with the Diocese in Oxford. We are looking to recruit a brand-new position to contribute to the day to day running of the Diocese Board of Finance (ODBF) where your contribution will have a huge impact. Position: Finance Officer - Operations Location: Kidlington, Oxford/Hybrid Hours: 37 hours per week Salary: £36,475.31 - £39,281.10 Contract: Permanent Closing Date: Sunday 5 October 2025 at midnight Interview Date: Monday 20 October 2025, Oxford The Role In this role, you will support the Finance Manager in providing a proactive, efficient, and highly effective finance service across the Diocesan Board of Finance and Trust custodian company, as well as supporting the larger finance team who look after the Board of Education. The role will be diverse, starting with managing the day-to-day functions but also assisting in all areas of the finance function, including bank reconciliations, VAT, forecasting and reporting. You will play a key role within a Finance department totalling 9 staff, with input into the future running and design of how the department continues to move forward and grow. About You We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated accountant or trainee accountant (or a financially astute individual with relevant experience) to join the friendly team in the Finance function. You will embrace the challenge that such a varied role brings. With proven experience in producing timely, high-quality and accurate financial information, your can-do approach to work will inspire you to deliver excellent, meaningful financial reports that will have high impact for stakeholders. You will be flexible in your working style, have strong numerical proficiency, confident communication skills, and excellent organisational and monitoring abilities. In return, there will be many opportunities for you to enhance your skill set, gain new experiences, and develop your career pathway within this important function. You do not need to be a practising Christian or have a faith to work with us - around 50% of our staff are not practising Christians but are comfortable with the Christian ethos that underpins our work. However, all our staff do have a desire to make a difference. Benefits and Rewards ODBF continues to offer a range of rewards and benefits to its staff, including: Competitive salary Generous employer pension contribution of 12.5% into the auto-enrolment pension scheme, which includes a death-in-service benefit (5% employee contribution) Re-accreditation as a Living Wage employer Annual holiday entitlement starting at 25 days, excluding public holidays, rising each year by one day to a maximum of 30 days, pro-rata for part-time employees In addition to the statutory UK public holidays, the Diocese offers three privilege days to all employees, namely Maundy Thursday, Ascension Day, and Christmas Eve (or the closest working day, where this falls on a weekend) Flexible working patterns with the ability to do some work from home Sabbatical leave, after a qualifying period of service Access to wellbeing support via Employee Assistance Programme Enhanced family-friendly policies and a generous occupational sick pay provision Free parking and subsidised on-site café Electric car and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes EV charging points on site Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme with Octopus Electric Dreams Cycle to Work scheme with Green Commute Initiative Contributions towards eye examinations and prescriptive lenses Access to low-interest rate financial services from Churches Mutual Credit Union An attractive modern working environment The successful candidate must have the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. If you would like to learn more about this opportunity before submitting your application, please feel free to contact the Director of Finance to discuss the role in further detail. Contact details are available once you start the process. We want the organisations commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion for all to be reflected in the composition of staff. We are particularly keen to receive applications from candidates from communities currently underrepresented in the diocese. You may have experience in other areas such as Finance, Finance Officer, Finance Assistant, Finance Administrator, Finance and Operations Officer, Finance and Operations Assistant, Accountant, Junior Accountant. PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
