Finance And Business Support Officer (Maternity Cover)

Finance and Business Support Officer (Maternity Cover)
Home-based (with fortnightly travel to attend team meetings in Swindon)
This is a full-time position for a fixed six-month period, with the potential to become permanent on a part-time contract after the Maternity Cover contract ends.
The Organisation
Westworks is one of the public sector’s leading procurement organisations. We provide pre-tendered works, services, and supplies.
Our members include public sector bodies, from housing associations to local authorities, government departments, social enterprises and charities. We provide members an efficient and compliant route to market for their projects, and our members now manage approximately two million properties across the country. What’s more: membership is growing fast.
We are now looking for a Finance and Business Support Officer to join us on a full-time basis for a six-month Maternity Cover contract from May until November 2024. There is potential for this role to become permanent on a part-time basis after November.
The Benefits
- Salary of £26,000 - £29,000 per annum, depending on experience
This is the perfect opportunity for a part-qualified (or QBE) finance professional with bookkeeping experience to join our dedicated organisation on a Maternity Cover contract.
You will be enabled to build upon your financial and administration skillset, honing your expertise and allowing your career to flourish with our supportive organisation.
So, if you’re ready to join the team, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role
As a Finance and Business Support Officer, you will support the day-to-day running of our Finance and contracts operations.
Reporting to the Head of Finance and Business Support, you will use your financial experience and acumen to optimise our back-office management procedures, as well as assisting in day-to-day admin duties within our Business Support function.
You will work across our teams, supporting financial planning, bookkeeping, preparing reports, and implementing best practices in business and financial administration.
About You
To be considered as a Finance and Business Support Officer, you will need:
- To be part-qualified or QBE
- Experience in a similar role in a busy Business Support or finance function
- Experience of using Quick Books or a similar accounting package
- Credit control and/or ledger experience
- Bookkeeping experience
- Working knowledge of excel
The closing date for this vacancy is the 18th April 2024. Phone interviews are scheduled for the week of the 22nd April 2024 with face-to-face interviews scheduled for the week of the 29th April 2024.
Other organisations may call this role Part-Qualified Accountant, Accountant, Accounts Officer, Finance Officer, Business Support Officer, Service Delivery and Finance Officer, or Finance Administration Officer.
Webrecruit and Westworks Procurement are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
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