Financial Operations Accountant

Are you an experienced financial professional? Pilgrims' Friend Society is expanding, and we need a Financial Operations Accountant to take charge of focusing on the financial management of the legal entities within the PFS Group. This role allows you to work within a varied role, supporting our work through the timely production of high-quality financial and management reports and information to enable effective decisionmaking across all our homes and schemes.

Our focus is providing a loving and caring environment for our "family members" (our residents) and maintaining the *Christian ethos that is important to many of them.

The group operates on 15 sites with over 600 staff and an annual income of c.PS15m.

View our latest annual report here.

• Preparation and posting of standard accruals, unauthorised invoices and prepayments and completion of balance sheet reconciliations
• Processing all cashbook entries.
• Performing daily checks on bank balances to ensure minimum cash levels are maintained and transfers managed as required.
• Managing BACS payment runs in line with signing authority.
• Provide excellent support to homes, schemes and colleagues by replying promptly and professionally to emails and telephone queries.
• Assist in ad hoc queries and reports.

• Minimum of 5 years experience working in a finance team;
• AAT qualification or higher;
• Strong Excel skills (Vlookups, pivot tables);
• Experience using Sage 200;
• Able to work under pressure;
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work in a cohesive team.

*Applicants must be evangelical Christians (This role has an Occupational Requirement to be filled by a Christian under the provisions of the Equality Act (2010).).

Full-time contract, Working 34.5 hours a week-Monday to Friday.

Hybrid working- although we would expect you to be in our Support Office in central London at regular intervals.

• PS35k to PS37.725k per annum
• Hybrid working
• 5 Weeks' paid holiday per year, as well as bank and public holidays
• Life assurance scheme
• Perkbox - including an Employee assistance programme.
• Pension scheme

Pilgrims' Friend Society is a registered charity. Our Christian ethos is central to everything we plan and do. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Please note: this vacancy may close sooner if sufficient applications have been received so please apply as soon as possible if interested.