Finance Assistant

£30k – £35k • 0.1% – 0.35%
|
Birmingham
|1 year of exp
|Full Time

Posted: 1 year ago

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

Remote Work Policy

In office - WFH flexibility

RelocationAllowed

Skills

Project Management

Financial Services

Self Motivated

Xero

Pleo

Hiring contact

Max Cumming

About the job

At Beam, you get to do work that really matters. We’re solving the world’s toughest social problems. And we’re growing fast 🚀

It’s not easy. Nothing worth doing ever is. But we take care of everyone who works here with everything from coaching to personal budgets and pay highly competitively.

You’ll be joining a company that’s having a huge impact on people’s lives with a culture where you can be yourself, have fun and progress rapidly.

About the role

We're looking for a Finance Assistant to join our growing finance function. We’re looking to hire someone on a 6 month fixed term contract (FTC) to support Beam during a period of incredible growth.

Your key responsibility will be ensuring that everyone using Beam’s service gets what they need to leave homelessness: from that electrician training course, to tools or that rental deposit on the first home they’ve had in years.

But you’ll also get involved in other finance and operational tasks to support your fellow Beamers.

Responsibilities

*Maintaining our internal purchasing system in BeamForce *

Processing Member Orders for items our beneficiaries need
Booking training, checking deliveries and paying invoices for our beneficiaries
Processing refunds & adhoc requests regarding beneficiary purchases
Key point of contact for the operations team and wider teams surrounding beneficiary process requests

Management of our charity financial accounts in Xero

Cash coding and reconciling transactions including donations received into our Charity, The Beam Foundation
Maintenance of suspense accounts
Contribute to month end processes

*Wider finance tasks *

Support the Finance Manager with claiming Gift Aid on behalf of The Beam Foundation
Supporting with finance process improvements and projects
Working closely with the Finance Manager and other finance and operations leads to ensure the continuing financial stability of the charity

You are

Humble and keen to learn with a can-do positive attitude
Renowned for your incredible attention to detail
Excited to learn more about finance and startup ops
Keen to bring your true, open self to work

You'll need

Brilliant attention to detail - vulnerable people are relying on us
Good knowledge of finance and/or accounting processes through experience or a relevant degree
Advanced experience of working with spreadsheets (we use Google Sheets), using functions to manipulate data and pull out key information
Time-management skills
Ideal: knowledge of Xero (accounts payable and bank reconciliation, sales invoicing and journal inputting) and ideally Pleo
Ideal: experience in an accounts payable role in a fast-paced environment

Sound like you? Perhaps you don’t feel you tick every box - that’s OK, we encourage those who feel 70/75% confident with the role, to please hit ‘Apply’, especially if you’re excited about helping kickstart a new era of opportunity for those left behind!

About Beam

We’re a team of over 100 working from our beautiful co-working space in Shoreditch and from home. We’ve picked up an armful of awards for our work (including one from our former Queen!) We’re one of the 10 hottest startups in London, according to WIRED magazine and one of LinkedIn’s Top 15 UK Startups for 2022. We’re also proud to be rated a top company to work for Escape the City, Tempo and The Dots.

We’re committed to hiring diversely and inclusively. You don’t need a degree to work here and we love to hear from ethnic minority candidates and/or those who’ve experienced social disadvantage. 63% of people we support are from ethnic minority backgrounds and 17% have disabilities. We believe we serve these people best when we’re a diverse and inclusive team.

Our benefits