Finance Assistant

Location Woolwich
Discipline: Support Services
Job type: Flexible
Salary: £13.15 per hour
Contact name: Alaba Onasanya

Job ref: 204548

GLL is looking for a Finance Assistant to join our finance team at its Head Office based in Woolwich, South East London.  As the UK’s largest public provider of leisure and cultural services, our finance department handles large and diverse ranges of transactions and functions.

 

As Finance Assistant, you will be working across the board in our Shared Services Finance Dept. containing 3 sub-teams. You will need to have excellent customer services skills, required in handling both internal and external enquiries.  The role requires you to have at least basic excel skills, knowledge of double entry and data entry experience.

 

You should be familiar with both Sales and Purchase Ledger related tasks, although training will be provided. Your main role will be Income Protection tasks and bank reconciliations. You’ll be the type of person who thrives in a busy environment and will embrace the variety of the role.

 

Ideally, you will be an all rounded accounts staff member and possibly working towards AAT qualifications.

 

Flexibility, punctuality, and reliability are just as important as integrity, a can-do attitude with a real focus on getting the task done.

 

What you’ll do:

  • Reconciling Bank Receipts to Tills Transactions
  • Investigating discrepancies between Bank Receipts and Transactions
  • Preparing Manual Journals for Bank Reconciliations
  • Responding to around 20-30 emails each day.
  • Liaising with Centre General Managers and Duty Managers to resolve Income queries.
  • Assisting Purchase Ledger with input of Purchase Invoices and queries

 

What you need:

  • A can do attitude
  • Double entry knowledge
  • Excel spreadsheet knowledge
  • Good Customer Service skills
  • Work well as part of a team

 

As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees:

  • 30 hours per week flexible contract
  • £13.15 per hour
  • A Values driven organisation
  • Learning & development to support career development

 

About GLL:

 

As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.

 

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

 

One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

 

We offer two different types of work arrangements:

 

*         A permanent employment contract - part time and full time

*         A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool

 

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work, and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.

 

So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

 

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Silver Award employer.

 

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.

 

We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.

 

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.