GLL is looking for a Finance Assistant to join our dynamic finance team at our Head Office based in Woolwich, Southeast London. As the UK’s largest public provider of leisure and cultural services, our finance department offers a large range of services. As Finance Assistant, you will be working across the board in our Shared Services Finance Dept. You will need to have excellent customer services skills, as you will be responding to both internal and external enquiries. The role requires you to have excel skills, knowledge of double entry and have data entry experience. You should be familiar with both Sales and Purchase Ledger related tasks, although training will be provided. Your role may be extended to Income Protection tasks and bank reconciliations. You’ll be the sort 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. However, for those candidates who are looking for a study scheme and are keen to develop their skills and knowledge in accounts, it may be possible for GLL to offer an AAT Apprenticeship, after a 3-month qualifying period. Flexibility, punctuality, and reliability are just as important as integrity, a can-do attitude and a real focus on getting the task done.
What you’ll do:
- Downloading Bank A/c transactions and saving onto the Drive
- Processing BACs payments c. 100-200 daily to Customer Accounts
- Processing Cheque payments and posting to Customer Accounts
- Processing Card payments and posting to Customer Accounts
- Processing Payments taken at centre and posting to Customer Accounts
- Responding to approximately 20-30 emails each day.
- Taking phone calls and dealing with queries and over the phone card payments
- Chasing overdue balances on Customer Accounts
- Releasing invoiced income to the P&Ls via an upload journal
- Assisting the Purchase Ledger Team with input of Purchase Invoices and queries
- Assisting the Income Protection Team with bank reconciliation related tasks.
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 and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!
The basics:
- This is a Full time permanent. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service; flexible working may be possible. Working from home is not possible in this role.
- We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry-leading rates of pay.
- We can offer a career, not just a job, with extensive Learning & Development support available.
- A uniform will be supplied and must be worn.
- GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in.
- As a staff-owned organisation, you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business.
Additionally, GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:
- Access to a pension scheme.
- Health Assurance and access to Counselling services.
- Access to the tax-efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
- Free annual eye tests.
- Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!
GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:
- The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you.
- Access to team building and fun events such as treks, concerts, outings, etc.
- Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet.
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 a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we are 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 Gold 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.