The Behavioural Insights Team is recruiting a Finance Officer to work in our Operations Team. The role offers an excellent opportunity to gain experience of all aspects of company finances, in a growing and dynamic organisation. Alongside a team of experienced finance and operational professionals, you will initially be responsible primarily for accounts receivable (invoicing and credit control) and also provide support on accounts payable (paying suppliers and employee expenses). In the longer term there will be opportunity to grow the role further as the team implement a new finance system over the next 12 months (Microsoft NAV).

You will have considerable opportunities for learning and progressing in your career – we offer both support for progressing with accounting qualifications, as well as significant “on the job” training – and provide a supportive and stimulating work environment. You will also be encouraged to attend the lunchtime talks from a range of external speakers, and an internal training programme to learn more about the nature of BIT’s work).

About the Behavioural Insights Team

The then Prime Minister created BIT in 2010 to apply behavioural science to public policy in the UK. In February 2014 we became a social purpose company, owned by the Cabinet Office, Nesta (an innovation charity) and our employees.

The Behavioural Insights Team works with governments and organisations around the world in almost every area of policy. Whilst the subject and output of our projects varies considerably, there are common threads: we try to understand the contexts in which people make decisions; we notice small details; we find out what has and hasn’t worked before; we come up with innovative ideas for solving policy problems and we measure everything we do as robustly as we can.

The Operations Team supports the business to deliver objectives both in the UK and overseas covering finance, HR, legal, commercial and facilities. In this role you will have the opportunity to work with colleagues and partners in all of our offices.

Roles and Responsibilities

In order to succeed you will need to be able to effectively prioritise your work to deal with arising finance queries while delivering work to a regular monthly finance schedule. BIT has a core set of values which apply not only in our day to day consulting but also within the team environment. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a desire to make things easier for their colleagues and have a social impact internally and externally through what they do.

As the Finance Officer you will play an important role in running the monthly finance schedule of tasks. We have over 150 staff in six offices globally, you will need to build effective relationships with them in order to drive forward the monthly finance tasks and payment runs. This will include:

Accounts Receivable:

• Reviewing contracts and setting up invoicing schedules in our finance system;

• Invoice preparation and issue;

• Credit control;

• Preparing the monthly debtors report; and

• Cash allocation and bank reconciliations.

Accounts Payable:

• Reviewing, coding & posting purchase invoices and staff expenses;

• Checking and reconciling all invoices & expenses for fortnightly BACS runs;

• Ensuring all company credit and debit cards are reconciled;

• Preparing any online payments;

• Liaising with suppliers and querying purchase invoices

• Preparing the monthly creditors report; and

• Maintaining supplier statements.

Regular tasks:

• Keeping accurate records of all financial transactions and ensuring that there is a clear audit path on record;

• Responsibility for mail received in the Finance email inbox;

• Helping to develop and document finance systems and processes; and

• Ad hoc duties as and when required.

Essential:

• Demonstrable accounting skills and knowledge through previous work experience;

• Excellent interpersonal skills;

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral;

• Results / task orientated, attention to detail and accuracy;

• Ability to organise and complete a diverse workload of several tasks and to deliver to a high standard and to strict deadlines;

• Self-motivated, able to demonstrate initiative and proactive approach to work; and

• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently.

Desirable:

• Previous experience using accounting software packages;

• Part-qualified accounting (AAT or equivalent); and

• Experience working in a group office supporting multiple overseas offices.

#Applications close at 12 noon (BST) on Tuesday 3rd April 2018.