We are currently looking to recruit a new Bookkeeping Volunteer to support, Mehala Manimohan, our Finance Officer.
This is an internal recruitment, if you are interested please contact Mehala by emailing mehala.manimohan@fulhampalace.org before Friday 26th March
We are hoping to meet with potential Bookkeeping Volunteers on the Friday 4th March to discuss the role further.
Role Summary:
The role of the Bookkeeper Volunteer is primarily to assist the Finance Officer in ensuring the charity’s financial systems, payments, and reporting of financial information to appropriate users. In return you will get coaching and mentoring from a qualified accountant who has got more than 10 years of experience in all aspects of accounting and book keeping. This volunteer role creates an ideal opportunity for gaining experience of the financial systems in a busy well established charity whilst also developing existing skills. This opportunity will also help to improve your accounting skills and day today financial management skills.
Main activities/tasks:
· Introduction to coding and processing of supplier invoices in Sage.
· Introduction to raising invoices in Sage.
· Introduction to Credit control, Sales and Purchase Ledger Management.
· Introduction to Journals, Nominal Ledgers and Bank modules in Sage.
· Processing Receipts and Payments.
· Monitoring and closing purchase orders.
· Introduction to budget monitoring.
· Dealing with financial paperwork and filing.
· Introduction to year end accounts preparation.
Relevant experience/skills:
· Knowledge of simple book keeping.
· Willingness to deal with paperwork and filing.
· Numerate and ability to understand basic accounting and budgets.
· Computer literacy preferably Excel and Word.
Training and support:
Volunteers will be given a full induction to Fulham Palace, and training and support to carry out the role. Volunteers will have a named supervisor who will provide support and help.