Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery with an effective and proven multi-disciplinary model. Our wholly owned social enterprise, Slave-Free Alliance, provides services to global companies and public bodies seeking to protect their operations and supply chains against the risks of modern slavery and labour exploitation.

Hope for Justice exists to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery by identifying victims, supporting survivors and preventing exploitation. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for you.

Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.

Hope for Justice has an exciting opportunity for a proactive and detail-orientated Finance Assistant to join our global Finance team on a part-time basis. In this role, the Finance Assistant will work as part of the finance team and work collaboratively with colleagues and external stakeholders. The Finance Assistant will have responsibilities in assisting with the financial administration of the organisation, processing a high volume of transactions in multiple currencies and posting to Microsoft Dynamics Business Centre software.

Main Duties:

• Assist with scanning and recording and coding cheque, credit card and cash donations
• Create sales invoice when required
• Monitor POs, matching invoices to POs once available
• Scan purchase invoices and expense claims and store in SharePoint
• Code, check and process purchase invoices and staff expenses
• Post transactions into Microsoft Dynamics Business Centre (MDBC) including allocation of VAT
• Match receipts to credit card statements, code and input
• Prepare weekly payment runs for UK entities, including intergroup transfers
• Assist with preparation of VAT returns for HFJ
• Prepare financial information for audit as required
• Assist with internal audit processes where required
• Provide cover for equivalent tasks for SFA during periods of SFA Finance leave
• Ad hoc financial administrative tasks and any other reasonable duties as directed
• Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing, global non-profit organisation with a well-respected reputation for changing lives and fighting for freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery.

For full details of this role please download the attached role profile.

• Minimum 5 years experience in finance teams
• Experience of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
• Experience of working in an international / multicurrency environment
• Proficient in Excel (ideally PIVOT tables and LOOKUPs)
• Experience of MDBC (desirable)

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

Hope for Justice are committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff.

Hope for Justice is a Living Wage employer, accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

As part of Hope for Justice, you will benefit from an excellent package including:

· 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service (pro rata for part time hours)

· 1 day Marriage Leave

· Enhanced employer pension contributions

· Company sick pay

· Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

· Access to our Employee Rewards Platform, providing discounts and offers for well-known retailers

· Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family

· Professional development opportunities

· Professional memberships paid

· Flexible and hybrid working

Role Details

Job type: Part-Time (0.8 FTE - 30 hours per week)

Annual Salary: Up to £29,000 FTE (up to £23,200 pro rata at part-time hours).

Closing date: 2nd August 2024

Applications will be reviewed and interviews held on a rolling basis. The advert may be removed prior to the closing date if the position is filled. If you are interested in this role please ensure to submit your application as soon as possible.

Location: Flexible (UK-based, Hybrid-Remote role - Occasional travel to the Manchester head office may be required)

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy – to view this please click here. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We would like to inform you that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond individually to all applicants. Rest assured that all applications are carefully reviewed, however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the selection process. Thank you for your understanding.