Finance Officer

Finance Officer - Income and Payments

The role involves correctly accounting for all payments and income including district assessment, ensuring that all sums due to the Church have been duly received and where necessary, banked intact and promptly and correctly accounted for. Also, processing and accounting for gift aid claims and supporting churches.

Your Qualities:

• Good attention to detail and communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues
• First class organisational and administrative skills and systematic approach to work
• Ability to deliver to set deadlines
• Able to remain calm under pressure and be tactful in difficult or sensitive situations
• Honesty, integrity, resilience and professionalism

Key Duties include:

• Process gift aid claims and provide support to churches Gift Aid Secretaries
• Processing supplier invoices ensuring payments are made on time
• Processing donations, raising sales invoices and performing credit control checks
• Posting investment income transactions and administering legacies
• Raising sales ledger invoices and performing credit control
• Posting cash book journals and preparing bank and control account reconciliations
• Process the pension scheme cashbooks and general ledger journals
• To be the main point of contact to handle customer and supplier queries.

Our Culture, Values and Benefits

Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.

We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), annualised hours and a Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution.

The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups. We also welcome applications from people living with disabilities.

If you require reasonable adjustments to made at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact Zein Mbah at:

Closing Date: 26 January 2025

Interview Date: 4 February 2025 at Methodist Church House, London