Location: Hybrid – your time can be split between our office in Bristol based on the Harbourside, and your home subject to agreement with your manager.
Department: Finance
Report to: Finance Manager
Responsible for: N/A
Salary: £26,712 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working hours: Full time, 37.5 hours a week
About We The Curious
We The Curious is an educational charity and South West England's leading science centre.
We produce experiences that bring people together to play, get creative with science and explore different ideas.
We work with partners, locally and nationally, supporting people to be inquisitive, develop new skills and improve their wellbeing.
We are progressive, inquisitive, collaborative, playful and creative.
Our mission
Our aim is to connect and empower people through sharing creative experiences which celebrate unknowns in science.
Our work as a charity is driven by five key pledges:
_Cultivate Curiosity
_Include Everyone
_Open Up Science
_Sustainable Futures
_Build Resilience
You can find out more about these in our Manifesto.
About the role
Working within a small forward-thinking finance department, the main focus of this role is supporting the team on the day-to-day management of the Finance Systems.
This is a crucial role, you will have the ability to start conversations and develop relationships to ensure your responsibilities are completed to a high level of detail, with a diplomatic and sensitive approach.
What will you do in this role?
Role specific responsibilities
_You’ll be responsible for the accurate entry of purchase ledger invoices, monthly supplier statement reconciliation and disputing invoices if required.
_You’ll be responsible for setting up and maintaining supplier records and direct debit monitoring as well as periodic BACS runs
_You’ll provide great customer service and build relationships with suppliers, responding to external supplier queries.
_You’ll deal with internal queries regarding invoice and purchase order approvals.
_You’ll support the team in the month-end close process
_You will reconcile weekly retail transactions and process weekly takings as well as responding to internal ticketing and merchant queries
_You’ll raise general sales invoices as requested by the organisation and will liaise with the bookings team for raising schools invoicing on a weekly basis
General responsibilities
_Embody and demonstrate our values; Collaborative, Creative, Inquisitive, Playful, Progressive.
_Responsible for carefully following safeguarding policies and procedures and raising any concerns to manager/Designated Safeguarding Officer.'
_Collaborate with the Development team on any funding bids and reports relating to your area of work.
_General responsibility for departmental compliance with GDPR.
_Support the rest of the Finance team with projects when required.
_Due to the financial responsibilities of this role, you will be required to complete a standard DBS check.
What we're looking for from you
_Ideally, you’ll have previous experience of working within a Finance team and a knowledge of accounting processes and software.
_You are passionate about all things finance, with a high standard of numeracy and literacy and great Excel skills (vlookups, pivot tables, sumifs)
_You’ll be highly self-motivated and bring effective organisational skills, with good attention to detail.
_Ability to work well under pressure and maintain a strong attention to detail.
_You are approachable and friendly with a flexible professional approach with the ability to communicate with staff at all levels
_You enjoy working in a fast paced/constantly changing environment
Application process
Deadline for applications: Sunday 8th September at midnight
Interview date(s) and location: Tuesday 17th & Wednesday 18th September at We The Curious offices
Start date: Monday 21st October
Application process: If you would like to apply, please complete the application form. It contains questions designed to access your experience and suitability for the role.
Please do not send in CVs or covering letters as we don’t review them.
We appreciate interviews can be stressful, so if you are invited for interview, we’ll send you the structure of the workshop and the questions that you’ll be asked beforehand so that you have time to prepare.
If you would like to talk about the role, the application or interview process, please email people@wethecurious.org.
You are welcome to apply for any role that is being advertised in the run up to our re-opening, your applications are anonymous, and they will not be compared.
Including everyone
We value the positive impact greater representation will have on our organisation, programmes and culture. It’s our goal to become an inclusive place to work and for our teams to better reflect our city and the people who visit us.
We welcome applications from people of all lived experiences and particularly those that are not well represented* in the science centre sector.
We want to work with you to ensure the recruitment process is accessible for you, please contact us if you have questions about We The Curious, our accessibility or recruitment process at people@wethecurious.org
*By not well represented we mean people with lived experience including but not limited to:
_African and African-Caribbean heritage
_South Asian and East Asian heritage
_Other global majority ethnic groups
_Disabled
_Neurodivergent
_Visually Impaired
_Deaf community
_LGBTQIA+ and/or non-binary
_Working class background
_Didn’t go to university or first in your immediate family to attend University
Working with us
We value the people that work with us. Our staff have access to the following:
Wellbeing & support
_Flexible working
_Hybrid working
_Mental Health First Aiders
_Confidential advice & counselling through the Employee Support Programme
Leave
_25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays (all pro-rata).
_New parent package: 5 months full pay followed by four months half pay for all new parents
Facilities & discounts
_Free entry to the venue at any time with up to four guests, plus 12 additional entry tickets per calendar year to give away.
_15% off in the We The Curious café
_20% off in our shop
_Range of discounts with local businesses and free entry to other local attractions.
_Free parking
_Secure cycle storage
Pension
_We offer a pension scheme with 5% company contributions.
Death in service benefit
_Four times your annual salary.