CPRE Sussex Accounts Manager

Use your financial skills to help protect Sussex’s beautiful countryside for future generations

Hours:                Part-time, 9 hours per week (0.24 FTE). Some flexibility over when they are worked to meet office needs. May include occasional evenings/weekends

Salary:                £8k per annum, plus expenses

Contract:           Permanent, subject to 6 months’ probation

Location:           Will need to be able to work from our office near Uckfield on at least 1 day per week (ideally Tuesday); flexibility over location for other hours

Sussex’s Campaign to Protect Rural England is looking for a part-time Accounts Manager, to manage and oversee the accounting and wider financial aspects of the Charity, supporting the Treasurer and Director.

You will use your accounting skills and financial knowledge to ensure that the Charity’s money is well-managed, supporting our work to inform, engage and empower people to protect, celebrate and regenerate their local countryside.

What you’ll do

 Be responsible for ensuring our financial records are maintained to a high standard using the SAGE Accounting and Payroll software systems.

• Draft the budget and prepare and produce the quarterly and annual accounts.
• Oversee the payroll system and pension scheme.
• Monitor our investments, and administer our banking, gift aid and legacies.
• Contribute to the writing of fundraising bids.

What we’re looking for

• Strong accounting/bookkeeping skills
• Experience with SAGE or similar accounting systems, and familiarity administering a payroll
• A confident Excel user, with good analytical skills
• An enthusiasm for ensuring that charitable money is spent as effectively as possible in service of our cause

At a time when the Sussex countryside is under tremendous pressure from low-quality development, pollution, climate change and nature loss, you will play a vital role, as part of a small, dynamic team, in safeguarding our area for future generations.

To apply for the role, please refer to the full Job Description, complete the application form (CVs will not be accepted) and email to jobs@cpresussex.org.uk by the closing date:.

Accounts Manager Job Description and Person Spec

Download: PC24 Application Form AM-26

Please make sure you explain, using examples from your experience, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the person specification, as well as the wider job description; failure to do so means you are unlikely to be shortlisted.

Closing Date for applications is Monday, 9 February at 10:00.