Finance Officer

The Finance Officer will work with the finance team to manage weekly book-keeping, keeping financial records, preparing quarterly reports, and helping with budgeting and forecasting processes, as a member of Ethical Consumer, the UK’s longest running alternative consumer organisation.

Finance Responsibilities

Using Quickbooks (switching to Xero in the next couple of years), the Finance Officer will be mainly responsible for the following tasks:

• Weekly bookkeeping
• Financial record keeping
• Reconciling bank accounts and other accounts at the end of the month
• Preparing end of quarter and year journals
• Producing financial reports
• Generating and processing invoices and receipts and setting up supplier payments
• Supporting managing bank account transfers *after initial period*
• Overseeing finance inbox
• Being an active member of the Finance Subgroup and acting as backup/support for other finance tasks as required (e.g. payroll)
• Maintaining Finance Handbook
• Supporting co-op with financial forecasting, planning and budgeting

We are a multi-stakeholder co-operative with Investor-Members. Using the investor-member database, the Finance Officer will play a key role in managing our investors:

• Processing new and further investments and issuing share certificates
• Processing withdrawals
• Handling Investor communications and enquiries
• Running end of year mailing
• Supporting with AGM
• Supporting with Investor-Elections
• Co-operative Responsibilities

All members share the responsibilities of running the co-operative, including taking part in the decision-making process and joining relevant subgroups to help manage e.g. subscriptions, finance, personnel, consultancy or marketing. Subgroup work is core to many members’ roles.