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Join The Sick Children’s Trust team and help us make sure more families with a sick child in hospital can be together.

Join Our Team

Join our committed team at The Sick Children’s Trust and help us to continue giving families with a seriously ill child in hospital a warm and comfortable place to stay when they need it most.

Our Benefits

  • 35 hour working week
  • 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off and a bonus day in December
  • Time off in lieu policy
  • Permanent Health Insurance Scheme
  • Pension
  • Season Ticket loan
  • Commitment to development and training including the opportunity to take part in our Aspire Leadership Training Programme
  • Life Assurance
  • Family friendly policies (flexible working and time off for dependants)
  • Commitment to your well being including an Employee Assistance Programme, Eye care vouchers, and flu jab

Current Vacancies

Senior Finance Officer

Full time – 35 hours per week Monday to Friday

Location: London

Hybrid Working available

Would you like to help families with seriously sick children in hospital stay together? Then join The Sick Children’s Trust as our Senior Finance Officer.

We have an exciting opportunity to support a super friendly, motivated and supportive Finance and Database Team.

The role is conveniently located near Liverpool Street and hybrid working is available working Monday to Wednesday in the office.

You will be an effective team member working alongside the Finance Manager to ensure that income and expenditure are appropriately processed in accordance with The Sick Children’s Trust procedures and coding and costing are accurate and appropriate. You will be the first line of contact for day to day finance queries.

Duties will include:

  • Processing all income and expenditure transactions ensuring accurate coding
  • Overseeing the fixed asset ledger
  • Preparing quarterly and annual VAT returns
  • Preparing annual expenditure budgets and monthly expenditure reforecasts
  • Banking donations and preparing bank reconciliations
  • Preparing for the annual external audit and carrying out internal audits
  • Providing support on budget preparation

About you

You have experience working in a finance or accounting team, ensuring you can hit the ground running. Your skills and knowledge ensure you are confident in carrying out day to day and monthly financial processes and enable you to provide managers advice on finance and coding processes.

Proficient IT skills and good working knowledge of accountancy software are a given.

You have strong organisational skills and an eye for detail to ensure accuracy.

Just as importantly, you have strong interpersonal skills to support colleagues and to work as a good team member.

Benefits

We can offer an attractive benefits package to all our employees to support a healthy work-life balance, including hybrid working, enhanced annual leave, family friendly policies and employee assistance programs.

If you are interested in applying, more details about this role and The Sick Children’s Trust may be found in our recruitment pack.

If you wish to apply for the role, please complete the questionnaire and submit it along with your CV to recruitment@sickchildrenstrust.org

Closing date: 11 August 2024

We are reviewing applications as they are received, so early application is advised.

Senior Finance Officer Recruitment Pack.pdf

Senior Finance Officer Questionnaire.doc

Volunteering opportunities

Volunteering with The Sick Children’s Trust is a great way to develop your skills and meet new people from all walks of life. We are always looking for helpful and reliable volunteers no matter how much time you have to spare.

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What our colleagues say

  • 97%

    of our colleagues enjoy working at The Sick Children's Trust

  • 95%

    of our colleagues are proud to work at The Sick Children's Trust

  • 94%

    of our colleagues said that the work of the charity inspires them to do a good job

“Being a House Manager for The Sick Children’s Trust is a very rewarding job. Every day I meet new family members and everyone has their own stories and difficulties that they’re going through. I really enjoy being the key support that we give to the families who stay with us. Making them feel at home and giving them one less thing to worry about is so important at a time when they need us most.“

Imtiaz Pathan,
House Manager at Stevenson House, London

“I am constantly amazed by our supporters and their resilience and determination to give back in the face of adversity. Many of our supporters are individuals who have experienced staying in one of our ‘Homes from Home’ and they can’t do enough to fundraise for us and raise awareness of our vital work. This puts a smile on my face every day.”

Elisa Cappello-Dowd,
Community Fundraising Manager

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