Finance Assistant (12 Month FTC)

Passionate about making a difference? Join us at The Brain Tumour Charity and help fight for a world without brain tumours. Your impact matters.

The Brain Tumour Charity is leading the way in research, support, and advocacy for everyone affect by brain tumours. Our mission is simple but urgent: to accelerate a cure for brain tumours and improve life for everyone affected by this devastating disease.

Whilst being valued for your vital contribution within the Finance team, you’ll enjoy a variety of responsibilities across the finance function, including cash handling, bank reconciliation, and data inputting.

By collaborating with all the friendly teams in The Charity, you will help us achieve our objectives by processing and reconciling financial data to ensure we meet our legal and financial obligations. The Finance team ensures the delivery of management data to inform constructive future planning and decision making by our Trustees and Senior Leadership Team.

📍Location: While contracted to our office in Fleet, Hampshire, our team supports a blend of office and home working provided you have adequate broadband and IT capability, with an average of 2-3 days in the office each week.

⏰Working hours: This role is 37.5 hours per week, with some out of hours working.

💰Benchmarked salary: £28,000

Please note this is for a 12 month fixed term contract 

You will enjoy working with facts and figures within a busy accounts department where you will have exposure to all areas of the accounts function. You’ll ideally have 12+ months experience of working in finance and you may have or be studying for AAT/early stage in which case you will be actively encouraged to learn and contribute, alongside your studies.

Your professional yet personable approach and your ability to demonstrate strong analytical and numeracy skills with consistency and accuracy will enable you to shine. With excellent administrative and organisational ability and a strong attention to detail, you’ll also be comfortable juggling a range of competing priorities whilst working to tight deadlines.

Strong Excel skills will aid you in this role.

Whilst Charity Sector experience is beneficial, it is not required.

· Raising Sales invoices

· Reconciling the bank statement

· Posting transactions on the Charity finance system

· Accurate and timely processing of purchase invoices and supplier payments

· Accurate and timely processing of all staff and volunteer expense claims

· Processing income for regular banking

· Actively monitoring and responding to the Finance inbox regarding finance queries from across The charity.

· Assisting in the month end close process and reconciliations

· Monitoring the early indicator report, ensuring that all income is recorded correctly on the Salesforce CRM

· Posting transactions onto The Charity’s finance system

· Preparing bank account reconciliations

· Providing general support to the Finance Department across all areas of the accounts remit

We encourage you to apply to the role even if you do not meet all of the criteria.

Experience:

· Previous experience in a finance support role

· Experience of processing invoices, payments, and expenses

· Experience maintaining accurate records and approval audit trails

· Accounting software experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

· Good understanding of basic accounting and financial procedures

· Accuracy along with strong numerical skills is a key requirement

· Good IT skills, including Microsoft Excel and finance systems

· Excellent organisational and time management skills

· Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines

· Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

· Ability to handle confidential information professionally and discreetly

· Ability to work independently using initiative and as part of a team

· Willingness to learn and adapt to new systems and processes

· Personable, approachable, and willing to collaborate with all colleagues across the team

*Please note that the responsibilities listed are not exhaustive and this job description may be subject to change as the role evolves over time.

You’ll be joining a collaborative, bold and innovative team of individuals who put our community first and are connected by a passion to make a real difference. 

🏆Our amazing benefits: 

The Brain Tumour Charity is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our organisation. We particularly welcome applications from individuals belonging to minority ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented communities. 

We strive to create a workplace that celebrates diversity and provides equal opportunities for all candidates and we encourage all individuals to apply even if they don’t meet all the criteria.

Whilst we'd love to have you on board, we want to be upfront as we’d hate to waste your time applying for a role where we can’t take you on. At the moment, we're unable to offer visa sponsorship for any of our positions. We're currently seeking candidates who are already authorised to work in the UK without the need for sponsorship, who can remain on a permanent basis.

Please apply by clicking the red ‘join our team’ button, attaching your CV and a covering letter explaining why you want the role, what you would bring to the team and how your skillset and experience will enable us to make a real impact for those affected by brain tumours. We'd like to encourage you not to use AI to write your cover letter as we want to get to know you, the real you!

We are keen to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive so if you’d find it beneficial to submit your application in a different format, please drop us a line at people@thebraintumourcharity.org.

Advert close date: 10th May 2026

First interview date and location: 19th May 2026 over Teams

Second interview date and location: 28th May 2026 at our office in Fleet

The post holder will also;

• Contribute to achieving the objectives of The Brain Tumour Charity
• Live and breathe our values by being bold, collaborative and innovative, with a community-first approach to everything you do
• Undertake any additional and ad hoc tasks as required
• Participate in team meetings and other meetings as required
• Monitor and evaluate activities and provide written reports
• Represent The Charity at external events in a professional manner
• Work within an equal opportunities framework
• Adhere to all The Charity’s policies, procedures and working
• Ensure all records are held in compliance with GDPR, The Fundraising Regulator Code of Practice and The Brain Tumour Charity policies.

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• Department
• Finance
• Role
• Finance Assistant
• Locations
• Fleet
• Remote status
• Hybrid
• Yearly salary
• £28,000
• Employment type
• Contract

About The Brain Tumour Charity

We are The Brain Tumour Charity, the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally and the only charity in the UK taking on brain tumours on all three fronts: research, campaigning and support.

Our vision is for people diagnosed with a brain tumour to live longer and better lives. So, we’re moving further, faster to help every single person affected by this devastating disease.

We’re accelerating cures for all brain tumours, driving the best lifelong care and raising our global voices for change. So why not apply to become a part of the Brainy Bunch and help us make a real and lasting difference?