The Brilliant Club

Recruitment Pack

Part-time Finance Coordinator

June 2026

Registered Limited Company: 07986971

Registered Charity: 1147771 (England and Wales), SC048774 (Scotland)

Finance Coordinator 0.5FTE

Start Date: Immediately on completion of notice period

Salary: £27,984 (plus £2,000 London weighting for those living in London and within the M25), pro-rated for 0.5FTE

Contract Type: Permanent

About the role

We are excited to be recruiting a part-time Finance Coordinator to support the Finance team to fulfil day-to-day objectives and help the wider organisation to deliver its goals. This is a great opportunity to join The Brilliant Club Team at a time when we are moving into the delivery of our new Backing Brilliance strategy.

The Finance Coordinator position will report to the Finance Manager. The role will manage a varied workload that includes checking and approving expenses, bank reconciliations, purchase invoices, maintaining purchase orders, support credit control, managing the Finance inbox and phone, responding to staff and supplier queries and supporting the Finance team with the departmental targets. The role requires an enthusiastic individual with an eye for detail and good interpersonal skills.

The successful candidate will champion the charity’s values and embody them in interactions with colleagues and external stakeholders. To ensure excellent working relationships are maintained, they will be effective communicators with staff and external stakeholders. They will continually improve in their areas of responsibility, looking at how the Finance department can be more efficient and implementing new ideas. They will be positive and proactive, with a commitment to delivering excellent standards.

While this role can be based in our London or Leeds offices, some travel will be required to London for events and to attend in-person meetings.

About you

The role will best suit someone who

• Has experience in a similar finance role

• Has good knowledge of Microsoft Excel

• Is proactive and adaptable with a can-do attitude

• Is able to work to tight deadlines and prioritise work appropriately

• Can communicate effectively with staff and stakeholders

• Has experience of using accounting systems

• Adheres to information security policies included in the charity’s ISO 27001 manual and complete information security training

• Has a demonstrable passion for furthering The Brilliant Club’s mission

• Has or is working towards accounting qualifications e.g. AAT, part qualified CIMA etc (desirable)

About The Brilliant Club

What we do

Access to higher education and the life-changing opportunities that come from attending the most competitive universities is not equal. 28 in 100 of the most advantaged students progress to the most competitive universities. In contrast, only 2 in 100 of the least advantaged young people access these universities. Today, this mission is more urgent than ever. The Sutton Trust’s recent report, Elitist Britain, demonstrates how the most influential roles in our country – in politics, law, the army, media and even the third sector - continue to be dominated by the privately educated and graduates of the most prestigious universities

We think this is fundamentally unfair and are passionate about the transformative impact of higher education, for young people, for communities and for broader society. We want a society where every child has a fair chance to unlock their brilliance, regardless of where or how they grew up.

The Brilliant Club has supported over 140,000 students across the UK to access leading universities, boosting academic attainment and setting young people up to thrive in higher education and beyond in the world of work.

Our programmes support social mobility through a range of approaches:

The Scholars Programme, boosts attainment, supports progression to leading universities, and develops critical thinking skills essential for education and employment for 15,000 students each year.

Parent Power empowers parents and carers to become champions for higher education in their communities and address any barriers their children face, while also ensuring more families have access to high-quality advice and guidance on education pathways and how to support their child’s learning.

• Our pioneering approaches to university transition and student success ensure that less advantaged students are supported to achieve a strong degree

We hope that you’ll consider joining us, as we work to create a fairer society where no child’s education is limited by their background.

Working for us

• Hours: 18.75 hours per week (0.5FTE). Flexible working with core hours to be agreed.

Benefits include: 36 days’ holiday (inclusive of bank holidays), increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 41 days (pro rata for part-time), employer contribution to pension, interest-free season ticket loan, professional development day allowance, BUPA health cover cash plan.

• We’re happy to talk flexible working. We have offices in Leeds and London.

After your first month in this role, we expect you to be connecting face-to-face with colleagues on at least one day per week. In your first month, we’ll ask you to be in offices a little more regularly than this to make sure you’re getting to know your key colleagues and feeling connected to the organisation. We expect that part time colleagues would pro rata the amount of office days based on their contracted hours.

Our values

The Brilliant Club has three core values that underpin how we work. We look for people who share these values:

• We get to a solution

• We seek and act on the best data available

• We understand that little things go a long way

Diversity at The Brilliant Club

We mobilise the PhD community to support students who are less advantaged to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of the communities we work with, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low-income families.

“I am the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Staff Engagement Lead at The Brilliant Club. My role is to help make the charity an inclusive working environment for all of our colleagues. I work with our amazing Staff Networks and colleagues in HR to ensure everyone at the charity has a sense of belonging.”

Emily - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Staff Engagement Lead

“As the first in my family to go to university and having worked as a teacher in a state school, I applied to join The Brilliant Club with a real passion for the charity’s mission. I am grateful every day that I work at a charity that is supportive of both professional development and flexible working, as well as being full of kind and passionate colleagues.”

Leanne, Chief Operating Officer

Safeguarding

The Brilliant Club is committed to proactively safeguarding children, beneficiaries and staff and to taking reasonable steps to protect all those who come into contact with the charity from harm. The safety and welfare of everyone affected by the charity’s activities, especially children, is a key governance priority.

As part of our recruitment and selection process and commitment to safeguarding, we will undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check of all individuals in this role. Any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory disclosure report.

Responsibilities

The following areas of responsibility are the core of the role. However, the role is flexible and will vary according to the needs of the team, and the background and experience of the successful applicant.

Finance Tasks

• Processing staff and tutor expenses and responding to queries on this.

• Processing bank reconciliations.

• Processing supplier invoices and generating supplier payments.

• Maintaining purchase orders and supplier details.

• Support with credit control, this may include corresponding with schools and universities via phone calls or emails, ensuring to maintain positive stakeholder relationships and deliver a high quality service.

Responding to colleagues and stakeholder queries.

• Supporting the wider activity of the finance team such as managing the finance email account, phone and post.

Cross-organisational Work

• Support The Brilliant Club’s wider activities, such as assisting with programme events if needed

Person specification

Time and Resource Management:

• Ability to work to tight deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy

• Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities

External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management:

• Confident in handling enquiries from external stakeholders and adapting approach to meet different needs

Communication:

• Ability to communicate effectively with staff and stakeholders

Initiative and Problem-solving:

• Proactive and adaptable with a can-do attitude

• Works with their team to respond quickly to solve problems

• Detail orientated, ensuring that internal control processes are adhered to

Developing Self and Others:

• Self-reflective and committed to own professional development

What comes next

To apply: Please submit your application by clicking here. As part of your application, you will be asked to submit your CV and complete the answers to some application questions.

Deadline: 5.00pm on Sunday 5th July.

Interviews: Provisional dates First round: Wednesday 15th July. Second round: Tuesday 21st July.
Interviews will take place virtually on Microsoft Teams.

For more information: Visit our website or email recruitment@thebrilliantclub.org