Volunteer Volunteer Finance Officer for MK Community Boat Electra

What will you be doing?

 Core skills required are: Book-keeping and management accounting; Sage (Business Cloud); ability to work with online sales systems used (Fareharbor and Sum Up); team player – able to work well with volunteer Ops Management Team colleagues.  The key tasks are:

Reconcile and post transactions in Fareharbor (online ticketing system) Reconcile and post Sum Up transactions (on board EPOS café bar) Reconcile and post BACS payments for cruises (few) Load purchase invoices (direct, paid by card, expense claims) Reconcile bank (c50pm transactions in season, 15pm in off season) Reconcile balance sheet (prepayments, accruals, deferred income) Raise payments in Charities Aid Foundation bank account Produce monthly accounts in Sage, releasing prepayments and making accruals as necessary Write commentary for accounts with Electra Ops Management Team Deal with ad hoc requests from Ops Team members Produce draft annual budget in consultation and agreement with Ops Management Team Liaise with Trust FD over application of Trust procedures and finalisation of budget

The role takes about 5 hours a week in the main season (Apr to Oct), about half that in the off season (Nov to Mar). Some tasks are weekly, others are more flexible.

What are we looking for?

Book-keeping and management accounting in Sage  Ability to work with sales systems used (Fareharbor and Sum Up)  Team player – able to work well with volunteer Ops Management Team colleagues  Sufficient experience to undertake the role independently 

What difference will you make?

You'll get  The huge satisfaction of knowing that your actions and reports enable the Ops Management Team to run the business well in support of the Trust Experience of working in a charity business team as a volunteer Opportunity to further develop skills and responsibilities as a Finance Officer The chance to help raise funds and manage the delivery of cruises to give people in need in MK (refugee communities, old people, looked-after children, people with disabilities) the opportunity to enjoy a memorable experience on Electra for free.