Could you be our volunteer finance assistant?

Role: 2x Finance Assistant

Time Commitment: 4 hours per week

Location: Orwell House, Cambridge, CB4 0PP

As a volunteer Finance Assistant to the Senior Finance Officer, you will have previously worked or volunteered in a financial role, will be familiar with financial processes and accounting software, and will be known as a reliable and trustworthy person.

Read on to learn more about the role. To apply, email: [email protected]

How You May Help Us:

Depending on your experience, here are some of the areas you may help us with:

1. Cash Processing: Recording cash collections, re-counting, consolidation and preparing for paying
into the bank or Post Office

2. Cheque Processing: Checking incoming cheque donations and paper standing orders:

• Scanning and recording
• Posting standing order forms
• Depositing cheques to the bank or Post Office via post
• Submitting CAF vouchers for payment, where appropriate
• Writing and sending “Thank You” letters, where appropriate (email or post)

3. Processing Record Sheets: Collecting and scanning, ensuring none are missing, and adding to
Quickbooks.

4. Processing Debit Cards / Equals Cards: Maintaining balances, reconciling transactions, scanning
receipts and adding to SharePoint and/or Quickbooks.

5. Processing Expense Claims: Checking and adding to Quickbooks.

6. Scanning paper bills and recording them online (SharePoint and/or Quickbooks).

What You Will Need:

• Good bookkeeping / accounts administrative experience.
• Competence in using Quickbooks, Zoom/Teams and MS Office software.
• Ability to communicate in a clear positive manner.
• A friendly, trustworthy personality with the ability to maintain confidentiality.
• A commitment to the vision, mission and values of Cambridge City Foodbank.

Who We Are:

Our Vision is for a UK without the need for foodbanks. Each day we meet the need for emergency and affordable food, and tackle the causes of poverty, by harnessing the power of the community. We are an independent local charity and member of the Trussell Trust network.

We value dignity, justice, compassion, community and impact, in all that we do. We serve local people regardless of background, inspired by our Christian ethos and values.

As part of our commitment to inclusion, diversity and equity, we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.

Currently: our amazing team of over 200 volunteers assisted by a small staff team, provided over 17,500 3-day emergency food parcels to people across Cambridge (around one-third are children) and distribute in excess of 170,000 Kilos of food.

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