Accounts Assistant

Build your finance career with purpose

What if you could build your finance career at one of the UK's leading charities while gaining professional qualifications and hands-on experience? Imagine being part of a team that keeps our cash flow and income processes running smoothly, enabling us to deliver life-changing support to people affected by dementia.

About the opportunity

As Accounts Assistant focusing on Treasury and Accounts Receivables, you'll play an important role in delivering a high-performing, efficient financial transactions operation with partnership and improvement at its core.

This is both an operational and developmental role, offered with the possibility of pursuing a formal qualification such as a financial accounting apprenticeship or another appropriate finance or administration-related qualification.

You’ll be part of our Finance & Assurance directorate, reporting to the Financial Transaction Team Officers and working alongside other assistants and trainees. Focusing specifically on Treasury and AR activities, you'll gain broad experience across cash management, income processing, and receivables.

From recording and processing financial transactions to supporting month-end and year-end processes, you'll monitor daily communications and role-model brilliant partnership and customer service, support reconciliations and audits, and work in an agile way across multiple projects and workstreams.

About you

You’re someone with a willingness to learn and develop on the job, sharing your learnings with colleagues to foster whole-team development. You have a working interest in quality improvement and an enthusiasm for a career in finance with ideas to help us constantly improve.

You’ll have:

• Willingness to learn and develop on the job (including undertaking specialist training), sharing those learnings with colleagues

• Working interest in quality improvement in processes, analysis, communications, or customer service, and experience supporting it

• Enthusiasm for a career in finance and ideas to help us constantly improve

• Experience of problem-solving, preferably in a financial environment, and willingness to proactively reach across to colleagues in different teams

• Good grasp of data and how it can be analysed and presented to improve understanding, engagement, and performance

• Experience of developing basic financial reports and performing simple bank reconciliations

What you’ll focus on

• Supporting the effective running and performance of the Financial Transactions team, with a specific focus on Treasury and Accounts Receivables activities

• Undertaking specific projects to demonstrate or drive improvements across Treasury and AR processes

• Monitoring and responding to daily communications from colleagues and role-modelling brilliant partnership and customer service

• Recording, processing, and filing financial transactions in line with internal procedures, including completing reconciliations

• Assisting in month-end and year-end closing processes, including preparing for and supporting audits

• Identifying ways to improve processes and making recommendations to senior colleagues

• Supporting colleagues across the organisation to operate within best practice for financial transactions

• Role-modelling working in ways that always adhere to internal policies, procedures, and compliance requirements

• Liaising with suppliers and other third parties where appropriate

• Supporting officers and managers with reconciliations, reports, and analysis related to cash management and receivables

Important dates

• Application deadline: Sunday 22nd March 2026

• Interviews: 31st March, 1st and 2nd April

About Alzheimer’s Society

Dementia is the UK's biggest killer. One in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime.

At Alzheimer’s Society, we're the UK's leading dementia charity and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by giving help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding groundbreaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be.

Together with our supporters, we're working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.

Our values and commitment to inclusion

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer’s Society.

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer’s Society.

Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, internal employee forum, and Employee Lived Experience network groups help us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

Our hiring process

We anonymise applications up until interview stage to ensure fairness and consistency. While AI tools can be useful, we encourage candidates to showcase their unique perspective, experiences, and skills in their own voice.

We are committed to safer recruitment and ensuring the welfare of those we work with. Some roles may require a Criminal Record Check at the relevant level.

Giving back to you

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with:

• A range of benefits and recognition programmes

• Agile working options for strong work-life balance

• Learning programmes to support your development and career growth