Finance Admin Assistant

£26,227.50 per annum
Fixed term until 30 October 2027. Full time (37.5 hours a week)
The role

Looking for a finance administration role where your attention to detail makes a difference? Join us as a Finance Admin Assistant and put your accounts payable experience to work in an organisation with a clear purpose.

The team

Our Finance, Risk and Compliance team helps Energy Saving Trust run effectively by providing colleagues with reliable financial information and an efficient finance service.

What you will do

• Process purchase invoices, prepare payment runs and maintain the accounts payable ledger.

• Resolve invoice and payment queries with colleagues and external contacts, providing clear and helpful responses.

• Administer credit card payments and support expenses processing as you develop in the role.

• Check and process loan and grant payment runs accurately and on time.

• Prepare detailed daily cash balance reports and support other finance administration tasks as needed.

What you will bring

• Accounts payable experience, with an understanding of accurate invoice and payment processing.

• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to spot errors in financial information.

• Good Excel skills to support accurate financial administration and reporting.

• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to manage several tasks and meet deadlines.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills and a positive, collaborative approach to resolving queries and supporting colleagues.

For more information, please see the job description

Please submit an anonymised CV and cover letter, removing your name, address, email address, and any other identifying details.

Please use your CV and cover letter to show us how your experience and skills relate to the essential criteria, including transferable skills where relevant. While we are looking for candidates who can demonstrate evidence across most of the essential criteria, we don’t expect everyone to meet every single one, so please don’t be discouraged from applying if your experience doesn’t match every point exactly.

Please note, applications submitted without a cover letter may be rejected.

As part of our recruitment process, we conduct background checks on all candidates who receive a conditional offer of employment. The nature of the scheme that we are contracted to work on with Scottish Government means that we are required to comply with UK Government standards when carrying out pre‑employment checks for new starters. This check is known as the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).

BPSS checks include:
• Verification of identity
• Verification of right to work in the UK
• Verification of your previous 3 years of employment history, including periods spent overseas
• A basic criminal record check (DBS), and where relevant, criminal record information from countries where you have lived for significant periods

Information obtained will only be used for the purposes of assessing your suitability for the role. Please note that if successful, any offer of employment made will be conditional pending the successful completion of the BPSS checks. To meet BPSS requirements, candidates must hold valid UK Right to Work documentation. If you have lived or worked overseas, these periods can be verified as long as the relevant evidence can be provided.

More information on the checks can be found here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/baseline-personnel-security-standard-on-amiqus-processing-data-privacy-notice/

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

Work where you thrive

At Energy Saving Trust, flexibility isn’t just a policy, it’s how we work. Most of our roles can be done remotely, and many of our people choose to work from home full-time. Prefer an office environment? We have welcoming spaces in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and Hadleigh for those who want to connect in person.

We’ll support you with:

• Generous holiday (25 days + bank holidays + extra Christmas leave)

• True flexibility in how and where you work (subject to role requirements)

• Strong pension & life assurance

• Enhanced family leave

• Green travel perks (EV scheme, cycle to work)

• Professional development support

• Yearly wellbeing allowance

These are just some of the benefits we offer.

Want to know more about how we make flexibility real? Check out our Benefits and Culture page

Reasonable adjustments: We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for, everyone.

If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch with recruitment@est.org.uk or call reception on +44 (0)20 7222 0101. We will do our very best to support you.

Diversity and inclusion
Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the criteria for a role. Find out more here.

You can find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications

Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK