Smartdesc - charity IT specialists

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Assisting in purchase ledger, including matching & posting invoices, managing credit notes and monthly reconciliation.
• Managing the queries relating to supplier accounts
• Managing finance mailbox
• Producing sales invoices
• Dealing with customer queries on a daily basis
• Assist credit control on outstanding queries
• Daily bank reconciliations
• Processing staff expenses
• Making payment runs/managing a direct debit system
• Reconciling Supplier statements
• Support the month-end close process including assisting with accruals and prepayments
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and investigate variances

Finance Assistant

Security Engineer

• Identifying steps that organisations need to take to improve their security position and creating roadmaps for continuous improvement, often maximising the use of existing Microsoft licensing and supporting them through the process.
• Alignment of good practice frameworks and standards such as Cyber Essentials, NCSC CAF and ISO 27001.
• Ownership or oversight of key Information Security processes and procedures.
• Implementation and ownership of Information Security Risk Management programmes.
• Identifying and managing remediation actions to reduce risks.
• Ownership or oversight of Information Security Policies.
• Development and Implementation of general and role/function specific Information Security Training and Awareness programmes.
• Raising, investigating and managing or supporting IT Security incidents ensuring any necessary follow up actions.
• Providing IT security support to business functions including digital teams, IT infrastructure and IT Service Desk.
• Development and ownership of the Information Security Internal Audit programmes.
• Oversight of rolling programmes of security tests, reviews and audits.
• Writing Information Security reports and delivering the findings to key stakeholders.

Finance Assistant

Information Security Consultant