Tipping Point UK is a not-for-profit worker cooperative working nimbly behind the scenes to build, train,support, resource, organise and mobilise hundreds of diverse grassroots groups into networks tackling the intersections between climate, social, economic and racial justice.
The purpose of this consultancy role is to provide the Tipping Point UK staff team with clarity of our organisational budget and finances as well as serve as the primary liaison between Tipping Point UK’s fiscal host and our staff team. You will provide regular bookkeeping and financial reporting as well as serve as the primary point of contact for all questions related to payroll, budgeting, income and expenses.
Start Date: 16 September 2024
Application deadline: 27 August 2024
Interviews: from 2 September 2024
Contract and compensation:
- Consultancy contract
- Day rate (7 hours per day): £158-178
- Day rate is determined by a social justice compensation model that determines day rates based on whether team members have children or dependents, and/or any inherited wealth.
- 1 day per week from 16 September 2024 to 31 July 2025, with potential to be extended.
- Location: This remote work can be done from anywhere in the UK. Occasional travel required. The candidate must reside in the UK and have permission to work in the UK
- Individuals or organisations are eligible to respond to this request. Subcontracting is not allowed.
Essential criteria
- Experience working with payroll and invoicing processes.
- Proven bookkeeping skills and experience of creating and managing budgets
- Proactive and well organised, with strong administrative skills and the ability to work autonomously and independently to meet internal and external deadlines
- Experience of managing processes or projects that require close attention to detail
- Proficient in use of Airtable, Slack and Google Workspace
- Previous experience working with not-for-profit organisations and/or worker owned cooperatives
- Responsive and communicative
Responsibilities
Serve on our Funding Working Group
- Take responsibility for management of our budget, forecasting, expenditure tracking and fundraising.
- Take responsibility for action points that arise from Funding Working Group meetings related to the responsibilities listed below.
- Represent Funding Working Group at monthly organisational development meetings with our full cooperative membership
Bookkeeping and financial reporting:
- Provide monthly budget to actual summary, balance sheet and other reports as necessary to our internal staff meetings of our cooperative
- maintain our financial processes and compliance.
- Ensure our internal accounting matches our account with our fiscal host
- Maintain asset registry
- Work with members of Funding Working Group to create budgets and financial reports for funding bids and grant reports.
Payroll services:
- Work with our fiscal hosts to deliver monthly payroll, pensions and invoice payments on time. Send any temporary or long term payroll changes to fiscal host by the 15th of each month and update capacity changes in our internal systems.
Fiscal host liaison
- Serve as main point of contact for our fiscal host as well as the primary liaison between staff and our fiscal host
Database management
- Update our internal database when there are long term staff capacity changes to reflect staff at their correct capacities in our financial and leave tracking systems.
Payment processing
- Review and approve payment requests
- Review and approve card payment requests
- Make card payments for staff when needed
How to Apply
We ask everyone to read our Organising Principles before applying. Please complete this application form.
We also ask all candidates to complete a separate and confidential Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Form
If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected]
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