Business Support Officer - Barnet in City of London

At Hft, we are recruiting for a full time Business Support Officer to join our team on a fixed term contract until May 2026. The individual will be a key team member for our East services based in Barnet. The role will consist of administration around finance, employee engagement and office management – see more about the role below. You may occasionally be required to travel to other locations within the regions, as agreed with your manager.

Apart from a rewarding career, what\’s in it for you?

There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training, and support along the way.

As a ‘Gold’ standard Investors in People accredited employer, we are committed to supporting colleague wellbeing as a priority. Within this, all Hft employees get access to Telus Health – the world’s biggest 24/7 colleague counselling and support service. It is completely free for all colleagues to use in complete confidence, whenever and however they want to access it.

What else?

• Annual Leave: 33 days (including 8 days statutory bank holidays)
• Training: Access to award winning training and development
• Wagestream: Allows you to flexibly access your pay throughout the month and utilise a range of financial support, through its dedicated app
• Aviva Digicare + workplace: Access to wellbeing services including health checks, Digital GP and mental health support.
• TELUS health: A 24/service, completely confidential counselling and support platform and helpline that is free for all colleagues to use.
• Discounted mobile ‘phone contracts. As an Hft employee, you’ll be able to take advantage of Vodafone’s Employee Advantage programme, giving you up to 30% off.
• Care Friends: Employee referral app – earn money for referring your friends to work for Hft.
• Free life assurance – 3 x your annual salary
• Family friendly policies – Part time, annualised and compressed hours. Generous return to work bonus following maternity leave.

About you

You will have previous administration experience and strong IT knowledge, including experience of using Microsoft Office with the ability to produce reports and presentations within Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Some experience of working with figures eg sales and purchase ledger or petty case and reconciliation work is preferred.

You will have a strong understanding of GDPR and experience managing sensitive data including workforce documentation. You thrive in a fast‑paced environment, where priorities frequently change and you are keen to learn and adapt to new systems and processes all while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.

We are really passionate about what we do and look for likeminded individuals with a positive attitude to people with learning disabilities!

About the role

As a Business Support Officer, you will support individual areas and provide positive and timely business support for the Care and Support function to meet their delivery of organisation business processes. This will include finance, data gathering, employee engagement/support (on‑board/off‑board), mobile phone device management and registered area office management. Whilst individual roles will be based locally within an area office (within the geographical region), the Business Support Officer will be part of the wider Business Support team for the Region and will report to the respective Regional Business Support Manager who will determine working patterns in collaboration with the Registered Area Managers.

Responsibilities include

• Invoicing and PO support
• Raising invoice recharges and journals including for example, online purchases for people we support, emergency cash advances, fuel, mileage and service car leases
• Income returns and support local banking
• Credit card reconciliations
• Petty cash management
• Fundraising income support
• Daily operational tasks e.g. answering the phone / responding to emails
• Dealing with support queries and redirecting appropriately
• Looking after incoming and outgoing post
• Liaising with visitors and contractors
• Employee / engagement support
• Agency support
• Health and safety management
• and other tasks as required.

We look forward to receiving your application.