Finance Business Partner - Conservation
| Posting date: | 03 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,725 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 October 2025 |
| Location: | CO5 7RZ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Essex Wildlife Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner – Conservation, supporting the financial function at Essex Wildlife Trust.
As Finance Business Partner – Conservation, you will be focused on providing finance support to Essex Wildlife Trust, with a particular a focus on the conservation operations across the Trust and including the subsidiaries, Thameside Nature Park and Chafford Gorges Ltd.
The role will be responsible for processing sales invoices, processing purchase ledger invoices for the wider Trust, and assisting in agricultural grants work and specific accounting transactions for the conservation team.
Ensuring transactions are recorded in a timely manner and accurately through the finance system, ready for analysis by the Assistant Accountant monthly.
This role is a permanent position. The hours of work are 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm) with a starting salary of £25,725 per annum. The base of work will be Abbotts Hall, Great Wigborough. Essex Wildlife Trust offers flexible homeworking arrangements. Further details of the hybrid-working arrangements will be shared at interview.
Please complete an online application form on our website by 5pm on Thursday 16 October. Interviews will be held on week commencing Monday 20 November at Abbotts Hall.
Our values are Impactful, Collaborative, United and Proactive.
As Finance Business Partner – Conservation, you will be focused on providing finance support to Essex Wildlife Trust, with a particular a focus on the conservation operations across the Trust and including the subsidiaries, Thameside Nature Park and Chafford Gorges Ltd.
The role will be responsible for processing sales invoices, processing purchase ledger invoices for the wider Trust, and assisting in agricultural grants work and specific accounting transactions for the conservation team.
Ensuring transactions are recorded in a timely manner and accurately through the finance system, ready for analysis by the Assistant Accountant monthly.
This role is a permanent position. The hours of work are 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm) with a starting salary of £25,725 per annum. The base of work will be Abbotts Hall, Great Wigborough. Essex Wildlife Trust offers flexible homeworking arrangements. Further details of the hybrid-working arrangements will be shared at interview.
Please complete an online application form on our website by 5pm on Thursday 16 October. Interviews will be held on week commencing Monday 20 November at Abbotts Hall.
Our values are Impactful, Collaborative, United and Proactive.
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