World Land Trust
Address: Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8AB
Salary: £25,500 - £27,950 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Reference: 0886
The role of the Finance Assistant is to assist the organisation in accurately processing day-to-day financial transactions of the charity and its wholly owned subsidiary. This role will include accurately and efficiently processing and recording income transactions, maintenance of the Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger, and supporting the finance team with other duties as appropriate.
What you will need
The ideal candidate will have experience in finance, accounts, bookkeeping or a similar administrative role, with a proven ability to process financial transactions accurately, maintain financial records and use finance systems, Office 365 and Excel effectively. You will have a good understanding of basic accounting processes, ideally with a relevant qualification, strong numerical and organisational skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to handle confidential information sensitively.
You will work with teams across the organisation so should also be customer focused, with strong communication skills and the ability to build positive working relationships. You will need to be able to work independently and as part of a team, use logic and sound judgement to resolve routine finance issues, and demonstrate a reliable, proactive and conscientious approach to work.
About us
Join World Land Trust (WLT), an international conservation charity dedicated to protecting the world’s most threatened habitats and species. Working with trusted local conservation partners across the globe, we help communities protect and restore land to safeguard biodiversity and tackle the climate crisis.
You’ll be joining a passionate and committed team whose work has a tangible impact on the protection of wildlife, habitats and local communities around the world. This is an opportunity to use your finance skills to support a global conservation mission and be part of an organisation where your contribution truly makes a difference.
What we will offer you
Flexible Working - We offer flexible and hybrid working because we know how important a healthy work-life balance is to our team. The majority of full-time staff work a 9-day fortnight, and we support hybrid working where the role allows. Our core working days are Tuesday to Thursday with non-working days falling on either Mondays or Fridays and our normal office hours are 9am - 5pm. At the same time, we value in-person collaboration, so the successful candidate will need to be within commuting distance of our Halesworth offices and able to spend at least one day a week working on site with the Finance team, ideally a Tuesday, although there is office space if you wish to work the majority or all of your hours in the office.
Annual leave - we offer 36 days’ annual leave (including Bank Holidays) plus an additional discretionary day each year to volunteer for a charity or community organisation of your choice.
Group personal pension scheme - investing in companies that can demonstrate positive application of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, which ensures that our pension scheme operates in line with our Values. We also offer Pension Salary Exchange as a way of making tax-efficient contributions into your workplace pension based on an employer contribution of 5% and an employee contribution of 3%.
Group life assurance - whilst we hope our staff live long and happy lives, we want to give some peace of mind and this benefit provides a lump sum payment of 4x salary.
For a full list of our benefits, please see the Application pack below.
To find out more
Please see our Application Pack (pdf) for full details of the role.
Alternatively, please contact Debby or Kizzy by emailing: [email protected].
How to apply
To apply, please follow the application guidance within the application pack or visit our website.
Closing date: 9am, 24 August 2026.
Interview dates: 3 and 4 September 2026.
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