The Highland Weigh, established in January 2022, is a zero-waste store and vegetarian café located on Nairn High Street.
The Highland Weigh, established in January 2022, is a zero-waste store and vegetarian café located on Nairn High Street. The purpose of this eco-friendly, social enterprise is to offer Highlanders the opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint by reducing plastic usage and food waste, as well as supporting local businesses. With its mission to promote sustainability, The Highland Weigh not only provides a wide range of zero-waste products, but also serves as a community hub for like-minded individuals who are passionate about environmental conservation. The addition of a vegetarian café further enhances the experience, allowing visitors to enjoy delicious plant-based meals while contributing to a more sustainable future.
The Opportunity – Volunteer Book-keeper
We are looking for someone to help our thriving Social Enterprise in Nairn. We need someone to support us in a Book-keeping capacity to support the interface between the staff team and the accountants who complete our annual accounts. Someone with a bit of background in accounting who would like to keep a hand in; someone who likes a nice coffee and a chat in a friendly place. We believe that this role will help keep our annual accountancy fees affordable and help to build the skills of the staff team in terms of managing our accounts system in an efficient and appropriate manner. To that end we are looking for someone to be a mentor for our young office manager as they learn this side of the business.
Skills required:
• Knowledge of how to navigate accounts systems - we use Xero. • Review Nominal Ledger Postings • Reconcile Control Account balances - e.g. Payroll, VAT etc. • Prepare and enter manual journals as required - e.g. calculate and post depreciation. • Produce Monthly / quarterly management accounts - these are produced from our accounting package, XERO. • Produce Year End accounts for consideration by our accountants who would then submit to Companies House.
Please let us know.
If you are interested in this position, please request an application form by sending an email to Contactus@highlandweigh.co.uk
Training can be provided on the Xero accounts system
Must be over 18