Job Description

We are looking for an energetic, responsive, and flexible individual committed to ensuring our financial management is fit for purpose and able to keep pace with our rapidly developing charity. You must be someone who is naturally curious, a relationship builder who is adept at managing multiple competing demands and is capable of the day to day bookkeeping but also experienced in managing the bigger picture.

This role would suit an experienced financial professional who is looking to give back to society by moving to a charity whose cause they care about.

Main responsibilities are to:

• Maintain and process information to produce timely, accurate management reports that inform and enable the organization to meet stakeholder needs 
• Play a key role in setting organization wide budgets based on business plans; work with budget holders to monitor and reforecast including producing a monthly rolling 18-month cash flow.
• Support the annual audit process taking oversight and responsibility for liaising with external auditors to ensure the accurate information is provided on time to meet required timescales.
• Take responsibility for maintaining and updating financial procedures and controls and educating and informing the wider organizations through workshops and inductions.
• Support the continuous improvement of the finance function together with the Head of Finance and Operations to ensure our financial governance is robust and meets the needs of the organization. For example support review of corporate tax, accounting systems and reports

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge and experience of managing financial systems especially SAGE, charity finance including fund accounting, VAT and tax with a high degree of attention to detail.
• Knowledge of how private sector businesses, government agencies and charities operate and what makes for good business, effective impact reporting and value for money.
• Supportive and understanding communicator able to speak simply without jargon 
• Optimistic energetic and with the ability to use numbers and processes to serve our purpose
• Initiative and courage to make and sustain changes so we can keep getting better at what we do
• Ability to ask “why” and question constructively