Accountancy, Banking and Finance

Company and Role Overview 

Step into a pivotal role within a leading UK not-for-profit organisation, where your financial expertise will fuel global impact and drive meaningful change. Our client are on the search for an experienced Finance Lead to offer support for a minimum of one year.
 

Main Responsibilities 

• Spearhead financial operations to propel the organisation's vision and strategy forward.
• Safeguard investments with integrity while maximising returns.
• Offer expert financial guidance to trustees, directors, and staff, fostering strategic planning and bolstering financial acumen.
• Establish and maintain robust financial systems and processes to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory standards.
• Oversee Tax (Gift Aid etc)
• Support year end

Requirements 

• Qualified accountant
• Proficiency in finance systems
• Knowledgeable on Charities SORP, statutory accounting regulations, and tax matters.
• Charity experience
• Analytical thinker with exceptional communication skills.
• Effective presenter with influence over key decision-makers.

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Strategise assignments and coordinating with clients to address their needs and key aspects of the task.
• Evaluating the feasibility of outsourcing versus in-house completion of tasks.
• Formulating budgets and timelines, obtaining client approval, and ensuring adherence to these parameters.
• Supervising the progress of assignments, delegating tasks, and reviewing staff work to maintain quality standards.
• Engaging in business development activities.
• Offering prompt feedback to partners regarding client issues and delivering well-organized files with minimal review requirements.
• Identifying potential additional revenue streams for the firm and discussing these opportunities with clients.
• Overseeing team performance and development to ensure consistent high-quality work, providing timely feedback to team members, and regularly updating partners on team progress.
• Ensuring punctual completion of milestones, probationary reviews, and annual appraisals.
• Fulfilling any other responsibilities necessary for the role's execution.

Requirements

• ACA/ACCA qualification with strong technical proficiency.
• Demonstrated success in managing portfolios.
• Exceptional communication abilities in written and verbal English.
• Essential experience in statutory and management accounting within a Mid-Tier Practice.
• Vital experience in team management and development.
• Up-to-date knowledge of UK GAAP accounting standards.
• Proficient in IT, advantageous experience with Xero, CaseWare, Sage, and CCH.

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Maintain and oversee financial processes and controls to ensure completeness and accuracy of monetary information.
• Oversee the payroll process and relationship with the external payroll bureaux to ensure staff are compensated accurately and in compliance with HMRC regulations.
• Supervise the month-end close process, including review and questioning of monthly performance reports with budget holders.
• Generate monthly management accounts by agreed deadlines, including insightful commentary to elucidate results against expected performance.
• Manage the year-end process to produce the accounts to trial balance for our client and its subsidiary, working in close collaboration with the Director of Finance and Operations.
• Prepare year end audit file working papers and support the creation of financial statements and liaison with auditors.
• Take the lead in preparing reports on a regular and as-needed basis according to funders/donors requests by collaborating with the Fundraising team to understand reporting requirements and timelines, supporting in the preparation of donor presentations, applications, and budgets where appropriate.
• Assist the Director of Finance and Operations in the annual review of monetary policies and procedures.
• Oversee the production of the annual budget process and intermittent forecasts.
• Oversee the reconciliation of banked income with the Fundraising system.
• Reconcile all nominal ledger control accounts monthly, investigating queries and approving any resulting journal entries.
• Lead the project to improve or upgrade the financial system, working with other stakeholders to collect user requirements, contribute to the analysis of the tender submissions and selection of vendor, and lead in the implementation of the new system within agreed project timescales.
• Supervise the petty cash, banking, monthly cash flow, expenses, and credit card processes, ensuring staff are reimbursed by agreed deadlines.
• Maintain and update the fixed assets register.
• Oversee quarterly VAT returns and supporting schedules.

Requirements

• Professional experience of working as a Finance Manager or similar
• Charity Finance experience
• Hands-on transaction processing with strategic input
• Proven experience of managing payroll

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Help maintain the automated and scalable accounting function that produces accurate monthly Management Reports within 5 days of the end of the month.
• Take ownership of and improve/automate the processes of invoice payments (AP) and expenses management
• Claim responsibility to p improve/automate corporate bank reconciliation processes and help build relevant integrations with the finance ledger
• Improve and pre-set all reconciliations of revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities and equity
• Support the office team, developers and trading teams on improving trading data and computerizing the data feeds into the ledger
• Help build a robust and scalable budgeting and forecasting model
• Help with the annual group audits covering multiple entities
• Financial Planning and Analysis: computerise and design reporting, both internal management reporting and external reporting to partners, investors, authorities, etc.
• Direct and indirect tax computations and reporting
• Adhoc project work as required

Requirements

• BSc in Accounting, Finance or other relevant field with a significant quantitative element

• Recognized accounting qualification such as ACCA, ACA or CIMA with one or more years post qualified experience
• Advanced Excel and modelling skills
• Experience with the best-in-class automation systems and functions where scalability is driven by technology, rather than headcount and manual work