Group Finance Manager

As Group Finance Manager, you will play a leading role in the Enabling Services team at an innovative international charity focussed on climate initiatives, enabling the organization to deliver innovation that creates the change we have committed to, meet our funders’ needs, and support our partners and community 

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the Group Finance Manager, will oversee and manage the monthly close process, lead the preparation of year-end financial statements for the group, and coordinate the annual audit. These responsibilities should be underpinned by a focus on user experience and on fit-for-purpose platforms, processes, procedures, systems, and tools. 

Key Responsibilities
 

Management
•    Manage and develop 2-3 finance assistants
•    Manage interactions with teams across the organisation, collaborating in the key processes of financial management and provide guidance and advice to the business. 

Month-End Process and Close:
•    Oversee and manage the monthly close process, ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded and completed within the month end timetable.
•    Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring that all discrepancies are investigated and resolved in a timely manner.
•    Work with the finance team to ensure the accuracy of the trial balance and prepare key month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments, and provisions.
•    Ensure all intercompany transactions and balances are reconciled and eliminate intercompany profit, and are in line with transfer pricing requirements
•    Perform detailed variance analysis of key financial statements, including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
•    Collaborate with other departments (e.g., FP&A, clusters) to ensure accurate financial data for reporting.
•    Ensure compliance with internal controls and accounting policies throughout the close process.

Year-end accounts process
•    Lead the timely and accurate preparation of financial information in line with statutory reporting, management accounting, and funder requirements. 
•    Coordinate and lead the preparation and audit of the consolidated Group entities and branch financials. This includes: 
o    Liaising with the external auditors
o    Preparing and managing the timetable for preparation and audit of the financial statements, ensuring all financial statements are signed off within required timelines.
o    Assisting local teams in resolving audit queries as necessary, ensuring local audits are completed on time, within budget and with minimal issues or adjustments. 
o    Preparing consolidated financial statements

Local reporting and compliance
•    Manage reporting timelines including filing deadlines for assigned funds and all branches in the structure, and that all deadlines (e.g., lenders, investors, statutory) are met. 
•    Perform high-level review of local branches companies; review financial statements prepared by local teams
•    Ensure timely compliance with donors, audit and statutory reporting as required; ensure the remediation of audit recommendations and implementation of financial / risk reporting decisions by governance bodies. 

Controls and conintuous improvement
•    Drive strong financial control and advocate financial priorities to the business.  
•    Continuous improvement of ERP system for the finance team. 
•    Support financial and performance reviews using monthly dashboard. 
•    Report financial results and ensure compliance with GDPR Guidelines. 
•    Encourage and enable shared ownership of high integrity data. 
 

Education/Qualifications

• Holder of a recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, etc.) with over six years post qualification experience. 

Experience

• Experience in the preparation of management, statutory and Group consolidation accounts. 

• Substantial experience of working in complex entities with multi-national interests and distributed teams (working in different locations and through remote or virtual working) and experience of managing finance teams. 

• Experience of multiple sectors, ideally with a mix of public and private; experience in the not-for-profit sector/grant making environment including EU grant funding would be highly beneficial.