Financial Controller

Job Title: Financial Controller

Organisation: National Charity

Location: Fully-remote

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 12 month FTC

Salary: £50,000 per annum

A medium sized national charity is seeking a Financial Controller for a fully-remote / home-based role to start as soon as possible.

The role is a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.

Reporting to the Head of Finance and managing a team of 3 Finance Officers, the core areas of the role are:

-Team management: motivating, empowering and developing three team members

-Transaction processing and financial controls: managing the month end close and ensuring that transactions are accurately recorded and compliant with relevant legislation

-Year-end accounts preparation and external audit: managing the year end timetable and tasks and acting as the key liaison for our external auditors (year-end is March)

-Cash flow forecasting and management: monitoring cash balances and preparing reports for inclusion in management information

-VAT, Payroll, Gift Aid and Direct Debit processing and submissions

-Finance systems: complete routine user acceptance testing of finance systems and play a key role in any finance system development projects (Microsoft Great Plains is finance system)

-Finance business partnering: meeting with specific budget holders to discuss budget variances, and reforecast on a monthly basis

Requirements:

-Ideally fully-qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA accountant (part-qualified considered if significant experience)

-Must be able to start the role quickly – immediate or 1 week notice period preferable, up to 1 month considered

-Strong experience leading on the preparation of annual statutory accounts in line with Charity SORP

-Prior experience leading a charity audit

-Experience managing a team

-Strong experience with transaction processing and financial controls

-Strong understanding of charity tax and VAT

Closing date & interviews : ASAP/ongoing

Please send your CV for immediate consideration.