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A leading professional membership body with chartered status & based in central London is seeking a Financial Accountant on a full-time, permanent basis.

The organisation is a prestigious and historic professional body providing an impressive array of qualifications, services and resources to its members. The organisation has around 50 staff and 19,000 members.

The salary offered is £60,000 per annum, with excellent benefits.  The work is offered on a hybrid basis with approximately 2-3 days per week required onsite in the London office.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, the role will involve work across all aspects of the organisation’s financial reporting, planning and management cycles. This will include preparing income and tax-related month-end journals and balance sheet reconciliations for monthly management account reporting, management of all taxation requirements, involvement in the preparation of budgets and quarterly forecasts, and management of the year-end statutory reporting and the audit. The role will also involve leading on the finance aspects of an upcoming CRM project at the organisation.

The role does not line manage anyone, and you will be part of a finance team of 5 staff.

The organisation is ideally seeking a fully-qualified accountant with prior experience in the charity sector. Strong experience with charity VAT including partial exemption and demonstrable experience with charity year-end accounting and audit (SORP) are strongly desirable.

‍Duties will include:

· To complete the preparation of the annual statutory accounts in line with SORP requirements

· To support the Head of Finance with other year end tasks, as necessary i.e. manage the production of the draft trustees’ report for consideration by the Board.

· Provide cover for payroll when required

· Lead on the finance aspects of an upcoming CRM project

· To prepare templates for forecast and budget submissions from budget holders.

· Calculation and upload of the VAT budget and forecast, using (and maintaining) the VAT model.

· To prepare and submit quarterly VAT returns and annual adjustments, including partial exemption calculations.

· To prepare and post quarterly VAT journals and balance sheet reconciliations.

· To assist the Head of Finance with maintaining the VAT “bible”.

· To prepare, submit, and arrange payment for the annual PSA return.

· To complete and process any forms/correspondence required related to Withholding Tax matters.

· Provide support and guidance (bit not line manage) to the 2 Finance Officers around purchase and sales ledger etc

· To prepare month-end journals for income adjustments and other ad-hoc month-end journals

· To perform monthly duties relating to staff costs, including preparation of monthly salary journals, monthly reconciliation to payroll and pension records, and monthly balance sheet reconciliations.

· Balance sheet reconciliations where appropriate

Candidate requirements:

- Fully or part-qualified ACCA, CIMA or ACA

- Experience in a similar relevant hands-on financial accounting role

- Experience with project/CRM related projects desirable

- Experience in leading on the full production of year-end statutory accounts, ideally line with Charity SORP, and subsequent audit

- Taxation: Experience of VAT returns, including complex partial exemption calculations, knowledge of Charity Taxation, PSA returns and withholding tax matters. is desirable.

The role would be best suited to a candidate with demonstrable experience in a similar financial accounting role in a comparable organisation.

Please note that interviews will be on a rolling basis for this position.

Please send your CV for immediate consideration.

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Tearfund has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Accountant to join our newly created Global Controllers Team. 

Reporting to the Deputy Financial Controller, you will form part of the team responsible for preparing the annual statutory accounts and managing the external audit process for the organisation, as well as developing and improving our financial systems and processes. 

Keen to take on a new challenge, you will be able to work under pressure to achieve deadlines. You will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) and have significant and varied post qualification experience in financial reporting, audit and transaction processing. 

We are looking for someone who is:

• Excited to lead projects to design and implement process simplifications and efficiencies
• A team player
• Able to communicate with staff at all levels across the organisation. 

Do your skills match the above? Then we'd love to hear from you!

Applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.

Please note, we will be conducting interviews while the advert is live and the role will close as soon as a suitable candidate is found.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and those from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds (in our UK workforce) as these groups are currently under-represented at Tearfund.

This role is eligible for hybrid working and you will be required to work from a designated Tearfund office and from your home by agreement with the line manager

All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs

The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.

Senior Finance Business Partner

Charity based in Belfast.

Permanent position

Hybrid working ( 2 days in the office)

Salary £50,000 - £53,000

Client is reviewing and interviewing on a rolling basis.

What's the Role?

The Senior Management Accountant will be reporting into the Head of Finance, your main responsibilities would be:

• Lead and manage a team of management accountants, providing guidance, support, and motivation.
• Act as the first line reviewer for the work produced by the management accounting team; such as monthly management accounts, budget builds, costing schedules
• Oversee the timely completion of all management accounting tasks and projects, such as pack to Trustees
• Serve as the main point of contact between the management accounting team and the Head of Finance and in conjunction with the regional directors' matrix.

What do you need to succeed?

• A full accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Proven experience in management accounting, with a minimum of 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
• In-depth knowledge of accounting principles, financial analysis, and reporting.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Demonstrate experience of use of computerised finance packages and experience in excel

Where would you work?

Hybrid set up - Remote & Central Office, Belfast

• Paid accountancy subscriptions
• 5 hour working with flexibility around start and finish times
• Pension plan
• Death in Service
• Paid annual leave, which increases with length of service
• Free Parking at office
• Occupational sick pay
• Employer funded Healthcare scheme
• Savings on high street retail outlets and gym membership

Financial Reporting Accountant | £50,000 - £54,632 | Permanent | Fully Remote / Home Based

For the UK's largest not-for-profit social enterprise in the employment and social mobility sector, we are recruiting a Financial Reporting Accountant. This role will ensure all subsidiaries of the Group are following correct accounting standards and will lead on year-end accounting, Audit activity, external reporting and the preparation of consolidated accounts. There is also the opportunity to work on a VAT optimisation project for a new entity. This role will suit someone who is fully qualified, happy to work fully remotely, and with experience of financial reporting within multiple entities.

Main Duties:

• Prepare statutory year-end accounts across the Group companies
• Preparation of the Group consolidations
• Preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations across the group companies
• Preparation of reporting and financial information for internal and external stakeholders
• Work with Auditors as and when required
• Support a new VAT project focused on VAT optimisation within a new entity
• Ensure all financial software systems have strong controls
• Drive continuous improvement in processes
• Ensure financial implications of all new policies are correctly interpreted and implemented

Person Specification:

• ACA or ACCA Qualified
• Substantial experience of preparing final accounts and consolidation for a group of entities
• Strong technical financial ability and experience of external financial reporting
• Ability to embrace change and drive continuous improvement
• Excellent Excel skills and ideally experience with Agresso Business World

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As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

Finance Lead (Management Accountant)

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reports to: Head of Finance

Hours of work: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £41,350 per annum (including London Weighting)

Place of work: Flexible working but with 3 days a week in our London office and occasional travel to our Finance Office in Silsden in West Yorkshire. You will need to travel to L’Arche Communities you are responsible for from time to time.

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: Sunday 8 September 2024, 23:59h

As well as joining a friendly Community, where you will be well supervised and supported, and benefit from L’Arche’s mentorship programme, these are some other benefits you get by working for us:

• Joining shared meals since cooking and having a meal together is what we are all about
• Paid sick pay, up to a maximum of 7wks (depending on length of service)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption/Surrogacy, and Paternity Pay (depending on length of service, details available on request)
• Interest free loans and salary advances available
• Free eye tests and a contribution towards the cost of glasses if you need them for work
• Free DBS / PVG checks
• Free SSSC registration
• Free Blue Light Card
• Professional membership fees paid if they are directly relevant to your role
• Free Employee Assistance Programme available to everyone
• Up to 5 days paid compassionate leave
• Up to 6 days paid (pro rata) for time off for emergency dependents leave
• Carer and Childminder costs available in some circumstances to facilitate attendance at residential meetings
• Paid mileage costs at HMRC rate
• Working from Home Allowance for those in office-based roles but for whom no office is provided
• Specialist bereavement counselling for employees and their family members
• Free Life Assurance up to 4 times gross annual salary
• Access to the Bike to Work scheme

Main purpose of the role:

Be one of four Finance Leads sharing responsibility to produce Community Management Accounts. Other duties include line managing one or two Bookkeepers, ensuring that Management Accounts results are discussed with Community Leaders/ Directors, leading on the Budget process for assigned Communities, and leading on the Housing Benefit/ Rent Increase process for assigned Communities. 

Essential Criteria

• Commitment to live out L'Arche values;
• Part qualified Accountant;
• Relevant experience across a range of financial management and budgeting disciplines;
• Effective leadership and people management skills;
• High level of competence in ID systems;
• A confident, approachable, emotionally intelligent colleague;
• Resilient and self-aware, analytical and creative skills to problem-solve;
• Able to work flexibly, and travel to Silsden, where part of the Finance Team is based;

ABOUT L'ARCHE

L’Arche is a worldwide federation of people with and without learning disabilities, working together for a world where all belong. We believe in the transforming impact of genuinely mutual relationships between people with and without disabilities.

In the UK, L’Arche is a registered charity with 11 Communities across England, Scotland and Wales. We celebrate people with learning disabilities, and build communities with them rather than for them. We go beyond supporting people’s basic needs. We attend to their emotional and inner lives, by building spaces of vibrant friendship, opportunity, spirituality and community life.

A full job description and person specification can be found in the attached Recruitment Pack.

The closing date is midnight on Sunday 8 September 2024. Interviews will take place on 19 September 2024.

To apply, please read the full job description and person specification and answer the questions on our online application form. 

Please also read our privacy notice for job applicants.

We are looking for a part-time Assistant Management Accountant to support our Finance team whilst a member of staff is on maternity leave.

This new role will support our Finance team by taking on the following responsibilities:

• Management accounts preparation
• Management accounts variance analysis
• Annual budget preparation
• Audit preparation
• Other duties as deemed appropriate

The successful applicant will have the following experience:

• Competent user of Sage, Excel, Word Outlook and other Office 365 programs

• AAT Qualified or Part Qualified preferred (qualified by experience will be considered)

• Charity Finance experience (preferable but not essential)

This is part-time, fixed-term role. Flexible 15 hours per week where days, hours and location can be discussed and a 12 month contract with potential to be extended.

Salary is £32,000-£35,000 FTA pa pro rata (£12,800-£14,000).

Deadline for applications in Sunday 1st September 2024, however recruitment may close early if a great candidate is found.  See our website for more details.

About the role:

We understand that a spinal cord injury can be devastating, but we believe it shouldn’t prevent anyone from getting the most out of life. And we’re here to help make sure that can happen. We provide a range of services for people affected by spinal cord injury, and this provides us with a unique insight into the issues they face in their day-to-day lives.

The role of Head of Data and Systems is a new one and reflects the growth and diversification of how we reach our audience and offer them support. We want to reach everyone affected by spinal cord injury across the UK.

To do that, we are embarking on a significant change programme to become a ‘data enabled organisation’, which will ultimately involve replacing the systems we currently use.

As our Head of Data and Systems, you will design and lead this exciting phase in our development. Reporting to the Data Protection Officer and working with the Data and Systems Manager, you will work across the whole organisation.

You will take responsibility for the programme at every stage, using your technical skills equally with your ability to support and influence others to bring about organisation-wide change.

Above all, you will be passionate about being able to demonstrate the impact of what we do, and you will see for yourself how Back Up quite literally transforms lives every day.

About us:

At Back Up, we have big ambitions. Over the next few years, we’re going to be transforming the lives of even more people affected by spinal cord injury.

Together we’ll be working hard to make sure everyone affected by spinal cord injury has access to the support they deserve; and we are the only spinal cord injury charity in the UK providing specific services to children and young people. 

At Back Up, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. Please read our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy Statement. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. We particularly welcome applications from those from black, Asian or ethnic minority backgrounds or those with higher level spinal injuries.

In 2024 Back Up won The Times and The Sunday Times Spotlight Award for Best place to work for disabled employees. As well as this, Back Up has been voted one of the top ten charities to work for (Third Sector Best Charities 2020). The enthusiastic, inclusive and supportive spirit of our very skilled staff ensure excellence in the services we deliver.

Head of Financial Accounting & Finance Systems
£60,000 - £64,000 per year
Permanent, Full-time
Hybrid working, 2 days a week in the office
Office based in Central London

A national children’s charity are looking to recruit a Head of Financial Accounting & Finance Systems. You will ensure the integrity of the accounting records and financial reporting. You will lead the statutory accounts preparation, year-end audits and month-end close. This role will play a lead role in employing strong financial controls and statutory compliance while managing and developing staff, building key relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring compliance and driving department efficiencies, improving processes and financial controls. This role will also oversee and ensure the organisations finance systems are working effectively

Key areas of responsibility:

• Lead the accounting activities across the group, including financial accounting. Responsible for ensuring the TB and GL is maintained and accurate. Ensuring there is a strong financial control environment. Overseeing payment runs.
• Lead the year end processes including preparation of statutory financial statements and disclosure notes for the charity.
• Lead the month end close process and balance sheet reconciliations. Reviewing team reconciliations and supporting them to identify and resolve unreconciled items

Who are we looking for?

• A formally qualified Accountant 
• Relevant experience in a financial controls setting
• An excellent communicator who is able to influence at all levels within the organisation.
• Experience of leading/assisting with year end and Audit

My client is fully open to sector experience. As such we welcome candidates from industry, charity or practice backgrounds.

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) on their search for an Accounting Officer to be responsible for the financial and budgeting operations of the CTO.

This role is remote, open to nationals of the 33 CTO member states, and is offered on part-time basis (2 days a week) in the first instance with the possibility of becoming full-time after the initial 6 months of the contract.

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation is the oldest and largest Commonwealth membership organisation in the field of information and communication technologies. Today, the CTO plays an integral role in providing 21st-century thinking, knowledge, understanding and leadership to its members, helping them to shape their digital futures. They are fully involved in the development and use of digital ICT for social and economic development and are at the forefront of the ICT revolution to deliver significant benefits to its members.

Reporting to the Finance and Pensions Manager, this plays a pivotal role in developing and continuously revising the CTO's budgets, financial rules, and regulations. The post holder will control all areas of expenditure and on the revenue side, the Accounting Officer will ensure all receivables are accounted for, actualised, and appropriately posted. The Accounting Officer will ensure the accounting software package is optimised and will be expected to prudently manage the CTO's cash flow and investment activities. The incumbent will work closely with the IT Administrator to develop and/or revise the accounting system that will be used by the CTO.

We are looking for a detail-oriented accounting professional with significant experience in a similar capacity in an organisation with a comparable scope and complexity. You will have strong finance and accountancy experience, as well as solid analytical skills and excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Specialised knowledge of Pension Fund Management would be desirable, but not essential.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

In order to apply, please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a phone call to brief you on the role.

Finance Officer

Leicester Cathedral is looking to appoint to the role Finance Officer.

Based in the Cathedral Offices at St Martins House, the Finance Officer works as part of a small team looking after the day-to-day accounting requirements of the Cathedral but supports the senior team with its strategic aims. In a fast-changing environment, the Finance Officer will help navigate the financial landscape and help to create a financially savvy workforce and financial literacy throughout the Cathedral organisation.

Please note that you must be a part or fully qualified AAT or ACCA accountant.

The Finance Officer will be a proactive and conscientious member of the Finance team undertaking the following key duties:

• Assist the Chief Financial Officer using a wide range of administrative and computer skills as well as maintaining a range of knowledge and understanding of procedures, protocols, and functions
• Help maintain a policy of regular review and tight control of the Cathedral’s finances using forecasting, and key performance indicators using financial measures
• Looking after the day-to-day accounting requirements of the Cathedral but supports the senior team with its strategic aims
• Help the Cathedral ensure a clear and fundamental understanding of its financial operations at all stages of the year

For full details please see the Job Description on our website.

Salary
£30,000 (Band 4)
Plus non-contributory pension scheme (8% of gross salary)
Plus Life Assurance (0.5% of gross salary)
25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Tenure
Full-time, permanent contract

Hours
Monday-Friday, 9.00am-5.00pm

With flexibility to attend occasional evening and weekend meetings/events

We are particularly keen to receive applications from UKME/GMH people who are currently under-represented in the Cathedral team.

How to apply

To apply for this position, please send a completed application form with a covering letter (of no more than two sides of A4) that demonstrates how you meet the criteria and skills set out in the Person Specification (CVs alone will not be accepted).

Deadline: 12 noon on Friday 27 September 2024
Shortlisting will take place w/c Monday 30 September 2024
Interviews will take place on Friday 18 October 2024

Full details of the interview process will be provided to short-listed candidates nearer the time.

Head of Financial Accounting and Systems Improvements

Location: Homebased/hybrid, within commutable distance of Central Office, London.
Contract Type: Permanent/ Full time
Salary: £65,000 per annum
Hours: 37.5
Benefits: Generous Holiday allowance Season Ticket loan Cycle to work scheme Charity worker discounts Enhanced maternity package Wellness, inclusion, and diversity groups EAP scheme Life assurance.

Are you ready to take your finance career to the next level? Do you thrive on driving change and ensuring financial excellence in an organisation? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

About the Role:

As the Head of Financial Accounting and Systems Improvements, you will play a pivotal role in revolutionising how our finance department operates. You will ensure that all key financial documents are created in a timely way, providing the organisation with strong and robust financial procedures and information. Your leadership will empower the finance team and the wider organisation to embrace new systems and innovative ways of working.

Key responsibilities include:

Sage Intacct Champion: Lead and support the rollout of Sage Intacct across the organisation, fostering a culture of "self-serve" budgeting and empowering budget holders.

Process Improvement: Continuously review and enhance finance processes for efficiency, documenting the department's methods through a comprehensive Statement of Operating Practice.

Dashboard Implementation: Introduce and manage the use of dashboards, providing real-time insights across the organisation.

Team Leadership: You'll manage and mentor the Finance Officer and Finance Assistant, ensuring their professional development aligns with the department’s Key Performance Indicators. Your leadership will set the standard for excellence and growth.

Collaboration: You'll work closely with key stakeholders, including the Head of Commercial Accounting, Strategic Business Partnering, and the Director of Finance & ICT, to ensure budget holders have timely, accurate financial information. Your goal? Deliver a 5-star service to the organization!

Why Join Us?

This is more than just a finance role—it's an opportunity to be at the forefront of financial transformation. If you're a dynamic leader with a passion for process improvement and systems innovation, we want to hear from you!

What Pact Offer:

Pact offers a wide range of employee benefits including free confidential advice and counselling service, cycle to work scheme, life assurance, eye care vouchers, generous annual leave plus more. You will have the chance to attend internal training events to further develop yourself as an effective support worker and undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.

How to apply:

If you feel you meet the requirements of this post, please complete an application form by clicking the 'apply now' button.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Other information:

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applications including those with a criminal conviction (appointment to post is subject to a risk assessment).

This post is subject to a 6-month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a 3-year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), Disclosure and Barring Service check.

If you have lived overseas for over 12 months (in the past 10 years while aged 18 or over), you will need to supply a certificate of good conduct from the Police Force of the country of residence.

Pact (the Prison Advice & Care Trust) is a pioneering national charity that provides caring and life changing services to men and women in prison, to people with convictions on release and in the community, and to their children and families.

Pact’s vision is of a society in which justice is understood as a process of restoration and healing, in which prisons are used sparingly and as places of learning and rehabilitation, and in which the innate dignity and worth of every human being is valued. We work for the common good of Society, taking a public health-based approach. We work at the intersection of criminal justice, child and family welfare, mental health, wellbeing provision and health & social care.

Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales. We are a diverse, inclusive, modern, and collaborative charity. We build effective partnerships and sustainable solutions based on our well-established understanding of the systems in which we work, and on our historic values and ethos developed through our 120+ years of service delivery.

As an inclusive employer, we welcome requests for job adverts and descriptions in accessible formats (for e.g. larger text) for candidates with disabilities, including those with neurodiversity.

You may have experience in the following: of Financial Accounting, Financial Systems Improvement Manager, Head of Finance Systems, Financial Operations Director, Director of Accounting and Systems, Chief Accounting Officer, Financial Systems Optimization Lead, Financial Process Improvement Manager, Director of Financial Reporting and Systems, and Head of Accounting Transformation.

REF-216344

A leading Multi-Academy Trust of primary & secondary schools based in the southern part of the East Midlands is seeking an interim Management Accountant to start a role as soon as possible.

The role will involve producing management accounts and business partnering to a range of budget holders in schools across the region. The role also involves costing and cost analysis, interpreting complex financial data, journal postings and assisting with year-end close.

The trust are looking for an experience management accountant, with recent hands-on experience to cover a gap in the team. Experience from the higher education sector or facilities sector would be advantageous but not essential. 

The role is paying £50,000 - £55,000 per annum and will be largely onsite at the schools across the region, and the Trust’s head office, with some hybrid/home-working.

Requirements:

-Ideally finalist or fully-qualified CIMA, ACCA, ACA, however strong part-qualified candidates considered
-The ability to be flexible on work location within the region
-Previous experience producing management accounts
-Demonstrable experience business partnering to a range of stakeholders
-Strong understanding of budgeting
-The ability to interpret complex financial information’
-Hands-on experience, journal posting etc
-Experience with costing/cost-analysis desirable

The salary offered is £50,000 - £55,000 per annum and will likely be on a 3 month fixed term contract basis.

Please send your CV for immediate consideration.

Profile:

The person appointed to this post will be passionate about the concerns and needs of older and vulnerable people within the local community. They must have an empathetic heart, work effectively as a team member, and agree to follow Evergreen’s ethos and values.

Job Purpose and Role:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a busy and expanding charity and work within a dynamic team. The finance manager is responsible for support and maintenance of financial services and reporting to senior management.  These duties include but are not limited to supporting the Finance Officer, maintaining accounts functions, budgeting and assisting in the drafting of monthly management reports.

Responsibilities

Reporting directly to the COO the Finance Manager will support and assist the Finance Officer in all routine bookkeeping duties, ensuring the smooth running of financial operations.  The Finance Manager ensures that effective methods are put in place to meet current and upcoming regulations of Charities e.g. Charities SORP (FRS102).

Duties (this list is not exhaustive)

· Supervision of regular posting of purchase and sales ledger entries.

· Preparing monthly management accounts, including comparatives to budgets, trends and forecasts.

· Compiling Balance sheet reconciliations

· Facilitating the use of account software to generate management accounts reports.

· Preparing quarterly ‘Income and Expenditure’ reports for Managers.

· Preparing interim/final financial project reports for submission to funders.

· Providing accurate and timely financial information to support the organisational financial strategy and decision-making process

· Ensuring all transactions are recorded, filed and reported correctly

· Streamlining and improving accounting systems, controls and process environment

· Reviewing and updating the current organisation's policies and procedures

· Preparing supporting schedules for annual audits and working with external accountants to assist in the preparation of annual financial statements.

Knowledge

As an experienced Finance Manager, you must be knowledgeable in the following areas:

· Proven expertise with computerised accounts systems.

· An understanding of Liberty Account software would be an added advantage.

· Understanding of Charities Commission requirements

· Highly proficient computer skills including in-depth knowledge of Excel and major Microsoft programs

· GCSE Mathematics and English

· AAT Level 3 or equivalent

· Good editing, data collection, and record-keeping with analysis skillset

Our partner is a key player within the international development sector, working on programme delivery through partners in Africa. They are seeking to recruit a qualified accountant to offer finance capacity building support, and drive improvements in the financial management of their key delivery partner in Liberia. The role is a 12 month FTC, and is an excellent opportunity for an accountant (even newly qualified) looking to break into international charity finance, or someone looking for their first international charity finance posting.

Responsibilities

• Review and strengthen the control environment, implementing recommendations, and working with and coaching staff to ensure that these are understood and adhered to consistently.
• Support in the development of and adherence to processes around cash management, recording and allocation of income and expenditure, and procurement.
• Lead in the development of and adherence to proper financial management tools and processes; month-end processes; and full grants cycle management covering due diligence, proposal development, compliance, management and reporting.
• Support the local staff in their confidence in using finance systems.
• Lead in aspects of the financial management and reporting – including annual budget preparation, monthly management accounts, BVA analysis and reporting; and monthly accounts close.
• Coach the finance team and other staff members as required.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant with a strong technical accounting background – an understanding of controls, processes and financial management.
• Knowledge of institutional donors, including the UK, European and US governments, and UN agencies, is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of fund accounting, and understanding of restricted and unrestricted accounting within an international charity.
• Strong interpersonal skills; experienced in leading change, and working with a range of staff and characters.
• Strong systems skills.
• Patient and adaptable, resilient a self-starter, capable of working independently and prioritising a varied workload.

The role is a 12 month FTC, and is an excellent opportunity for an accountant (even newly qualified) looking to break into international charity finance, or someone looking for their first international charity finance posting.