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We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced finance professional to join our team and play a vital role in our continued success. As Finance Manager, you will have the opportunity to positively impact local lives by leading and overseeing all aspects of our financial operations. You will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of our financial reporting, while also providing strategic financial insights to support our mission. You will be a member of the Wider Senior Leadership Team (SLT), working closely with the CEO, Board of Trustees, and internal teams to ensure our financial sustainability and resilience. This is a hands-on role with a mix of strategic and operational tasks and is essential to the success of our 3-year strategy, maintaining best practice financial controls and budgetary oversight, and meeting statutory obligations.
You will be part of an upbeat, skilled team within a values-led organisation that focuses on the wellbeing of its staff. You’ll make an important contribution to our culture of togetherness, inclusivity, respect, and passion in our mission to see no good food going to waste in the South West.
Duties & Responsibilities
Leadership
- Lead and mentor a small finance team, fostering a culture of professionalism, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring the day-to-day smooth efficient running of the finance function.
- Contribute to strategy development and implementation as part of the wider SLT.
- Work closely with the CEO, Deputy CEO and Board of Trustees to facilitate good governance and risk management, including attendance at the monthly Finance Sub-Committee.
- Manage, maintain and develop financial systems and controls, increasing their impact and quality and implementing best practices in financial management.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant financial regulations and reporting requirements (e.g. Charity Commission, HMRC).
- Ensure FSSW fulfils its legal and regulatory requirements around GDPR.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders, including our Auditor and peers across the FareShare network.
- Act as a local ambassador for FSSW.
Finance Operations Management
- Undertake the day-to-day bookkeeping (Xero, Dext, ApprovalMax) including accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank, payroll, banking, and general ledger maintenance.
- Manage the staff payroll and pension process, monthly HMRC reporting and payments, including monitoring of VAT, tax, and gift aid, and prepare required returns.
- Lead on procurement practices, including relationship management of key suppliers such as insurance, utilities, IT providers to ensure best value for money.
- Petty cash controls across all FSSW sites.
- Debtor management, including liaising with internal membership account managers.
- Other finance administration activities as required.
Monitoring and Reporting
- Manage all aspects of the financial cycle, including budgeting, forecasting, fixed asset management, reserves management and financial reporting.
- Prepare monthly management accounts and supporting commentary for presentation to SLT and Trustees.
- Provide insightful financial analysis and reporting to inform and support decision-making and funding applications across the organisation, including quarterly reviews.
- Prepare year end accounts to trial balance and lead the annual audit process.
- Ensure Restricted Funds are allocated correctly and assist with the monitoring of their budgets and cash flow in conjunction with the SLT.
- Assist the Deputy CEO to collate relevant evidence e.g. invoices for grant monitoring and reporting.
- Ensure day-to-day management of IT and data protection.
- Complete administration duties such as filing to Charity Commission and Companies House as directed to comply with statutory reporting requirements.
General
- Respond to communications via telephone, email, in person or via inhouse IT/systems.
- Be willing to receive and engage positively with any visitors to the warehouse and office space.
- Support FSSW events.
- Carry out any other duties that may reasonably be required in support of the main purpose of the role, including liaising with the wider FSSW team.
- Uphold high quality customer care and standards of conduct when dealing with all stakeholders and the public.
Person Specification
As an employer committed to Equal Opportunities, we will assess applications in line with these criteria that we consider either as being essential or desirable for this post. Please explain in your Covering Letter why you meet the points in the Person Specification.
Essential Criteria
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Full/part qualified accountant (ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA or equivalent)
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Minimum of three years’ experience in a financial leadership role; setting and curating a positive workplace culture
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Proven experience in budgeting, financial analysis, and year end reporting
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Demonstrable experience of managing and mentoring a finance team
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Hands on experience of preparing year end accounts to trial balance and managing the year end process both internally, and externally with external independent examiners and auditors
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Proficiency in accounting software, Microsoft, and Google products
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Proven track record in driving a culture of continuous improvement and best practice internal controls
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Strong communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
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Excellent organisation skills to ensure daily operations are carried out safely and efficiently
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Ability to plan, multi-task and manage time effectively
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Excellent attention to detail, comfortable using own initiative, managing priorities and workload
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Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills; with a solution focus
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Able to foster a culture of cooperation and togetherness
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Business partnering with CEO, SLT Treasurer and Trustees and other functional managers
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Proactive, resilient, and able to work under pressure
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To subscribe to the ethos, vision, and mission of the organisation
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Ability to work within a team of varied individuals with a positive attitude
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Able to demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusivity
Desirable Criteria
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3-5 years PQE
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Experience preferably gained in a charity, food systems or logistics and transport or FMCG environment
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Familiarity with charity SORP
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Budgetary management in excess of £1 million
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Experience with Xero
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Committed to reducing food waste and fighting food poverty
Other Requirements
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Willing and available to work outside normal working hours occasionally if required
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Willing to be based in Bristol with some travel to alternative site
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Predominantly office based with some flexibility for working remotely
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Proof of right to work in the UK
Safeguarding statement
FSSW is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults that we work with. As such, this post is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks where appropriate. We ensure that we have policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and a safe working environment.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion
FSSW are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and it's important to us that this is reflected in the diversity of the people who work for the Charity. We actively encourage applications from global majority candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and candidates with disabilities. We value the positive impact that wide representation has on FareShare South West. Please call or email if you’d like to chat about the FareShare South West community in more detail.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Home based or Hybrid
About us
Our purpose is simple, to save lives at sea. Since the 19th century, our crews have been risking their lives to save those who are in danger of drowning.
We're looking for an experienced Trusts and Grants Manager to join our Trusts and Grants team to look after a portfolio of prospects and grantmakers to help raise funds for our lifesaving work. This will be a full-time, permanent post. 4 days may be considered for the right candidate. Securing gifts from Trusts and Grantmakers will help bring our brave lifeboat crews home safely and provide the training and protective gear our crews and lifeguards need to save lives.
Your role
You will work as part of a supportive and collaborative team to help develop and steward a portfolio of Trusts, identifying new funders and projects and building sustainable long-term relationships with supporters in order to meet agreed financial targets and deliver our Trust fundraising strategy. You will:
- Manage the stewardship of a portfolio of Trust supporters, making timely applications, delivering targeted reports and developing relationships in line with your stewardship plans.
- Be responsible for developing your pipeline to research and apply to lapsed and prospective Trusts, Foundations and other grant-making bodies whose objectives and interests fit with our work.
- Work collaboratively with programme and finance colleagues across the RNLI to identify projects and creatively package exciting funding opportunities to open doors to new prospects.
- Build well-crafted, ‘stand-out’ grant applications and impact reports with detailed budgets and timelines that clearly demonstrate to funders the impact of their donations.
- Through emotionally intelligent relationship management, keep funders engaged and excited about our work and inspire them to continue to give.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders and regional teams to identify creative approaches to new and existing funders.
- As one of a small team of Trusts and Grant Managers, support the rest of the team by gathering and sharing project and third sector information.
- Maintain excellent record-keeping to ensure accurate reporting and grant management in line with GDPR and accounting good practice.
The role is offered as a homebased or hybrid role. Some travel will be required.
About you
We are looking for a highly motivated Trusts and Grants Manager with:
- Experience of prospecting for large gifts and managing large donor relationships in a Trust fundraising environment or very similar discipline.
- Experience of working with project managers to identify and create attractive funding packages.
- Excellent attention to detail with experience of writing high quality, creative and compelling fundraising proposals and reports.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and confidence in building internal and external relationships at all levels.
- Good personal resilience and an ability to work on your own initiative to manage projects and multi-task, plan and set priorities.
- A good understanding of the trust fundraising environment.
- A good understanding of financial reporting and experience in managing your own income pipeline.
- Excellent organisational skills with an understanding of the importance of good record-keeping.
So if you are an experienced fundraiser who enjoys relationship building and prospecting for new business, with an enthusiastic, creative and driven approach to supporting our organisation’s aim to reduce drowning, we would love you to join our team. Please apply via the button shown.
Closing date: 27 October 2024.
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).
Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for nearly 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One.
About Reall
Reall’s vision is housing markets that work for people, prosperity and planet. Reall is improving the lives of under-served households in African and Asian cities by building and increasing access to green resilient homes. We create the conditions for families to secure their own homes. Globally, there are 1.2 billion people without somewhere decent to call home. Working across our priority markets, including Kenya, Nigeria, India, Pakistan and beyond, Reall has a commercially and environmentally viable solution that drives macroeconomic development and catalyses pathways to net zero.
We have been pioneers and thought leaders in the global affordable housing space for more than 30 years and to date we have improved the lives of over three million people, created over 200,000 jobs, brought clean water to half a million people and delivered sustainable sanitation to over a million.
The Role
This role will lead on the production of monthly management accounts and other financial reports in relation to projects and programmes, assisting in the preparation of annual budgets as well as the maintenance and development of systems to deliver the most effective finance support to the organisation.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- An ability to work in a complex finance role, with strong technical knowledge of statutory, management and financial accounting.
- Experience in providing variance analysis of actual spend against budget and forecast to assist with financial planning.
- Experience in month end processes, cash flow reconciliation, accruals and reconciliation of the purchase ledger
- Experience of working in foreign currencies.
- Excellent financial analysis skills & attention to detail.
- Ability to evaluate, analyse and improve financial systems and processes.
Why work at Reall?
With a modest UK-based team, Reall is an organisation driven by efficiency, with significant ambition and a track record of success.
Our internal operations are underpinned by a culture of psychological safety, promoting trust, curiosity, and confidence. This means that staff feel secure to speak their minds, tackle challenges creatively, and can never be described as risk averse.
A committed investor in its staff, Reall promotes an environment of conscious diversity in all its forms. You’ll be joining a high-performing, cohesive team with its sights firmly on global impact.
Reall is committed to equality and diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We positively encourage applications from those who are suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief, as Reall believes a diverse and inclusive workforce is vital for our organisation and will lead to greater results and enhance our way of working.
What We Offer
In return for your skills and experience, we offer:
- A competitive salary and total reward package
- 33 days' annual leave plus an additional day off on your birthday. Increasing by 1 day every year for every year of service
- A comprehensive benefits package including an enhanced Pension offering, including death in service coverage along with a generous Maternity and Shared Parental Leave provision
- Access to a Reward portal, which provides high street discounts and a cashback reward scheme in popular online and retail outlets.
- A dynamic and supportive work environment including on-site health and well-being support through access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential support to colleagues. Along with access to funded training and further career development.
- More details are available in job description and person specification, which are available by clicking through as you apply for this role.
Salary – £35,000 - £40,000 per annum dependent on experience
Working hours – Normal office hours are 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. We are open to flexible working patterns subject to the objectives and outcomes of the role being met. We are currently working hybrid with blended office and homeworking with the ability to work up to three days from home most weeks.
The closing date for applications for is 3rd November 2024
Please note that you must have the right to live and work in the UK to be eligible to apply for this role.
If you would like further information please contact us through the recruitment portal with your questions or contact details and a member of our team will contact you.
Your new company
Working for a large, well-renowned organisation as an Assistant Management Accountant. This role sits within a mission-driven environment, where employees often find their work aligned with a sense of purpose. It holds a supportive culture, which emphasises personal development with opportunities for training and professional growth. This is a 2-year FTC which offers flexible hybrid working with 2 days required in the office per week.
Your new role
- Reporting to the Management Accountant.
- Producing regular monthly journals, including intercompany recharges, accruals and prepayments etc.
- Assisting with the production of monthly management accounts/budget holder reports for designated departments.
- Undertaking preliminary variance analysis between budgets, forecasts and actuals and drafting variance commentary.
- Calculating, recording, monitoring and payment of grants.
- Investigating discrepancies and unexpected variances, making corrections if required.
- Undertaking ad-hoc analysis.
- Assisting in review and preparation of phased budgets, financial plans and forecasts and loading budgets and forecasts into SAP.
What you'll need to succeed
- Strong Excel skills and experience with manipulating large volumes of data.
- Experience of working in the finance function of a large organisation, including in a management accounting context.
- Good understanding of double-entry bookkeeping and basic accounting adjustments such as accruals, prepayments and fixed assets.
- Either part-qualified or looking to start studying.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- The ability to prioritise, remain calm under pressure, meet deadlines and have a flexible approach to work.
What you'll get in return
- 25 days of annual leave plus an additional 3 days' leave and bank holidays.
- Hybrid working - 2 days in the office per week.
- Great contributory pension scheme.
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Purpose of the job
The PMO Manager is responsible for designing and managing the framework within which projects are created and managed to support strategic decision making and enable successful delivery of programmes and projects. They will lead on management of UK Youth’s programmes by monitoring and supporting effective processes, governance and good practice. Sitting in Charity Services, they will be a centre of excellence for project management and governance across all functions and the charity as a whole, ensuring consistency and continuous improvement.
Experience
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At least 3 years’ proven experience in successfully managing complex projects and delivering operational efficiencies.
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Demonstrable experience of designing, implementing and monitoring project governance and PMO processes and controls.
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Demonstrable experience in change management.
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Experience resolving complex organisational challenges
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Experience building strong customer relations, promoting ideas and influencing decision makers
Who we are
UK Youth is a leading charity that exists to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. We work with others to ensure that the youth sector is strengthened, supported, and that provision is youth-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes.
UK Youth plays a unique role in addressing; the lack of investment in the youth sector, the lack of cross sector understanding in how youth work makes a difference and the limited opportunities to embed effective solutions. These factors lead to mass inequality of access to youth services for young people. To find more about us and how we make an impact, please visit UK Youth Website.
Why work at UK Youth?
UK Youth is a leading charity that exists to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. We work with others to ensure that theyouth sector is strengthened, supported, and that provision is youth-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes. UK Youth plays a unique role in addressing; the lack of investment in the youth sector, the lack of cross-sector understanding in how youth work makes a difference and the limited opportunities to embed effective solutions. These factors lead to massinequality of access to youth services for young people.
What we can offer you
We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and vibrant organisational culture:
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Flexible/Agile Working
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27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time employees)
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Funded training provided in; Safeguarding, GDPR, Information and Cyber Security & Equality & Diversity
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Other training available in support of your personal and professional development
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Pension scheme (currently UK Youth match employee contributions up to 5%)
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Membership of our life insurance scheme which would pay-out up to 4 times your salary
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Employee Assistance Programme to support employees both professionally and personally
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20% discount off bookings at Avon Tyrrell, our New Forest Outdoor Centre, including camping, lodges and outdoor activities.
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IT equipment provided for the duration of contract
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CycleScheme and TechScheme
How to apply
If you would like to be considered for this fantastic opportunity, please complete an application via our completely anonymised recruitment system provided by Applied which looks to create a fair and unbiased application process for all.
Closing date: Sunday 20th October 2024 at 11:59pm (midnight)
First Round Interview date(s) proposed: W/C 28th October 2024
As this role involves working in a regulated environment with young people, any offer will be conditional to satisfactory background checks, which include criminal record check and employment reference.
**Please note that this opportunity is an 18 Month Fixed Term Contract**
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
At Chance for Childhood, we believe that no child should have to fight for a safe, happy childhood. We exist to ensure that every child in Africa can thrive from their early years through to adulthood. Together with partners, supporters, children and their communities, we protect, educate and create lasting change for every child threatened by violence, neglect and conflict.
We specialise in ensuring access to inclusive education and safe spaces so that children in Africa can play, grow, learn and thrive. We have staff and offices in the UK, Rwanda, Ghana and Uganda and community partners across West and East Africa.
The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Head of Finance in managing the day-to-day finance function of the charity in the UK and providing oversight and support to the financial management of subsidiary country offices, maintaining accurate accounting records, good financial controls and providing timely and useful reporting. The post holder will be a keen problem solver with an appetite for improving and future proofing financial systems to allow for growth and structural changes including mergers and acquisitions.
Benefits include - 25 days annual leave plus 3 day office closure over Christmas (pro-rata), 5% ER pension contribution, flexible working policy
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Would you like to make a difference at The Prince’s Trust?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, resilient and diligent experienced Accountant who loves working in Treasury to join our Birmingham based Financial Operations Team.You will be pivotal to the team, managing the Prince’s Trust’s cash, investment reports and cashflow. And you will be producing the cashflow reports and forecasts for the accounting team and senior stakeholders.
You will be influential in the continuous improvement of the Treasury management processes and you will also be providing valuable support and information to internal and external stakeholders of The Prince’s Trust And you will be helping to transform the lives of our Young People.
This role is perfect for you if you are an experienced Treasury Accountant and you are looking for a new challenge, want to work with a great team and want to support the vision of The Prince’s Trust.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Here at The Prince's Trust, we're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to be an organisation that's representative of the communities we serve, which is why we strive for diversity of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity and perspective. Our goal is to create an environment where everyone, from any background, can be themselves and do the best work of their lives.
We’re a Stonewall Diversity Champion and we are an employer that is Disability Confident. Our staff, volunteers and young people are supported by PT CAN (our Cultural Awareness Network), PT GEN (Gender Equality Network), PT DAWN (Disability & Wellbeing Network) and Pulse (LGBTQIA+ Network).
The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake basic disclosure checks in accordance with the Codes of Practice for all roles within the Trust, and for our roles working directly with young people, at an enhanced level. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.
We are committed to equality and believe in building a diverse organisation that is representative of and responsive to the needs of our young people and stakeholders.
We believe that every young person should have the chance to succeed, no matter their background or the challenges they are facing.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
About Cord
Cord is an international charity working to make peace a reality where people don’t have the freedom to exercise their rights. We work to build the relationship between those in power and local communities.
We believe that people flourish when all parts of society work together. Peaceful relationships make that possible. The simple act of talking begins a journey of growth which transforms mistrust, includes the excluded and turns adversaries into allies.
Cord operates in eight countries and implements programmes in the following areas:
- Empowering Women & Girls
- Accessing Fundamental Freedoms
- Climate & the Environment
- Economic Empowerment
- Supporting Stronger Societies
Role context:
Cord’s turnover is about £2m a year. About 85% of Cord’s funding is restricted, coming from institutional donors like the EU and the US government, and 15% (about £300K) is unrestricted coming from a committed UK supporter base and other private fundraising streams.
In 2024, Cord operates in eight countries and has offices in Burundi, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia & Philippines. Cord has a global team of thirty people with finance staff across six country teams.
The Finance Manager role is a newly created role which is being introduced to strengthen the organisation’s financial management and control systems. The postholder will work across the breadth of the finance function preparing internal management accounts and external annual accounts.
In 2024, Cord changed its finance system to use Business Central. The Finance Manager will become the organisation’s main ‘admin’ user of the finance system. In the near-term, there will be a particular focus on rolling out further functionality of the system.
The Finance Manager will have oversight of the UK finance function through the line management of the UK Finance Officer and will directly deliver on the international side of operations in the areas of donor compliance, programme financial management, partner financial monitoring, and reporting. The role will involve travel to international programme locations.
Key Responsibilities:
- To support the Head of Operations to provide finance team leadership, develop and deliver an annual finance workplan to ensure continual improvement, and to drive finance capacity across the organisation
- To ensure the effective financial management of the organisation create and maintain effective financial control
- To be the Business Central Finance System Lead, developing functionality, troubleshooting and capacitating system users
- To ensure financial compliance: prepare statutory accounts, partner compliance, donor compliance and financial reporting
Cord operates a hybrid structure in the UK with most team members working from home attending the admin office in Coventry for team meetings.
We are a small, committed team who love working together to make a huge impact. If you like the sound of us, then look at the recruitment pack and come and join our team!
Please provide a cover letter that outlines:
- your interest in Cord and the role
- how you fulfil the requirements of the role
Please be sure to include the location where you are based.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Home-Start Bradford District offers a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers who have parenting experience themselves to visit families with at least one child under five in their homes, offering informal, friendly and confidential support designed to increase the confidence and independence of families.
With a 25 year track record of delivering valued support to families and children in the area, Home-Start Bradford District is looking for a Business Manager (Co-leader) to bring a broad range of skills and experience which will develop and support the charity through its next phase of development. It's a varied and challenging role with considerable scope to make an impact on the organisation at an exciting time - working with a fantastic team making a huge difference to families across Bradford.
Working alongside our Operations Manager to co-lead the charity, you will together ensure that Home-Start Bradford District achieves its charitable objectives, working closely with the Board of Trustees to lead the team, implementing and continuing to develop the charity’s Strategic Plan, and ensuring that the necessary resources are in place to maintain the sustainability of the organisation.
The Business Manager will lead on the development and implementation of income generation, the financial management of the charity, the processes and administrative needs of the team, data and reporting, and the charity’s governance and legal obligations. They will need to make their mark quickly, identifying and generating new sources of income, with a particular focus on seeking commercial or unrestricted income.
Key responsibilities
This is a strategic role for which the key responsibilities are:
- Business development and strategic planning
- Income generation
- Financial understanding, budgeting and reporting
- Organising, understanding and communicating data
- Effective networking, PR and marketing
- Good governance
What we are looking for
As the successful candidate, you will have:
- demonstrable experience of leadership in an organisation of comparable scale and complexity
- experience of operating at Board level and capable of working with and alongside our board of trustees
- excellent knowledge of organisational development, with a successful track record of securing significant income
- proven experience of developing and implement wide-reaching strategies that successfully deliver objectives
- collaborative leadership skills with the ability to work alongside a Co-leader, and to bring out the best in a team
- a proven track record of taking financial responsibility, and setting and controlling large-scale budgets
- experience of organising, understanding and communicating data.
An independent charity committed to promoting the welfare of families with young children and providing volunteer-led support in families' own homes.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Reporting to: West Africa Regional Finance Manager
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week
Principal Location: Monrovia, Liberia, with frequent travel to regional office / project sites.
Time Frame: 18 months renewable contract envisaged
Salary: $40-50k per annum, dependant on experience
Background:
Street Child believes every child deserves to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on education, child protection, and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues underpinning today’s education crisis. We partner with local organizations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programs. We use evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale-up of programs to create maximum impact for most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s most challenging places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 1 million children go to school and learn and supported over 50,000 families to set up businesses to afford the cost of educating their children.
Part 1: Role Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to lead improvements in the financial management of Street Child’s partner, Street Child of Liberia (SCoL), a national education and child protection organisation with nationwide presence and annual budget of up to $1m. The role holder will also manage Street Child’s financial reporting and compliance requirements in delivering programmes in Liberia.
The role will report to Street Child’s West Africa Regional Finance Manager, with oversight of Street Child of Liberia’s finance team, and a close working relationship with SCoL SMT, Street Child’s Freetown based Head of Sierra Leone / Liberia Programmes and Monrovia based Programmes Officer.
The role provides financial oversight of programmes in Liberia, facilitating accurate and timely donor reporting, strong budget management and excellent record keeping. Key aspects of this role include: improve financial management and reporting systems; ensure a strong control environment and maintain strong record keeping; empower programmes and leadership teams to have strong financial management and grant management capabilities. The role also serves as a link between Street Child of Liberia and Street Child UK, delivering monthly requisitions, annual budget information and other information as required, with scope to extend support across Street Child’s regional programmes portfolio as required.
Part 2: Key Responsibilities:
1) Ensure robust financial management and reporting systems to facilitate accurate donor reporting, strong budget management and transparency for budgeting (40%)
- Ensure that all staff are using the QuickBooks finance system in place at Street Child of Liberia to provide accurate and timely recording of transactions – providing training, review, support and direct input as needed.
- Ensure that all month end processes are carried out in a timely manner including month end closure processes, bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, and generating reports
- Providing reliable donor reports, Budget vs Actual reports to the Director and Programmes staff to facilitate good planning and anticipation of any changes needed to programmes delivery.
- Ensure that donor expenditure is recorded accurately and finance reports are of high quality with full supporting transaction listings reconciled to the finance system and delivered to deadlines in accordance donor requirements. Report on all costs incurred both at Street Child of Liberia and Street Child HQ.
- Preparation of all donor reports, working with Partner Finance team and programmes staff as needed to ensure that they are delivered on time and with appropriate sign off.
- Support donor due diligence and donor audits by provision of information required.
- Provide input as necessary for all donor budget proposals, ensuring that costs requested are complete and reasonable seek approval for all donor proposal budgets before they are submitted to donors
- Facilitate the year end audit, over-setting the end to end of the annual audit process.
2) Strengthening the control environment and record keeping (30%)
- Review and assess the effectiveness of internal controls and recommend changes and improvements as required , and review any improvements in internal controls recommended by auditors or donors.
- Work with colleagues to devise a delivery plan to ensure that improvements are met, and support the delivery of that plan.
- Strong financial procedures are in place to accompany all payments and improvements are made to the payments system including in particular justifying the use of cash and advances.
- Ensure appropriate bank & cash management procedures are in place and operating effectively, including bank reconciliations for all accounts, cash counts and cash transfers to field sites.
- Ensure robust procurement processes are in place and being followed, working with the procurement team to make any changes needed and ensure that all staff are clear on the required procurement process.
- Developing Financial management tools, including policies and procedures as required.
- Ensure that monthly requisitions (the process for requesting monthly transfers from HQ) are robust, evidence based and submitted on time each month.
- upcoming up with an annual budget, approved in accordance with SC budget timetable, working with the Senior West Africa Finance Manager to develop consistent templates to use in each template.
- Regularly advise and provide support on other issues as the need arises.
3) Participate in finance related meetings and initiatives for all SCoL programmes, providing budget and financial guidance, including provision of training to colleagues (10%)
- To ensure the smooth-running of the programme with respect to its financial obligations.
- Compliance with the organisational procedures; quality of budget monitoring; quality of the budgets drawn up; quality of financial reports for donors; anticipation of financial problems.
- Provide BVAs every month by the 10th of M+1 of all contracts.
- Plan and lead the BVA analysis meetings every month before the 15th.
- Ensure coherency between the programme budget and the donors' budgets.
- Procedures so as to ensure a realistic budget, accurate expenditure codification and robust budgetary steering.
- Draw up and monitor cost allocation tables for office and staff costs.
- Conduct the monthly, bi-annual and annual accounts closing operations · Raise programme teams' awareness of contractual budget and financial obligations.
- Analyse donor guidelines and inform the teams about these procedures and their application.
- Train programme teams in internal budget and financial management.
- Check the budgetary monitoring of the funding schedule.
- Substantiate the financial accounts with regard to local legislation.
- Monitor and organise internal and external audits, assume the role of the auditor's primary contact in liaison with head office.
4) Working with the finance team (10%)
- Train the finance team.
- Set up communication and coordination mechanisms for the team.
- Manage contractual monitoring (leave, end of trial periods, etc.) of finance team members; if necessary, co-validate disciplinary procedures with Operations Manager.
- Oversee finance team's career development: define training needs and provide guidance on professional development.
5) A liaison and link with Street Child UK Finance team to enable management of operations in Liberia (10%)
- Develop the annual budget for Liberia, which includes costs budget, programmes costs, cash flow forecasting.
- Enter Street Child of Liberia costs on the HQ finance system (Aqilla) and ensure that all monthly transfers to Street Child of Liberia are fully accounted for and reconciled.
Part 3: Person Specification
Attributes / Education / Qualifications
Essential:
- Educated to degree level or higher
- Recognised Accountancy Qualifications
Desirable:
- Degree in International Business Administration, finance or related field; or attendance at specific relevant training courses
Attributes / Experience & Knowledge
Essential:
- 5 years post qualification experience
- Experience of implementing internal controls and finance procedures
- Experience of managing multi donor grants and good knowledge of donor compliance rules and requirements – in particular working with DFID, UN, EU, USAID
Desirable:
- Knowledge of development issues and concepts
Attributes / Skills / Abilities
Essential:
- Extensive knowledge of finance & logistics policy within non-governmental organizations
- Knowledge of computer applications and software finance packages –in particular Quickbooks and Aqilla or other “mid-tier” finance system
Desirable:
- System design and implementation of finance software packages
Attributes / Other
Essential:
- Strong interpersonal, management and team work skills
- Ability to influence change in teams not directly managed
- A self-starter, capable of working independently and flexibly to a high level
- Fluent English –written and spoken
Desirable:
- Good communication and staff training / capacity building skills
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Ivy Rock Partners is excited to be working with a leading organisation to recruit a talented Financial Accountant. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic finance team where you will play a key role in delivering accurate and timely financial information for internal and external stakeholders. If you are passionate about finance and looking to make an impact, we would love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain and oversee the fixed asset register, including accounting for property, plant, and equipment.
- Manage accounting for deferred capital grants, property disposals, and the financial aspects of new housing properties.
- Prepare annual statutory accounts, ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
- Assist the Senior Financial Accountant in delivering accurate monthly management accounts and supporting the year-end audit process.
- Ensure financial reporting is clear and targeted to diverse audiences, including internal teams, external regulators, and auditors.
- Drive process improvements across financial controls, policies, and procedures, and ensure compliance with industry best practices.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Part-qualified accountant (ACMA/ACCA/ACA) with relevant experience in financial accounting and reporting.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and present complex financial data.
- Experience in statutory reporting and knowledge of UK and International Financial Reporting Standards.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills, capable of managing multiple deadlines.
- Experience with Fixed Asset Register
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and accounting software; experience with housing-related systems is a plus.
What’s on Offer:
- A hybrid working model that provides flexibility between home and the office.
- Opportunities for career progression and professional development.
- The chance to work closely with senior finance leaders and contribute to strategic financial initiatives.
- A collaborative and supportive work environment where your input will directly impact the organization’s financial performance.
- Funding your finance qualification
Please get in touch with Megan Hunter for a confidential conversation about the role.
St Peter’s Charity is a small Charity founded in 1861. Once an order of Anglican religious sisters running hospitals, today the Charity runs St Columba’s House Christian retreat and conference centre and a small grant making trust. We are based in Woking, Surrey.
A part time Finance Manager is needed to cover all the finance and accounting functions within the Charity from payroll to producing monthly management accounts and presenting reports at Trustee meetings. This role is varied and rewarding as it plays an important part in the management of our Charity.
We are seeking a suitably qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) who is warm, approachable and efficient.
Applicants need to be sympathetic to the work of St Columba’s House, which, while rooted in our Anglican foundation, welcomes clients and staff from all faiths and none. We offer a friendly, attractive place to work as part of a small team.
The post holder would be expected to work on site.
Retreat Centre and Grant Making Trust
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Role
At HTB and its related entities, our vision is to play our part in the evangelisation of the nations, the revitalisation of the church and the transformation of society. Each member of our team plays a vital role in making our vision a reality. As a Christian organisation our faith is an integral part of our working culture.
The key purpose of this role is to support the organisation by providing financial processes, information and strategies that contribute to the overall aims of the HTB Group and to ensure good stewardship of financial resources.
To ensure that the Finance functions, financial reporting and financial strategies support and contribute to the overall aims and success of the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
• Will contribute fully to the day to day operation of their team or area, with flexibility and without the need for close supervision
• Using a good degree of proficiency and well - established professional knowledge, will analyse and help to find solutions to challenges and issues that arise
• Support the Alpha Financial Controller in running the reporting and reconciliation systems of Alpha
• Complete monthly reconciliations (such as accruals and prepayments), as directed by the Alpha Financial Controller or with the Processing Team, if the need arises.
• Work with Accounting Processing Team on their monthly reconciliations, providing support on purchase and sales ledger
• Review the twice-monthly purchase ledger payments and monthly payroll for Alpha providing first-time compliance and accuracy checks.
• Review the monthly credit card payments for Alpha to make sure compliance with the expense policy and accuracy checks.
• Take responsibility with the Alpha Financial Controller for ensuring strong financial controls, good governance, and statutory compliance
• Assist the Alpha Finance Director and Financial Controller with projects on an ad-hoc basis.
• Detailed monthly bank reconciliation for Alpha with queries sent to responsible person for posting.
• Assist the Alpha Risk and Governance Team with Due diligence on grants outward –ensuring these are recorded completely and accurately; and that due diligence requirements are followed up, assessed, and filed
• Take responsibility for detailed analysis and reconciliation of all regional expenditure and income analysis
• Monthly Intercompany reconciliations and follow up
• Supporting the development of financial awareness across the charity and its operations at all levels of management and administration
• Review/approval of new suppliers on Dimensions (including checking and entering supplier bank details in Dimensions and Stonex)
• Assistance with Monthly Management accounts (forecasting, liaison with departments/regions etc)
• Involvement in the annual budget process (e.g. arranging meetings & checking templates to budget steer)
• Involvement in the yearend accounts preparation and Audit (Fixed Asset register, other schedules, providing samples and explanations to auditors)
• Responsible for preparing and submitting quarterly HTBG VAT returns
• First line of support for Alpha budget holders when they have questions about codes/payments etc.
• Work closely with the Alpha Fund development team to update them on financial information for donor proposals.
Other:
• Take occasional lead in Finance Team prayer sessions.
• Helping with cash collections and counts on Gift Days, LC and Focus
The Right Candidate
• Qualified/Part Qualified or qualifying accountant (ACCA/CIMA)
• Well organised and confident with numbers.
• Word, Excel and Outlook experience.
• Experience in a Finance environment is strongly desirable
• Commitment to the vision and aims of the organisation.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to manage a wide variety of tasks efficiently.
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
The Working Environment
We have a purposeful working environment where we strive for excellence in everything we do. Our workplace culture is shaped by our values which are AUGHT. They are Audacity, Unity, Generosity, Humility and Tenacity. We respect and value our colleagues, encourage and affirm often, challenge when necessary, supporting always. It is an inspiring and energising place to work where innovation and creativity is encouraged alongside passion and discipline. The staff community is warm and engaging, with lifelong friendships being built.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Assistant Financial Accountant
Come and join a growing social enterprise whose mission is to create innovative solutions through enterprise that unlock social and economic opportunities for people trapped in poverty.
The finance team here at The Big Issue Group are looking for a Assistant Financial Accountant to lead on month end processing and quarterly reporting for our group of four trading companies. You will also:
- Be a key player in setting the right tone for the accounting process within the Big Issue Group's four trading companies so that they are both robust and simple.
- Providing detailed explanations to the business on its expenditure.
- Writing commentary on quarterly P&L, balance sheet movements and cash flow statements.
- Continual review of financial policies, processes, and controls with a view to improvement
- Work across all areas of the finance teams remit across the Group.
You will hold an ACCA qualification (or finalist), have experience in a similar financial accounting role (ideally in another social enterprise) and have a good working knowledge of taxation, relevant legislation and accounting systems (preferably Sage).
This is a hands on role working closely with the Head of Accounting and joining a team that has a commitment to staff development and will actively support dedicated team members in their career development.
For a full job description including the summary of responsibilities, skills, qualities and experience required for the role, please download from the link below.
Salary and Benefits:
- Salary £35,000 - £45,000 per annum (dependent on experience)
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays incrementally increasing with service.
- Flexible working policy
- Pension scheme
- Private Health care cover
- Enhanced Family benefits
- On-going learning and development
- Employee Assistance programme to support your health and wellbeing
- Perkpal Benefits scheme
Workplace details
Whilst this role will be based at the Big Issue Group Head Office in Finsbury Park, the finance team are mostly based remotely - currently visiting the office once per month and working the rest of the time from home. The successful candidate would be welcome to work in the office more frequently however if they desired. They should also be prepared to visit the office more frequently if the role requires.
Closing date – 20th October 2024 (23:59pm). Please note that we may invite suitable candidates for interview before the closing date. So please apply asap.
Big Issue Group is striving towards Equal Opportunities. We particularly welcome applications from those who are underrepresented in our sector, such as women in senior roles, and people with disabilities and from Black and Minority Ethnic communities.
Since 1991, The Big Issue has fought poverty by creating opportunities and supporting people to take control of their lives. Over time our organisation has grown and now The Big Issue Group consists of The Big Issue Company Ltd and Big Issue Invest Ltd (our social investment arm) and Big Issue Changing Lives Community Interest Company.
For enquiries, please contact us via email.
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Job description
Bristol Charities is entering a season of rapid development and growth and we are seeking a permanent Finance Manager to expand the capacity of the finance team, as we embed a new finance system to assist delivery of a new five-year strategic plan.
Our strategic plan is to expand our impact across Bristol through the implementation of a Hub delivery model, which will allow us to tailor our services and support within priority location and communities across the city.
If you care about Bristol and are passionate for positive change, then please come and join us on our journey.
FINANCE MANAGER
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part-time (up to 28 hours per week, to be agreed). Additional hours may sometimes be required and can be taken as Time Off In Lieu (TOIL).
The charity’s Finance Manager will slot into the Corporate Services Directorate, working with the Director of Finance (Deputy CEO) to build on the great work of the Interim Finance Project Manager.
The postholder will have the opportunity to drive improvements and efficiencies across our core finance and IT operations. The postholder will help the charity collate, analyse and present its increasingly complex KPIs and data.
We offer the following benefits:
- Competitive salary with index-linked pay awards
- 5% employer pension contribution (matched)
- 4x Life Assurance
- 26 days annual leave, rising with length of service (plus Bank Holidays)
- Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- BenefitHub discounts and perks platform
- Staff Wellbeing Group
- On-site café
- Free on-site parking
Deadline for applications: Sunday 13 October 2024
Interview dates: Week commencing 21 October 2024 (TBC)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.