Responsibilities

Your precise responsibilities and how they are shared in the Operations team will be determined by your experience, qualifications, interests and how they develop. But they might reasonably include:

• Undertaking finance processes, controls, providing and improving guidance to staff.
• Income and expenditure processing from multiple sources and systems.
• Managing and processing payroll, benefits, expenses, and company cards.
• Managing relationships with the bank, auditors, and contracted support.
• Supporting the annual financial, governance, and audit cycle.
• Supporting management planning, departmental budgets, and project accounting inquiries.
• Supporting the continuous improvement of systems, processes, and practices.
• Supporting the administration of Trustee meetings and sub-editing papers.
• Supporting statutory filings with Companies House and other regulatory authorities
• Ensuring all of our internal procedures adhere to evolving legal and regulatory standards.
• Ensuring the integrity of our records, archives, and other papers, and modernising their storage.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Previous experience of financial management in the third sector and / or charity accounting.
• Professional qualifications, or a clear plan for their development (with our support).
• Able to demonstrate how you improved financial management in previous roles.
• Outstanding attention to detail and passion for accuracy.
• Excellent organisational, time management and project management skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, comfortable with sub-editing tasks.
• Calm, confident and patient. Comfortable working with very bright people.
• Client-focused in your approach, sensitive to the needs of others
• Good MS Office skills, familiarity with QuickBooks, SharePoint, and Salesforce an advantage
• Understanding of payment systems and bank account integration, an advantage.
• A willingness to work unusual hours, sometimes at short notice, an advantage.