Senior Finance Manager

3 days a week

The role requires working on site at least two days per week.

The post of Senior Finance Manager will ensure accurate recording and reporting of financial activity, in particular management accounts , project accounts and cashflow. The role will also involve working with budget holders to enhance the decision-making processes of our client and supporting the charity administration team in complying with all statutory and external requirements and regulations on behalf of the Company Secretary. The post includes basic bookkeeping and transactional input as well as higher level accounting.

Our client are a relatively small charity with complex transactions from a variety of sources including contract research, training and fundraising. This is primarily a hands-on operational role with a contribution to strategic planning as required.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Accounting and budgeting

Maintain Xero accounting data accurately including all transactional processing (sales invoices, purchase invoices, cash payments and receipts and journals)
Ensure accounting transactions are correctly coded for nominal, VAT, department, project and in the case of restricted income and expenditure, charitable fund
Provide payroll information to payroll bureau and NHS Trust as required to ensure correct calculation of gross pay for all staff
Provide pension information to pension provider to ensure pension contributions are correctly declared and collected
Prepare and submit quarterly VAT return
Assist in preparing the annual budget

Management reporting

Prepare monthly management accounts at company, department and charitable fund level including maintaining schedules of fixed assets and depreciation, prepayments, accruals and other balance sheet items as required and present to relevant directors and senior managers
Prepare financial reports for CRO projects to show project performance and profitability and present to relevant directors and senior managers
Update Income & Expenditure, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow projections on a monthly basis
Prepare information for the Trustee, Finance Committee and other meetings

Statutory reporting

Prepare audit file for the annual audit
Prepare NPIMR Annual Return and Charity Commission returns

Skills, knowledge and experience required including any necessary qualifications

Qualified Accountant with strong finance management experience (5 years +)
Ability toundertakebasic bookkeepingduties(customer invoices, supplier bills, bank transactions, fixed assets)
Experience in payroll, pensions and VAT (partial exemption)
Ability to prepare monthly management accounts and accounts for audit
Advancedskillsand experiencein Xero or similar accounting package
Must have good attentiontodetail andbe willing tocontribute at higher level
Advanced Excel and Powerpoint presentation skills
Experience of supporting departmental budgeting
Experience of working in a charity or in the third sector
An organised and collaborative style, with good communication stats
Experience of legal and accounting requirements for charities is desirable