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Senior Finance Manager
Job Posted: a day ago
Salary: £ 84,000/Annum
Job Type:
Location: HA1, Northwick Park, Greater London
Expire in: a month
Job Description
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 to undertake basic bookkeeping duties (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
* Advanced skills and experience in Xero or similar accounting package
* Must have good attention to detail and be willing to contribute 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 desirableBefore You Apply
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