Remote
Fixed Term Contract
£50,000 per annum
Job Title: Financial Controller
Organisation: National Charity
Location: Fully-remote
Hours: Full-time
Duration: 12 month FTC
Salary: £50,000 per annum
A medium sized national charity is seeking a Financial Controller for a fully-remote / home-based role to start as soon as possible.
The role is a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.
Reporting to the Head of Finance and managing a team of 3 Finance Officers, the core areas of the role are:
-Team management: motivating, empowering and developing three team members
-Transaction processing and financial controls: managing the month end close and ensuring that transactions are accurately recorded and compliant with relevant legislation
-Year-end accounts preparation and external audit: managing the year end timetable and tasks and acting as the key liaison for our external auditors (year-end is March)
-Cash flow forecasting and management: monitoring cash balances and preparing reports for inclusion in management information
-VAT, Payroll, Gift Aid and Direct Debit processing and submissions
-Finance systems: complete routine user acceptance testing of finance systems and play a key role in any finance system development projects (Microsoft Great Plains is finance system)
-Finance business partnering: meeting with specific budget holders to discuss budget variances, and reforecast on a monthly basis
Requirements:
-Ideally fully-qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA accountant (part-qualified considered if significant experience)
-Must be able to start the role quickly – immediate or 1 week notice period preferable, up to 1 month considered
-Strong experience leading on the preparation of annual statutory accounts in line with Charity SORP
-Prior experience leading a charity audit
-Experience managing a team
-Strong experience with transaction processing and financial controls
-Strong understanding of charity tax and VAT
Closing date: ASAP/ongoing