Finance Manager

The OutHouse; Colchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a passionate team at an established charity dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ+ community as a Finance Manager. This role involves overseeing financial health, preparing reports, and ensuring compliance with legal requirements. You will collaborate closely with the CEO and other team members to drive financial growth and support impactful projects. If you have a strong background in financial management and a commitment to social impact, this is your chance to make a real difference in the community. Embrace this opportunity to grow professionally while contributing to meaningful change.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in financial planning and management.
• Experience managing charity finances to a high professional standard.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective financial management service and prepare financial reports.
• Ensure compliance with financial statutory and regulatory matters.

Skills

Financial Planning

Financial Management

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

Xero

Job description

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Social Impact Specialist working on Funded Projects, Industry Collaborations and Educational Programmes

Post: Finance Manager

Locations: The OutHouse, 19 East Hill, Colchester, CO1 2QX

Responsible to: CEO & Treasurer

Working with: All Staff

Start date: Immediate (subject to enhanced DBS and two satisfactory references)

Hours: 28-hours per week

Duration: Permanent Contract

Working pattern: To be agreed

Workplace: Hybrid (Office based with work from home for up to 25% of your working week).

To apply: Send a copy of your CV and a cover letter detailing how you meet the Person Specification. Your cover letter should be no more than 2-sides of A4.

About The OutHouse

The OutHouse is a registered charity based in Colchester, Essex, who proudly support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ+) community to feel seen, included and understood. We offer 1-to-1 support, counselling, group support, social events, advocacy, and awareness training with local organisations. Our purpose is to provide and advocate for safe and inclusive spaces for everyone from the LGBTQ+ community.

The OutHouse Values

The post holder will uphold the key values of The OutHouse, which are:

• To be reflective
• To be honest, act with integrity, openness and transparency
• To foster partnerships and collaboration
• Celebrating successes of individuals and the community
• To be inclusive and respectful

The Finance Manager

We are looking for a Finance Manager to take charge of the financial health of our charity by administering a high quality and effective financial management service to The OutHouse. The OutHouse is growing and we need a finance practitioner who is able to support the organisation in its financial growth. This is a busy role within a small team that is looking to make a huge difference within our community. If you have a proven track record in financial planning and management, can manage multiple priorities and work within time sensitive situations, we encourage you to apply.

You will work closely with the CEO, Operations Change Manager, the Team and the Treasurer to ensure that all data are recorded accordingly and in a timely manner.

Key Activities & Responsibilities

As Finance Manager, your key activities and responsibilities will be to:

• Provide a high quality and effective financial management service to The OutHouse.
• Prepare, develop and analyse finance and accounting information, including income and expenditure processing, ensuring information is timely precise, clear, informative and understood.
• Keep good quality accounting records for our charity by preparing annual accounts and maintaining up to date records on our accountancy and book-keeping systems (making any recommendations for improvement as necessary).
• Work with the CEO and Operations Change Manager to ensure efficient financial management and planning systems, ensure financial reports effectively inform business development and fundraising strategies and that the organisation demonstrates value for money across all activities and services.
• Prepare information for our Funders on funded projects expenditure and work with the SLT to present this in a meaningful way.
• Attend Trustee meetings as required to provide information and analysis ensuring partnership with CEO and board Treasurer to allow for easier financial decisions.
• Ensure financial information supplied to management and the board is full and accurate so as to support sound decision making.
• Ensure compliance and proactively highlight potential risk with relevant financial statutory and regulatory matters.
• Identify and manage risks and contribute to the risk register on financial matters and wider decision making when appropriate.
• Keep up to date with financial developments across the sector and changes in requirements for charity reporting and legislation.
• Make sure financial reporting complies with relevant legal requirements.
• Maintain and monitor internal policy documents and procedures and make recommendations on best practice and good governance.
• Liaise with and maintain a good working relationship with our CEO, colleagues and trustees, Treasurer as well as stakeholders and key operational contacts such as bankers, auditors and funders.
• Lead and implement monthly payroll using Xero.
• Line management of the charity's Administrator.
• Ad hoc HR administration including joiners, leavers, personal use equipment co-ordination.

Experience

• Managing charity finances to a high professional standard.
• Operational knowledge of internal financial controls and legal financial requirements for charities.
• Knowledge of good governance practices and of bodies which issue updates, guidance and information on relevant legislative change.
• Can effectively run financial administrative systems.

Person Specification

• Proven ability to work as part of a small and effective team.
• Open and transparent with colleagues across the organisation.
• Credible and trustworthy.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills and an ability to be proactive and solution focused.
• Ambition with a desire to grow with our charity through a change and transformation period.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to present financial data precisely as well as being able to use narrative as a means to accurately contextualise data.

We encourage applications from members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary and gender questioning community. We look forward to receiving your applications, The OutHouse.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Part-time

Job function

Finance and Sales

Industries

Non-profit Organizations