Finance Manager

ENGINEERINGUK; Leatherhead; Hybrid; GBP 19,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading charity organization is seeking a proactive Finance Manager to oversee financial operations. This part-time role requires strong financial accounting skills and offers flexible working arrangements. The successful candidate will ensure regulatory compliance and maintain financial integrity for both charities.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Oversee financial operations and compliance for two charities.
• Prepare statutory accounts and financial information for annual audit.
• Maintain accurate financial records and manage cash flow.

Responsibilities

• Manage preparation of statutory accounts and financial information.
• Prepare quarterly management accounts and cash flow reports.
• Maintain compliance with regulatory bodies.

Skills

Financial Accounting

Bookkeeping

Management Accounts

Cash Flow Management

Communication

Education

Part-qualified ACA/ACCA or fully qualified AAT

Tools

SAGE

Microsoft Office

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The Vacancy

Hiring : Wates Family Enterprise Trust

Hours: 2 days a week - (15 hours)

Location: flexible - one day a week in our Leatherhead office -. mix of home and office working

Salary range: £ £19,800 (pro rata salary) plus benefits

Length: Permanent

Start date - July 2025

About Us
Wates Family Charities is comprised of two independent, grant-making charities: Wates Family Enterprise Trust and The Wates Foundation. Together, we are committed to supporting positive social impact through strategic grant-making and community investment. With a combined annual spend of over £2.5 million, we play a key role in supporting individuals and organisations across a range of vital initiatives.

The Role
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Finance Manager to oversee the financial operations and compliance for both charities. As the sole finance professional within a close-knit team of seven, this role is crucial in maintaining the financial integrity and regulatory compliance of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage the preparation of statutory accounts and financial information for the annual audit

• Maintain accurate financial records, including bank reconciliations, journals, and trial balances

• Prepare quarterly management accounts, cash flow reports, and forecasts

• Authorise and process payments including grants and internal recharges

• Manage external audit processes, liaising with auditors and internal teams

• Maintain compliance with Companies House, Charity Commission, and other regulatory bodies

• Draft and submit annual reports and accounts, with support from the Director

• Develop and implement policies (e.g. safeguarding, GDPR, whistleblowing)

• Provide financial data for trustee meetings and assist in drafting decision papers

• Maintain accurate records of training and hospitality for trustees and staff

• Support grant assessments and related administrative processes as required

What We're Looking For
Essential:

• Part-qualified ACA/ACCA or fully qualified AAT

• Solid technical knowledge of financial accounting and bookkeeping

• Strong skills in preparing management accounts and managing cash flow

• Experience of working independently in a finance function

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial matters to non-specialists

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and accounting software (SAGE)

Desirable:

• Experience of charity accounting and knowledge of SORP

• Familiarity with regulatory requirements for UK charities

• Understanding of deposit management and placing funds with platforms such as Flagstone

Working Pattern
This is a part-time role (15 hours per week) with hybrid working. A fortnightly presence in Leatherhead is required, ideally on Wednesdays. Flexibility will be necessary around the time of the annual external audit and at Board meetings, approx. two per quarter which are held between central London and Leatherhead

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, 'reimagining places for people to thrive' and our three promises:

Thriving places - working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet - protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people - creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.

Company

We employ almost 4,000 people, working with a range of clients and partners from across the public and private sectors.

At Wates, we are driven by our purpose of working together to inspire better ways of creating the places, communities, and businesses of tomorrow. We need the right people from whatever background to help us make this happen and we are always looking for talented people from all walks of life to reflect the diverse communities where we work.

There’s a huge variety of job opportunities across our businesses, working on challenging and exciting projects for customers across both the public and the private sector. No two days are ever the same.

By joining Wates, you’ll be working for an organisation which invests in your continued professional development, regardless of which stage you might be at in your career.To discover what it is like to work for Wates, click below.

Working for Wates

There’s a huge variety of job opportunities across our businesses, working on challenging and exciting projects for customers across both the public and the private sector. No two days are ever the same.

By joining Wates, you’ll be working for an organisation which invests in your continued professional development, regardless of which stage you might be at in your career.

Our Guiding Framework

Our Guiding Framework shapes everything we do. It incorporates our driving purpose, it outlines the behaviours we work by, and the goals we are all working together to achieve. These are our values and vision.

As a family-owned business, we know it’s our people who make us successful. And just as in a family, everyone should feel welcome, included, and connected at Wates. We strive to be an organisation where everyone loves to work and to provide a safe space where everyone can be themselves.

Wates Together

Our Diversity and Inclusion plan is our long-term blueprint to create a business where everyone is welcomed, included and connected. We call this #WatesTogether.

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to building an organisation which is more representative of the communities we serve, offering equality of opportunities to diverse talent and an inclusive work environment where this talent thrives. We have set ourselves bold targets that will take time to achieve, but we are moving in the right direction and we are committed to achieving sustainable change.Find out more about our inclusion and diversity strategy

Social Value

Our approach to social value is rooted in our belief that how we do business, is as important as what we do. Our programmes and activities are focused on creating work and training opportunities, particularly for people furthest away from the workforce, such as care leavers, ex-offenders and ex Services personnel; building sustainable communities through employment, skills and awareness, and advocacy of trade with the social enterprise sector.

Environmental Sustainability

The Wates Group is committed to the long-term sustainability of the built environment and we’re working to eliminate carbon from our operations by 2025.

We’re committed to having a workforce that more accurately reflects society and providing an environment that positively encourages flexible working through working arrangements and benefits. Following the introduction of sector-leadingFamily Leave Policies in 2020, we have become one of the first construction companies to support flexible working across every part of our business, including for site-based employees. By 2025, we intend all our roles to be flexible, and we already advertise all new vacancies as flexible.Our six flexible working principles are designed to allow our colleagues and teams to develop working patterns that take into account individual preferences, allowing everyone to perform at their best.

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