Finance Manager

Bath City Farm; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing charity finances, including governance and compliance.
• Ability to lead budgeting and financial reporting processes for a non-profit organisation.
• Strong understanding of VAT, Gift Aid, and financial controls in a charitable setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual budget preparation with Farm Director, budget holders and Trustees.
• Monitor quarterly financial performance using key metrics with the SLT.
• Provide monthly financial reports to budget holders for spending decisions.
• Coordinate year-end accounts with external accountants and ensure timely completion.
• Identify efficiencies in payroll, procurement, invoicing and expenditure.
• Ensure compliance with legal financial reporting requirements and governance practices.
• Monitor financial risks and advise on risk management and reserves.
• Promote adherence to financial policies across the Farm and provide line management to the Finance Assistant.
• Contribute to wider Farm decision-making as a member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Skills

Financial management

Strategic leadership

Budgeting

Governance

Job description

An exciting opportunity to join Bath City Farm's Senior Leadership Team has arisen that could suit someone experienced and looking to apply their financial management skills and knowledge in a high impact charitable organisation. Alternatively, you may be someone at the early stages of a financial management career, looking to apply learnt skills and financial leadership capacities in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Based on our beautiful 37 acre site (and with the opportunity to work from home one day a week), the role will support the Farm's social and environmental impact agenda, whilst improving our financial resilience as a sustainable social enterprise, through good financial management and decision making. There is plenty of room to practice innovation, leadership and business development skills, working closely with the Farm Director and Senior Leadership Team.

Overall purpose of job:

To provide strategic leadership of the Farm's finances, enabling the charity to deliver its ambitious high-impact strategy, whilst building a resilient, financially sustainable organisation.

Leadership and Management responsibilities

• In collaboration with the Farm Director, budget holders and Trustees, prepare the Farm's annual budget and monitor quarterly performance.
• Monitor the Farm's financial performance using key metrics created and reviewed annually with the Farm Director.
• Provide reporting of the Farm's finances for quarterly Finance Sub-Committee and Board Meetings.
• Provide monthly reports to budget holders to support them in tracking spending and decision-making.
• Preparation of the Farm's Year End Accounts and working with the external accountants to finalise these.
• Help to identify and implement efficiencies in relation to payroll, procurement invoicing and expenditure.
• Responsible for compliance with legal requirements related to financial reporting, completion of VAT returns, Gift Aid returns, submission of annual accounts and good financial governance
• Monitor, identify and elevate financial risks, for example deviation from reserves policy, funding gaps, and advise on risk management approaches.
• Promote and ensure that agreed financial policies and procedures are adhered to across the Farm e.g. cash handling and use of business expense cards.
• Provide line management for the Finance Assistant.
• As a member of the Senior Leadership Team contribute to the wider decision making of the Farm