Finance Manager

Sheridan Maine - Accountancy & Finance Recruitment; West of England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency specializing in finance seeks an experienced Finance Manager to maintain financial accuracy for a charitable team. Key duties include overseeing financial transactions and audits, supporting junior staff, and ensuring compliance. Candidates should have a professional qualification or equivalent experience, particularly in charity accounting. This temporary position is based in Bristol, England.

Qualifications

• Experience managing and developing junior team members.
• Solid experience preparing financial accounts and performing month-end checks.
• Familiarity with charity accounting principles and knowledge of charity VAT is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy of all financial transactions within the finance system.
• Oversee and support a small team of three junior finance staff.
• Lead the preparation for year-end audit and liaise with external auditors.

Skills

Audit management

Financial accounting

Team leadership

Attention to detail

Education

Professional qualification or experience equivalent

Tools

Finance systems

Job description

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Finance Specialist Recruiter || Bristol & South West

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Edward Everett Hale.

Sheridan Maine are seeking an experienced and proactive Finance Manager to join a charitable team on a fixed-term basis through to November 2025. This role is crucial in maintaining the accuracy of financial data and supporting a busy finance function during a critical period, including year-end processes and a finance system implementation.

Your responsibilities as the Finance Manager will include:

• Ensure accuracy of all financial transactions within the finance system, maintaining compliance with internal authorisation and control procedures.
• Oversee and support a small team of three junior finance staff, including performance management, one-to-one meetings, coaching, and review of work.
• Lead the preparation for year-end audit, including compiling and reviewing schedules and liaising with external auditors.
• Support the delivery of reconciliations and adjustments to ensure accurate month-end and year-end reporting.
• Review and authorise financial transactions with a strong attention to detail.
• Manage the audit timetable in collaboration with the Finance Director and coordinate all necessary documentation and communication with auditors.
• Support VAT return preparation and review.
• Balance hands-on involvement in day-to-day tasks with effective delegation to team members.
• Navigate multiple concurrent deadlines and priorities, including the ongoing finance system implementation.

Required Experience as the Finance Manager:

• Professionally qualified or qualified by experience.
• Proven experience in running audits and preparing audit documentation.
• Solid experience preparing financial accounts and performing month-end checks and reconciliations.
• Experience managing and developing junior team members.
• Familiarity with charity accounting principles and knowledge of charity VAT is also beneficial.

If you’re passionate about this position or are keen to hear more, please click on “apply” as soon as possible.

You are required to be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction.

Due to the high volume of applications, it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within five days, please assume that on this occasion your application has not been successful.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Temporary

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing, Finance, and Management

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations, Higher Education, and Consumer Services

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