Finance Manager - Management Accounting

Sja's West; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to saving lives through essential services. As a Management Accounting Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing the integrity of financial processes and reports, leading a dedicated team, and collaborating with various stakeholders. This position not only offers a competitive salary and benefits but also the chance to contribute to a meaningful mission that impacts communities. With a supportive culture that values growth and work-life balance, this is an exciting opportunity for a qualified accountant looking to make a difference in a charitable setting.

Benefits

Competitive salary and pension scheme

33 days holiday (increasing to 38)

Cycle to work scheme

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Health and Wellbeing portal

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts on various services and products

Qualifications

• Must hold a professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
• Expert in producing monthly management accounts and financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate monthly management accounts and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Lead month-end review meetings and ensure balance sheet integrity.

Skills

Management Accounting

Financial Reporting

Team Leadership

Financial Risk Management

Accounting Standards Compliance

Education

Professional Accounting Qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

Find your next role with St John Ambulance.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,200 employees and over 29,500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response and Night Time Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

The Management Accounting Manager is a qualified accountant, who is the custodian of the monthly management accounts process, their integrity and accuracy. They are the first point of contact for the finance team including the FBPs, the FC and the FD in terms of understanding our monthly I&E account and performance. They are also responsible, pertaining to their areas of responsibility, for balance sheet integrity and a key point of contact for our external auditors. They need to keep themselves up to date with accounting principles and standards and the charities SORP. This role is a key member of the senior management team within the Financial Control Function responsible to, and deputising for, as required, the Financial Controller. The Management Accounting Manager will lead and manage a small team.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Hold a professional accounting qualification (fully qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• An expert in the production of monthly management accounts and of delivering comprehensive explanation and understanding of financial performance to a range of stakeholders both within and outside of the Finance team.
• Experience in the preparation of income and expenditure and cash flow forecasts and of identifying, managing and controlling financial risk
• Experience of successfully managing and leading a team of staff within a Finance function, including leading and delivering change whilst maintaining excellence
• Experience of the review and oversight of balance sheet accounts, including reconciliations

About the Role

• Responsible for the delivery of accurate, complete and timely monthly management accounts including I&E statement, within accepted accounting policies, and manage all stakeholders in the delivery of this.
• Responsible for setting and managing the month end and annual close timetable.
• Lead the month end review meetings, providing an explanation and understanding of performance to stakeholders.
• Responsible for an accurate and robust balance sheet, pertaining to areas of responsibility, fully reconciled and understood on a monthly basis, with appropriate remedial actions set and followed up.
• Collaborate with and support the Finance Business Partners across all Networks, providing accurate reporting, insight and explanation to support them in their roles. Maintaining compliance with accounting standards at all time.
• Gather insight and understanding from the FBPs to ensure a full understanding of the organisation and its operations in delivering accurate numbers on a monthly basis. Highlight and challenge areas of financial control risk and work with the FBPs to resolve, holding them to account to deliver their part.
• Provide insightful analysis to and respond to ad hoc requests for information/explanation from the Finance Director Senior Leadership Team as required.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

Please note: This role may be subject to a DBS check.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.