Financial Controls Manager

Bayman Atkinson Smythe; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Life cover

Health cash plan

Eye care

Cycle to work scheme

Childcare vouchers

Job summary

Bayman Atkinson Smythe is assisting with a Financial Controls Manager role in Liverpool for a large not-for-profit organisation. The role focuses on developing and maintaining robust financial controls across the group and supporting key stakeholders with month-end processes.

The successful candidate will be a fully qualified accountant with strong technical accounting and risk awareness, able to operate in a high-profile finance team during a period of transitional change.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant with strong technical accounting skills.
• Experience implementing and maintaining financial controls.
• Ability to work across a large not-for-profit organisation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure processes are defined, documented and compliant with accounting standards.
• Review finance processes and controls to identify risks.
• Undertake regular testing across finance for compliance and robustness.
• Collaborate with financial and non-financial colleagues to apply controls to systems.
• Audit and analyse controls to identify an effective internal controls framework.
• Coordinate month-end processes with Finance Processing Manager and Financial Accounting Manager.
• Monitor unresolved issues and ensure timely resolution.
• Raise awareness of the importance of strong financial controls.

Skills

Technical accounting

Financial controls

Education

Fully qualified accountant

Job description

Financial Controls Manager Permanent Liverpool - £58,000 to £70,000 + Benefits

Our client is a large not for profit organisation that has grown considerably over the last 12 months and is now going through a period of great transitional change. We are now seeking a qualified technical accountant to help delivers the organisation's ambitious delivery plans. As the Financial Controls Manager, you will join a talented and committed finance team, and your role will be to support key finance stakeholders in the management and development of the financial control environment across the group.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all the processes are fully defined, properly documented and compliant with the relevant accounting standards to ensure good financial control
• Review routine finance processes and controls to ensure they are appropriate and highlight any risks
• Undertake regular testing across finance to ensure compliance and financial robustness
• Work with both financial and non-financial colleagues to ensure financial controls are applied to all key systems and processes
• Undertake a deep analysis and audit review of controls and processes across a range of financial outputs to formally identify an effective internal controls framework
• Work closely with the Finance Processing Manager and Financial Accounting Manager to ensure month end processes and procedures, such as balance sheet reconciliation and month end journals, are processed in a timely and accurate manner
• Monitor unresolved issues
• Raise awareness of the importance of strong financial controls

This will be a high profile role within the finance team and will be a key ambassador for finance.

The Person

• It is essential you are a fully qualified accountant and would suit a first or second time mover
• Effective communication and negotiation skills are essential
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure
• Previous experience of working in a large and complex organisation

Benefits

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Life cover
• Health cash plan
• Eye care
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare vouchers