Part-Time Charity Finance Manager | Hybrid & Impact

Trial Balance; Exeter, Highweek; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

Trial Balance Consulting are partnering with a well-established charity in Devon to recruit a Part Time Finance Manager. The role is 18 hours per week across 2–3 days, with flexibility on days and sites (Exeter, Newton Abbot or Exmouth) and option for one day per week hybrid working.

You will support the CEO and senior management team, maintain digital finance systems, and produce high-quality management information with commentary.

Qualifications

• Experience in not-for-profit or charity accounting preferred.
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA or related vocational experience.
• Strong supervisory and IT skills; able to communicate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Support and advise the CEO, senior management team, and board of trustees in all aspects of the organisation's financial position.
• Maintain the charity's digital finance systems.
• Produce and present high quality management information with accompanying commentary.
• Oversee the preparation of statutory accounts and work closely with external auditors.
• Lead and influence colleagues and stakeholders to improve knowledge and understanding of the charity's financial position.
• Plan and prepare annual budget, business plans and cash flow forecasts.
• Act as a key point of financial contact for the charity's external stakeholders, funders and suppliers.
• Manage the charity's fixed asset register.
• Develop and implement streamlining initiatives.
• Approve VAT reports and returns.
• Oversee the collation of payroll data (for outsourcing to an external provider).

Skills

Not-for-profit accounting

Charity accounting

Management experience

IT proficiency

Communication skills

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Tools

Accounting software

Payroll software

VAT reporting tools

Job description

Trial Balance Consulting are partnering with a well-established charity in Devon to recruit a Part Time Finance Manager. The role is 18 hours per week across 2–3 days, with flexibility on days and sites (Exeter, Newton Abbot or Exmouth) and option for one day per week hybrid working.

You will support the CEO and senior management team, maintain digital finance systems, and produce high-quality management information with commentary.