Part-Time Finance Manager | Not-for-Profit, Hybrid

Hyra; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Not For Profit People is recruiting a Finance Manager for a London-based, part-time (30 hours/week) role with hybrid working. The role focuses on building robust financial controls, delivering high-quality management accounts, and partnering with budget holders to enable informed commercial decisions.

You will lead a wide range of finance activities, including payroll coordination, policy maintenance, tax compliance and supporting the organisation's fundraising and reporting commitments.

Qualifications

• Newly qualified accountant (e.g. ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with at least five years relevant experience or a finance professionals with sufficient relevant experience, close to becoming fully qualified may also be considered.
• Outstanding attention to detail whilst being able to think strategically at the same time.
• Substantial and relevant experience within the not-for-profit sector.
• Excellent understanding restricted funding, its implications and ensuring that spend is in line with requirements of funders and Charities SORP.
• Understanding the practical application of FRS102 requirements.
• Able to build effective relationships across the organisation.
• Able to effectively communicate complex financial matters to non-finance colleagues.
• Committed to driving and seeing through improvements within the finance team.

Responsibilities

• Achieving and maintaining information of utmost integrity and completeness, enabling relevant and timely reporting addressing statutory and stakeholder requirements.
• Manager of financial control framework, including but not limited to: Leading a successful month-end process.
• Producing high-quality monthly management accounts.
• Covering the monthly payroll process and related financial controls in conjunction with outsourced payroll provider and the HR department.
• Scrutinising all aspects of sound financial controls in the context of the operating model and regulatory requirements driving through use of technology to automate checks and balances.
• Optimising use of the accounting software (Xledger), through pro-active maintenance, development and integration with relevant applications.
• Managing the annual audit.
• Maintaining, regularly reviewing and updating organisational policies relating to finance.
• Ensuring the charity fulfils its obligations in relation to tax and other regulatory requirements.
• Play a key role in managing financial strategy including supporting budget holders across the organisation.
• Key role in budget preparation, implementation, variance analysis as well as forecasting cycles.
• Enabling budget holders, through business partnering and training, to manage their own budgets effectively and make commercial decisions based on sound understanding of strategic financial drivers of the organisation and effective use of finance systems such as XLedger.
• Understanding of financial strategy and associated KPIs to play a role in financial risk management.
• Supporting the Fundraising and Communications team with financial information for funding applications and producing financial reports to funders.

Job description

Not For Profit People is recruiting a Finance Manager for a London-based, part-time (30 hours/week) role with hybrid working. The role focuses on building robust financial controls, delivering high-quality management accounts, and partnering with budget holders to enable informed commercial decisions.

You will lead a wide range of finance activities, including payroll coordination, policy maintenance, tax compliance and supporting the organisation's fundraising and reporting commitments.