Senior Finance Manager

Helenbamber; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to ensure robust financial management within a dynamic charity environment. This role involves leading the production of management accounts, overseeing financial processes, and mentoring finance team members. You will play a pivotal role in the strategic development of financial systems, ensuring compliance with regulations while enhancing operational efficiency. If you are passionate about making a difference and possess strong financial acumen, this opportunity allows you to contribute significantly to the organization’s mission while advancing your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

27 days holiday (increasing to 30 after 5 years)

4% matched pension contribution

Sick Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in producing high quality management accounts and variance analysis.
• Proven FP&A experience supporting a charity's financial planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the production of monthly management accounts including variance analysis.
• Support annual planning cycle and provide accurate project accounting.
• Manage and mentor finance team members in their development.

Skills

Financial Management

Variance Analysis

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Budgeting

Project Accounting

Audit Process Management

Cash Flow Forecasting

Leadership

Education

Degree in Finance or Accounting

Professional Accounting Qualification

Job description

9 – 5.30pm, 37.5 hours per week (full time) flexible working requests considered

Responsible to: Director of Finance

Ideal time commitment: permanent role

Location: Helen Bamber Foundation office, Old Street, London

Deadline: 06/05/2025

Benefits: 27 days holiday (increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service) plus 4% matched pension contribution, Sick Scheme

This new role will play a key part in ensuring strong financial management of the organisation’s financial resources. This position is key for both Helen Bamber Foundation and Asylum Aid and the postholder will work closely with all members of the finance team in delivering both the organisational and financial strategies.

The candidate will have confidence and experience in producing high quality and accurate management accounts and variance analysis, as well as proven FP&A experience in supporting a charity’s annual financial planning cycle. As the organisation moves into a new strategic cycle, the post holder will play a key role in supporting the development of financial systems and processes ensuring that the finance department evolves as required.

As Senior Finance Manager, you will be reporting to the Director of Finance and Governance and will be directly line managing the Finance Manager. Supporting their development as they progress with their accounting qualifications will be a key requirement in this role, and you will have the opportunity to work with and mentor them through this.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead on the production of monthly management accounts for both entities (Helen Bamber Foundation & Asylum Aid) including variance analysis.
• Oversight of month end close process carried out by the Finance Manager ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Supporting the annual planning cycle including regular re-forecasts as well as the annual budget planning process.
• Provide reports and accurate project accounting for joint partnerships with other organisations.
• Support the development of devolved budgets and budget holder responsibilities across the organisation. Provide business partnering to future budget holders across the organisation.
• Lead on production of the annual financial statements in adherence with FRS102 and charity SORP. This includes review of the year-end adjustments and liaising with the communications team on production of the annual report.
• Play a leading role in the annual audit process, dealing with our external auditors and ensuring a smooth and efficient audit process.
• Support cash flow forecasting ensuring that latest risks and opportunities are considered.
• Support the fundraising team with bid applications ensuring that budgets are accurate and aligned to strategy.
• Responsibility for the updating and implementation of key financial control procedures and policies across the organisation.
• Continually look to improve financial processes both within the finance team and across the organisation. This role will play a key role in delivering the financial strategy including systems development.
• Provide payroll cover as required – payroll is outsourced to an external payroll bureau.
• Provide good quality line management to the Finance Manager as well as indirectly to 2 part time Finance Assistants. Be seen as a leader within the organisation.
• Provide development opportunities for the finance team and in particular, to the Finance Manager who is undertaking their accounting qualifications.
• Adherence to key financial deadlines throughout the financial year (VAT returns, month end, financial year-end etc).

APPLICATION PROCESS

The first stage is to complete our online application form on our website by 9am on Tuesday 06th May, 2025.

The website form will ask you to:

• Upload a short covering letter. Please tell us why the position appeals to you, and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role.
• Upload your current CV.
• Complete an online Equal Opportunities monitoring form – completion of this form will help us ensure that our recruitment procedures operate in such a way as to provide genuine equality of opportunity. The questions are entirely optional and this information will not be available to members of the selection panel.

The recruitment for this role is on a rolling basis, but we anticipate that we will invite candidates to an initial 15-minute online screening meeting not further than the commencing week of the 12th of May, 2025, followed by shortlisted candidates being invited to an online interview on the week of the 19th of May, 2025. We may also ask you to complete a short task ahead of the final interview.

At Helen Bamber Foundation Group, we want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview so we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind.

EXPERTS BY EXPERIENCE SUPPORT

We are also proud to be a member of the Experts by Experience Employment Network (www.ebeemployment.org.uk), which aims to increase representation of people with lived experience in the charitable sector. Please feel free to use information and resources at https://www.ebeemployment.org.uk/ebe which may help in preparing your job application.

Our commitment to principles of equity, diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our approach to our clients, our volunteers, and our staff, and we are an equal opportunities and Living Wage employer. We are committed to attracting and recruiting diverse candidates because we are keen to make sure that all our staff, trustees, volunteers, and ambassadors reflect the communities we serve and the wider community we work in.

We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from a range of backgrounds, especially people of colour, people with disabilities, people from low socio-economic backgrounds, refugees, stateless people, and others with lived experience of forced migration or trauma.

To apply, please add your details and upload your CV and cover letter, and press submit to answer some short questions.

The personal information that you provide to us in this application will be stored on our database. We will process the personal information that we collect (apart from equal opportunities data) for the purposes of the charity’s legitimate interests, as follows: (1) to assess your application to work for the charity; (2) to organise interviews or other recruitment activities; (3) for the purpose of communicating with you about your application; (4) to provide a record of our recruitment process for audit purposes and to respond to queries. We will only retain your personal information in our own database for as long as necessary in order to fulfil the purposes for which we need it, as described above. You have the right to access, correct, or delete a copy of the data we hold about you at any time. If you would like to do any of these things, or if you have any concerns, please contact [e-mail].