Senior Finance Officer

HARRIS HILL EXECUTIVE SEARCH; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cultural institution in London seeks a Senior Finance Officer to support the financial administration of the New Museum Project. The role includes processing invoices, ensuring compliance, and liaising with auditors. Ideal candidates will have experience in finance within the charity sector, strong communication skills, and proficiency in Excel. This is a hybrid position requiring at least 2 days in the office.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in finance within the charity/not-for-profit sector.
• Strong qualification by experience or part qualified accountant.
• Understanding of contract management with compliance experience.

Responsibilities

• Support financial administration of the New Museum Project.
• Ensure compliance of records and timely invoice processing.
• Deliver accounts payable function and provide cover for Finance Manager.

Skills

Experience in finance within the charity/not-for-profit sector

Part qualified accountant or strong qualification by experience

Understanding of contract management

High level of IT literacy with advanced Excel skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Job description

Harris Hill is delighted to partner exclusively with London Museum to recruit a Senior Finance Officer on a full‑time, FTC (until 31st December 2026) basis. London Museum is delivering the most exciting cultural project for London for a generation – an entirely new museum for London will open in 2026 in Smithfield. As a result, this is a newly formed role that will evolve over time with an initial focus on the New Museum Project.

As Senior Finance Officer you will perform a key role in supporting the financial administration of the New Museum Project, dealing primarily with processing construction works invoices and consultants’ fees. It will involve a compliance role to ensure that the professional fees, construction costs, and contracts of the project are correctly recorded.

Please note, this organisation has a hybrid working policy with a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

As Senior Finance Officer, you will:

• Work with the New Museum Project Team to ensure compliance of records and timely processing of invoices and purchase orders in accordance with strict deadlines and schemes of delegation.
• Build a strong relationship with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure swift resolution of discrepancies and issues around financial approvals.
• Deliver the accounts payable function (initially for the New Museum Project) including invoice processing, BACS payments, reconciliations and general operations management.
• Ensure invoices are within current purchase order values and align with agreed payment and resource schedules.
• Be a key point of contact for the external auditor, inputting to the audit planning process and the end‑to‑end production of statutory accounts, preparing working papers, tax relief claims and other related matters for year end.
• Provide cover for and deputising for the Finance Manager when required.

The successful applicant will:

• Have demonstrable experience in finance within the charity / not‑for‑profit sector, in a similar role.
• Be a part qualified accountant or have strong qualification by experience.
• Have previous experience of working effectively in a multi‑disciplinary team.
• Have an understanding of contract management and experience in assisting with compliance and assurance tasks.
• Have a high level of IT literacy with extensive experience of working with excel at an intermediate/advanced level and with computerised finance systems.
• Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

If this sounds like you and you're keen to hear more, please do get in touch ASAP! To apply please email [e-mail] with the following:

• A full curriculum vitae (CV)
• A supporting letter detailing how you meet the essential criteria for the role as detailed in the Person Specification, which is included in the Job Description document.

Please note, only successful applicants will be contacted with further information.

Deadline for applications is Sunday 23 November 2025, interviews and selection will be arranged for week commencing 24 November 2025.

As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever‑improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.