Role Overview

The Finance Manager will be responsible for managing the finance function, developing, implementing, and maintaining an appropriate internal control framework, and applying the terms and conditions of contracts and grants.

You will facilitate the maintenance of accurate and up to date financial and accounting records to ensure the effective running of the charity.

You will manage the Finance Assistant and work closely with the Fundraising team and external accountants.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the securing of income opportunities by providing financial information for bids, grants, and applications.

• Create and implement templates to enable the team to provide accurate financial information for submitting bids, quotes and applications and high-level security within the systems to uphold client confidentiality.

• Work with project leads and the senior team to ensure the effective management of funds, including the tracking and reporting expenditures in line with statutory requirements of WIT's filing system. 

• Develop and deliver financial performance information to assist the Senior Team and Trustees in the running of the charity providing valuable financial insights to help make better decisions about formulating and executing the charity's strategy.

• Assist the CEO and Senior Leads in the business planning and budgeting/forecasting processes

• Manage the year-end audit by liaising and engaging with the external auditor and accountant to process payroll and pensions monthly.

• Work with the Senior Team and Finance Sub Committee to provide adequate procedures, measures, and systems of internal control appropriate for the nature and size of the charity and meeting statutory obligations.

• Manage the financial and accounting operations using Xero financial management software and Microsoft Excel

• Produce accurate monthly Management Accounts for the CEO and Senior Management Team, including commentary on significant areas and variances from budgets and Update monthly the cash flow forecast 

• Produce accurate quarterly Management Accounts for review to the Finance Sub Committee, including commentary on significant areas and variances from budgets

• Work alongside the Senior Management Team to prepare detailed annual budgets for approval by the CEO and Finance Sub Committee

• Monitor Gift Aid and submit claims when required.

• Undertaking administrative tasks as and when required, be hands-on and self-sufficient

• Work with the external accountant to complete monthly return payments to Inland Revenue, and year-end returns in a timely, proactive and accurate manner 

• Report safeguarding concerns to the WIT Designated Safeguarding Manager and follow company procedure.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of financial accounting 

• Qualified (CIMA, ACCA or ACA ) or QBE for the right candidate. Part qualified acceptable, with the right experience

• At least three years of experience in the review and production of accounts

• Excellent IT skills with extensive experience in working with online accounting systems, Excel and MS Office

• High proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs etc.)

• Experience in using Xero online accounting system

• Experience in dealing with auditors and a clear understanding of their requirements 

• Experience Overseeing SORPs and Charity Accounting 

• Thrives in a socially motivated environment and can work at speed in a constantly changing environment

• Experience in people management and a team player

Timeline

• To apply, send your CV and covering letter by 5 pm on 17th June 2022

• Applicants shortlisted for an interview be interviewed within one week

• The official role start will be in end-June 2022

We are currently looking for two senior Talent Acquisition specialists to join our growing Talent Attraction & Resourcing (TA&R) Team at the Harris Federation. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that is innovating and shaping recruitment for the future within Harris.

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you will play a key role in identifying and hiring the best talent for the Federation and helping to create an engaging and rewarding experience for candidates and internal stakeholders. This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced recruiter to oversee the full end-to-end recruitment life cycle and make a real difference in an organisation that has a positive impact on the lives of young people across London.

The post offers autonomy, freedom to innovate and the chance to lead on developing a best-in-class candidate experience. We have positions available for specialist recruiters in Education, Non-Teaching and our Head Office Central Services teams. We offer flexible working in the form of "Core Hours", potential for hybrid working and a competitive benefits package.

As part of a team, your primary responsibility will be to lead a specialism and advise and support teams and stakeholders from across our 51 primary and secondary academies and our Head Office functions. You will help embed a culture of best practice planning, sourcing, screening, interviewing and onboarding, as well as continually reviewing and improving processes to ensure we secure the best talent. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading education charity, and the chance to work within a highly collaborative environment where you have the chance to make a real difference. 

About Us

The Harris Federation is a pioneering not for profit education charity, and one of the leading Multi Academy Trusts in the country. We now have 51 primary and secondary academies across London and Essex, employing over 5,000 staff and educating some 40,000 young people. 

We have, over the past thirty years, implemented ideas and initiatives that have transformed the opportunities of pupils from working class and disadvantaged backgrounds. Harris academies are widely recognised as a force for social mobility and we are immensely proud of the role that our alumni are now beginning to play in the world, and of what we believe our current generation of pupils will go on to achieve.

We want every student in a Harris Academy to receive an outstanding education. Finding and recruiting the best and brightest in a competitive schools employment market is an integral part of maintaining and improving our exceptional educational standards. We’re looking for someone who shares our commitment to excellence, collaboration and support and who can build new and innovative talent acquisition techniques across a range of recruitment streams. 

Main Areas of Responsibility

As a Talent Acquisition Partner you will be responsible for a specialist area of recruitment and aligned to one of either:

Teaching and Education Leadership (Primary & Secondary Education) including:

• Principal and Senior Leadership Teams
• Central Team Consultants
• Middle Leadership
• Qualified/Unqualified Teachers
• Entry Level / Newly Qualified Practitioners
• Teaching Assistants
• SEN / Pastoral 

Head Office Central Services & Academy Non-Teaching (Non-Education) including:

• IT & Data Services
• Finance 
• People Services (HR and TA)
• Governance & Compliance
• Estates Management
• Procurement
• Administration

Reporting to the Head of Talent Attraction & Resourcing your responsibilities will include:

• To lead and manage a specialist area of recruitment (Education or Non-Education).
• Developing new and existing sourcing strategies for talent pipelines, candidate pools and nurturing talent in line with workforce planning, from entry level to senior leadership.
• Identify, attract and coordinate candidates against open positions within the Federation as well as planning for future academies and talent needs of the Federation.
• Develop communities and talent pools through advertising, headhunting / direct approaches, networks, university events, social media and employee referrals.
• Support with Employer Value Proposition, Recruitment Marketing, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Staff Referral and Engagement projects initiatives.
• Manage a high touch recruitment process with both external and internal candidates to ensure the best possible candidate experience.
• Help develop and implement the use of testing and assessments
• Utilise data and reporting to partner with senior stakeholders, HR and hiring managers to advise on recruitment best practice and provide updates and visibility on the status of recruitment.

Please download the Job Pack below for full details on the job responsibilities and person specification.

Qualifications & Experience

An ideal candidate will be experienced in working closely with hiring managers to form close partnerships in order to deliver against recruitment objectives. 

The successful candidate will have:

• A passion for recruitment and ensuring outstanding candidate experience
• The ability to problem solve and create innovative solutions to difficult hiring challenges
• Previous experience in building and developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Significant recruitment experience gained in an in-house function, RPO or consultancy
• Experience of implementing and developing recruitment processes
• A track record of recruiting across all level roles, from entry level through to senior leadership
• The skills to be resourceful, meticulous, and organised with the ability to multitask
• Experience of using ATS/HRIS systems
• Experience across several sourcing channels and techniques
• Knowledge of market trends & insights
• Qualifications to degree level or equivalent

Professional Development & Benefits

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre.

We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.

Equal Opportunities

The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.

Are you a part-qualified accountant looking for your next opportunity? Do you have experience interacting with a wide range of stakeholders? A well-known education charity is looking for an interim Assistant Finance Business Partner to join their dynamic team.

Who would you be working for?

Founded over 20 years ago, this impressive charity works over a variety of areas on different projects to ensure that all children have access to the best education possible. They develop teachers, improve schools & learning environments, and create inspiring leaders within the education sector.

What is the role?

Assisting and reporting directly to the Senior Finance Business Partner, you will work mostly remote, spending some time in their London office. Your main responsibilities will be:

• Providing financial analysis to a range of stakeholders; ensuring efficient allocation of income & expenditure
• Reporting monthly on financial performance; monitoring budgets
• Maintaining strong relationships with internal stakeholders; building their financial skills
• Assisting the Senior Finance Business Partner as required

Offering an annual salary of up to £37k, this contract will last until 31^st October 2022

What do you need to succeed in this role?

• CCAB part or fully qualified
• Experience interacting with internal & external stakeholders; business partnering experience is not essential but would be beneficial
• Familiarity with charity accounting; working knowledge of Charities SORP would be advantageous
• Ability to communicate complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders

What's next?

If this sounds like the perfect role for you or you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me via or on 0207 324 0529

New Vacancy- Finance Business Partner– Erdington

£42,000 - £45,000 per annum, plus £1,680 Car allowance

37.5 hour per week

Trident Group has over 50 years of delivering homes, services and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,400 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. It employs more than 750 staff, works with over 150 volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more. The Group has an annual turnover of more than £32m and owns assets close to £170m.

The Group includes Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance; Trident Reach, a registered care and support charity providing services (homeless, mental health, young people, older people, BME groups and domestic violence) to people in the Midlands.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Finance with key relationships with the Operational Directors. The Finance Business Partner will work with our business to report, understand and influence financial and operational performance. The post will straddle the Senior Management Teams of Finance and the operational business.

• To manage the financial reporting and management accounting function for one of our business units. Ensure reporting to Group Finance Director and to the business is timely, accurate and insightful.
• Provide value-adding comment on performance through monthly reporting and feeding into Group Board reporting.
• Working with the business, prepare challenging annual budget within Group timetable.
• Monthly reforecasting providing an accurate view of our annual projection
• Able to provide information that feeds in to our 30-year financial plan.
• Able to provide information on key risks and opportunities for growth and improvement.
• Input into new business/grant submissions. Challenge to deliver profitable schemes in line with our strategies.
• Provide challenge and ideas for improvement. Have the personality to commitment to drive positive change.
• Make best use of our reporting systems – improving the monthly reporting pack. Proving reports to scheme/project or expense code where appropriate.
• Management and development of an Assistant Management Accountant
• Support to deliver regulatory and statutory reporting
• Key role in delivering successful year end accounts/audit

About you

• Qualified accountant
• Demonstrable evidence of business partnering in a similar organisation
• Evidence of driving performance in a similar team.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills both with the team and the wider business.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Good knowledge of Excel and other MS packages and a sound knowledge of Finance and reporting Systems.
• Able to motivate teams and contribute as team player.
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable effective liaison with internal and external clients.
• Able to work flexibly and under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Applying

All applications must be accompanied with a current CV which will be used to assess your suitability for the role. Please ensure all the skills, experience and qualifications requested are clearly demonstrated in your CV as explained in the body of the advert.

All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live with in the UK

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from Disclosure and barring service (DBS). Please be aware you will need to complete an enhanced adults DBS check before taking up the role.

We have a new and exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join our team. This is not your typical ‘accountant’ position and has been created to add much-needed capacity to the Finance Team on project accounting. The postholder will provide financial support and guidance to large grant-funded programmes and will assist in financial management of some consultancy projects. They will be partnering with the programme and project staff, and will therefore be working with staff with a differing degrees of financial experience.

Duties Include

• Prepare budgets and financial proposals for projects.
• Support Project Managers with budget reforecasts, cost recovery and income recognition calculations.
• Review and interpret financial information and prepare monthly project reports for Programme and Project Managers.
• Track project budgets and monitor project expenditure.
• Review project finance procedures and methodology and suggest improvements and/or develop methodology where appropriate.
• Ensure client/donor compliance requirements are met in financial records and reporting.
• Provide oversight of contract and funding agreement requirements and ensure relevant personnel are informed of obligations.

About You

We are looking for someone who is adaptable, agile and able to demonstrate an analytical and methodical approach to problem-solving. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to develop budgets and forecasting expenditure and be skilled in analysing financial data using Excel at an advanced level.

You will need to have at least 2 years’ experience of working in a similar project-focused position and be educated to degree level in social sciences, economics, international development (or similar) or have equivalent relevant experience and be at least part-qualified in one of the following: ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.

If you would like to contribute to increasing the impact of a dynamic organisation committed to ending poverty, we would love to hear from you. Please download and read the full recruitment pack and apply with your CV and cover letter to our online application portal.

Early applications are highly encouraged; we will be reviewing submissions as they arrive, and interviews will be held periodically. As we are recruiting on a rolling basis, we reserve the right to end recruitment without notice.

Head of Finance Business Partnering: up to £64,800 (9-month FTC) SE London | Home

For a large, London University, we are recruiting a Head of Finance Business Partnering for 9-months to cover a secondment. Reporting to the Assistant Director of Finance, the Head of Finance Business Partnering will manage and lead the Business Partnering Team through a finance transformation programme and will develop business partnering processes to enhance service delivery. This role will also provide strategic support to senior managers across the university on the planning and delivery of their financial objectives.

Main Duties:

• Leading, managing and motivating a large team of Business Partners, emphasising service delivery
• Proactive advice to senior managers on key risks and financial outcomes
• Train budget holders on financial responsibility
• Provide management information, analysis, forecasts and advise to senior management
• Implement budgetary control measures
• Ensure the preparation of the University's monthly management accounts and written reports
• Support the FP&A Team to develop models and costing allocation analysis
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement, suggesting and implementing improvements to systems and processes.

Person Specification:

• CCAB qualified with significant experience of leading Finance Business Partnering Teams
• Strong business partnering experience, including working with non-finance stakeholders
• Experience of management through change and transformation
• Strong data analysis and forecasting and modelling experience
• Ideally Higher Education experience
• Experience with new systems and process implementation would be great
• This role will be working 3 -days a week from the SE London campus and 2 -days from home.

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As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join our team based in Gilwell Park, Chingford London. We will offer you a competitive salary of £47,000 per annum Band G, Level 3 (inclusive of Outer London Weighting).

We’re Scouts and everyone’s welcome here - all genders, races and backgrounds. Right across the UK, we help over 400,000 young people aged 4-25 gain skills for life and find their place in the world. We help them speak up, play their part and shine bright.

The Finance Business PartnerRole:

The Finance Team is made up with a diverse number of individuals, from various backgrounds, who all have a strong sense of team work whilst creating a good environment to work in. You would be joining a team where we encourage individuals to develop and learn new skills by working with stakeholders both internal and external to help the Scouts achieve its strategic goals.

As a Finance Business Partner, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining financial and accounting procedures that support the performance of our finance team. The role will provide support and guidance to budget holders.

Key responsibilities as our Finance Business Partner:

- Provide support in the preparation of the annual budget and quarterly forecasts.
- Assist in the preparation of the Management Accounts and associated Reports.
- Providing support, advice and guidance to budget holding managers enabling them to understand their financial responsibilities, improve reporting processes and make decisions based on their financial management information.
- Support Head of Finance and Deputy Head of Finance in the financial decision and budgeting process
- Support budget holders with budgeting and forecasting and review of the financial information on the reporting system.
- Work closely with budget holders arranging regular meetings and ensuring the data that they are provided with is insightful and meaningful.
- Present written analysis to the senior finance team which will contribute to all annual budgeted, planning and reforecasting.
- Work with Systems Accountant and Group Management Accountant to develop suite of reports for management accounts.
- Assisting in the preparation of the Association’s annual statutory accounts in accordance with regulatory requirements and assisting in meeting external audit requirements.

What we are looking for in our Finance Business Partner:

- In depth Knowledge and understanding of computerised accounting and reporting systems
- Good numerical and communication skills
- Preparation of budgets, forecasts and management accounts
- Experience supporting non finance staff to understand financial management information

What we can offer you as our Finance Business Partner:

- 25 days holiday and going up to 28 days after 2 years’ service and 32 days after 5 years’ service
- Additional holidays between Christmas & New Year
- Life Assurance
- Simply Health Scheme
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Free car parking

We are proud to be a family-friendly employer and offer…

- Up to four personal days paid leave a year
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Childcare Vouchers
- Flexible working hours
- Store Discount at our Scout Store + other online benefits
- Study and volunteer leave

Closing date: Wed, 25 May  2022, 23:59

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join our fantastic team! Click ‘Apply’ now!

The Scouts is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity and actively seeking applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.

Strictly no agencies.

My client, a growing and dynamic Charity, is looking to recruit a finance business partner – a maternity cover in the finance team.

They are looking for an experienced business accountant to work with the charity and wider finance team in order to implement a programme of significant change to their finance systems and processes.

You will be expected to analyse current processes, systems and data and identify possible improvements and develop creative solutions.

The aim is to deliver better value for the business through provision of better information, faster delivery of reports, a greatly improved user experience and enhanced stewardship.

There will also be a number of ad hoc projects that will need supporting from a financial point of view

Prior financial experience in a management account or analyst role would be advantageous and the ability to be a self-starter, work with the wider business and engage with stakeholders at all levels is extremely important.

You will also need to adapt quickly and be able to fit within a small and close knit team.

Finance Business Partner, West London – Arts Education, up to £52,000

An arts higher education institution based in West London is looking for a new Finance Business Partner to join their newly restructured team. Reporting directly to the Finance Director, the Finance Business Partner has full responsibility for the analysis, budgeting and forecasting and payroll, along with some other ad hoc and project work. Experience in payroll would be ideal, even if just overseeing the work of an external provider. This is a great organisation with a strong team, and has the potential to become a managerial position further down the line.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the UK and European payroll to ensure staff are paid accurately and on time and that relevant accounting entries made.
• Manage the process of creation of statutory audited accounts and other financial returns, to ensure that Met group is compliant with statutory and OFS requirements.
• Fulfil tax and compliance requirements - such as review of UK and German VAT returns to ensure information supplied to HMRC is accurate.
• Support the Finance Director in the set up and implementation of systems to drive business efficiency and deliver value.
• Strive to implement and improve processes in line with best practise, in order to create a strong financial control environment.
• Using modelling skills to assist with budget preparation and monitor performance, so that senior stakeholders gain accurate insight.

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Finalist level or newly qualified ACCA/ACA/CIMA accountant
• Experience overseeing payroll is required
• Commercially minded, eager to be part of the organisation’s strategic plans
• Willing to be flexible within their role
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills

Head of Financial Business Partnering

£40,000 - £44,000 plus excellent benefits

Hybrid working from a WWT site

About Us

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is an international wildfowl and wetland conservation charity. We are the UK's leading wetland conservation charity and are immensely proud of the work we do to restore, create and protect wetlands.

Our vision is for a world where wetlands wildlife thrives and enriches lives.

Our mission is to conserve, restore and create wetlands, save wetland wildlife, and inspire everyone to value the amazing things healthy wetlands achieve for people and nature.

Our principles are we believe wetlands are key in helping us meet our most pressing environmental challenges. Managed sustainably, they support livelihoods, local economies and our health and wellbeing.

We also welcome one million visitors every year to our unique wetland reserves as we believe that showing people first-hand how amazing wetlands are is the best way to ignite a passion to conserve them.

The Role

We are currently looking to recruit a Head of Financial Business Partnering; a new and important role in the Finance Team.

The main focus of this role is to support colleagues across the organisation, inputting into new projects and contracts, and helping to make those agreements the best they can be from both charitable and financial perspectives. You will provide forward-looking information and analysis to the wider business and support the development of both commercial and charitable activities across the organisation. You will ensure that all information regarding forecasting and modelling of future activities is realistic and accurate.

You will manage a small Financial Business Partnering team and work closely with the Head of Financial Accounting and Head of Finance to ensure that all financial information is presented in a useful and timely way which can be used by programme and project managers around the organisation to enable good decision making.

About You

To succeed in this role you will:

• Be a qualified accountant with a strong customer service focus, building effective and collaborative relationships with budget holders across the WWT group and providing support and information to enable good decision-making. This will involve regular meetings with managers across the organisation.

• Partner with managers across WWT, helping with queries, improving their understanding of their management accounts, ensuring that financial rules and procedures are followed and to provide training.

• Lead on the production of accurate, concise and easy to understand management accounts each month, including a monthly Finance Report for the senior management team and trustees, in line with agreed timescales and procedures.

• Be a strong leader able to communicate well with your peers and team members and have resilience to adapt quickly to changing priorities and demands from internal and external stakeholders.

In return for your hard work and dedication you will enjoy a wide variety of benefits including:

• Salary package £40,000 - £44,000 depending on experience
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Contributory pension scheme (conditions apply)
• Life assurance
• Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
• Cycle to work scheme

Closing date 15th May

Interview date 1st round 27th May; 2nd round 6th June

My client, a growing and dynamic Charity, is looking to recruit a finance business partner – a maternity cover in the finance team.

They are looking for an experienced business accountant to work with the charity and wider finance team in order to implement a programme of significant change to their finance systems and processes.

You will be expected to analyse current processes, systems and data and identify possible improvements and develop creative solutions.

The aim is to deliver better value for the business through provision of better information, faster delivery of reports, a greatly improved user experience and enhanced stewardship.

There will also be a number of ad hoc projects that will need supporting from a financial point of view

Prior financial experience in a management account or analyst role would be advantageous and the ability to be a self-starter, work with the wider business and engage with stakeholders at all levels is extremely important.

You will also need to adapt quickly and be able to fit within a small and close knit team

About the role:

An inspirational charity are currently seeking to appoint a Finance Business Partner. This varied role involves both Business Partnering and Financial Planning & Analysis. You will be joining the finance department and working collaboratively with the senior managers and directors within the organisation. This opportunity is predominantly remote, with occasional visits to the central London office.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as the finance lead in various projects across directorates, providing analysis, liaising with various stakeholders, and influencing decision making
• Business partnering for finance - building models to support FP&A across the charity, supporting with yearly budget processes in line with future financial/business plans and goals
• Producing ad hoc reporting and providing financial expertise when required by senior management
• Interpreting data/concepts and presenting this information to non-financial stakeholders
• Delivering training on finance systems/processes to various stakeholders
• Driving the monthly/quarterly financial forecasting processes - analyse forecasts and ensure planning is delivered in a timely manner

The successful candidate will be:

• ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified
• Solid, proven experience in:
• Business partnering
• Producing budgeting and forecasting
• Financial analysis and building models
• Preparing year end accounts
• Presenting complex finance information to various stakeholders
• Advanced Excel skills - confident building robust financial/business models and manipulating a high volume of data
• Proactive, self-starter, able to use own initiative and get stuck into tasks set
• Charity sector experience is desirable

ShareAction

We are at a pivotal moment: the climate and biodiversity crises are deepening, and inequalities are even more marked in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The global investment system has an oversized impact on many of these global challenges. We want to make sure that impact is positive. At ShareAction we work with investors, policymakers and individuals to unleash the positive potential of the investment system. We aim to build a world where our financial system serves our planet and its people.

Team

As part of the finance and operations team, you’ll play a crucial role in enabling the organisation to work effectively and efficiently. Our multi-faceted team proactively provides useful tools, information and support to staff, whilst also safeguarding the charity’s assets and managing risks. We’re a team of problem solvers, using our skills and experience to enhance ShareAction’s impact.

Position

This is a newly created role that will support ShareAction’s continued growth and build capacity and capability within the finance function. You will play a key part in ShareAction’s future growth and success, working closely with the Head of Finance, the fundraising team and budget holders around the organisation to ensure that all grant funding and project costs are in line with expectations and correctly accounted for.

As Finance Business Partner you will work with budget holders across the organisation, supporting the management of their budgets. In particular you will work closely with the fundraising team and delivery teams, ensuring that all grant finances are correctly structured and monitored.

A key part of your role initially will be building capacity and capability to enhance project level budgeting and management information, acting as a business partner to a range of non-finance stakeholders.

What you’ll do

The main responsibilities of the role will include:

• You will be working closely with our fundraising and delivery teams to create budgets for grant applications and new activities
• You will ensure that grant income, expenditure and cash flows are correctly recognised in our management accounts
• You will be identifying and managing the development of systems and processes to monitor expenditure and funding gaps on individual programmes and projects
• You will be supporting the organisational business planning, budgeting and forecasting processes, aligning with project budgets and funding
• You’ll create and maintain a register of finance deliverables from grant funding and ensure that financial reports are submitted accurately and on time
• You’ll business partner with budget holders across the organisation, becoming a trusted advisor and ensuring that they have sufficient information and training to effectively manage their own budgets
• You’ll be providing proactive financial analyses to support organisational decision making, increase/diversify income and ensure value for money from our expenditure
• You will identify and investigate variances to budgeted income and expenditure, working closely with budget holders to identify the business reasons and flag trends

Requirements

What you’ll bring to the team

• You’ll have a strong knowledge of best practice financial processes and control environments;
• You’ll need to be self-motivated, with the ability to work autonomously and work with a continuous improvement mind-set;
• You’ll have excellent communications skills, both written and verbal and the ability to communicate complex information and ideas;
• You’ll need an ability to build productive working relationships with internal stakeholders at all organisation levels;
• You’ll have an exceptional organisational and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure, plan and prioritise work effectively and meet deadlines;
• You will need advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and good working knowledge of other Microsoft Office applications as well as a high degree of computer literacy;
• You’ll need experience of working with accountancy software.

Desirable

• You would ideally have experience of working in or with the not for profit sector and knowledge of the charity SORP;
• You would ideally have excellent knowledge of accounting concepts through being a part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with relevant experience;
• You would ideally have experience of working within the finance function of an SME;
• You would ideally have experience of financial planning and accounting for project.

What we will do for you

• We will provide you support with any training you require on the job, including using the accountancy software (currently Quickbooks)
• You will gain valuable experience of shaping systems and processes in a growing organising
• By working closely with teams across the organisation you will develop a deep understanding of the work we do and how it relates to our mission

Other information

Contract type: Permanent but with possible flexibility to 4 days per week
Who it reports to: Director of Finance and Operations
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per annum + 8% pension contribution and benefits including a healthcare scheme

Deadline for applications: Monday June 6th June, 9am

Interview dates: w/c June 13th and 20th - There will likely be two stages of interviews

ShareAction values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and welcome applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and so if you are not 100 per cent sure that you meet all the requirements but believe you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and use the application questions to tell us about your experience and what you hope to bring to this role.

We also actively encourage staff to work in ways that best suit their needs and our flexible working policy outlines many of the options available- such as part-time and term-time working, job sharing, home working and working compressed hours. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

Please note that to be considered for this post you must be legally eligible to work in the UK. Due to current restrictions we are unable to hire anyone that isn’t already living in the UK. Due to our size we are unable to sponsor visas.