Finance Officer - Flexible within England
Reference: MAY20211087
Location: Flexible within England
Salary: £18,250.00 - £20,246.00 Per Annum, pro rata
Benefits: Pension, 34 days Annual Leave (pro-rata), Life Assurance

Do you have a flair for analysing financial information, overseeing budgets and working with others to get the most from limited resources? We are looking for a Finance Officer to support the RSPB's operational managers across Southern England, delivering our mission to give nature a home.

This role will be responsible for providing comprehensive business support for financial and budget processes and will be the main point of contact for the Finance Business Partner on all major budget and forecast queries.

You will need to work closely with budget managers and Fundraisers across the RSPB's Southern England team and take a flexible approach to ensure that financial support requirements are met.

You will need to develop and nurture effective working relationships with people at all levels and ensure confidential and sensitive financial matters are handled professionally.

The role is 0.6 full-time equivalent, meaning an average of 3 days per week, although we expect this to flex occasionally in response to peaks in workload, for instance at the end of the financial year.

This role is based flexibly and can be based at home - where a suitable home-working environment is in place - or within an RSPB office. Because this role will primarily be supporting the team across Southern England, our preference is for candidates to be based in the south. However, given most aspects of the role can be conducted remotely, consideration will be given to candidates across England.

Key responsibilities include:

• Act as Finance Officer for operational regions and functional teams; and the main point of contact for the Finance Business Partner on all major budget and forecast queries
• Coordinate and support timely receipt of budget forecasts and check accuracy of data in order to meet internal budget deadlines, including managing budget spreadsheets and working with budget holders to populate this for at forecasts and annual budget setting
• Establish, maintain and develop effective relationships with people at all levels on behalf of the Operations Director, to ensure confidential and sensitive financial matters are handled appropriately and professionally, for example when dealing with salary information
• Coordinate and attend budget review meetings in order to provide advice and support and contribute to the examination and challenge of data and budget assumptions
• Provide an overview of monthly management reports and transaction reports, highlighting any anomalies or errors to budget holders and provide support to make transaction amendments in order to ensure accurate tracking of all income and expenditure
• Co-ordinate and support year-end processes and raise paperwork required by the Finance Department to support accurate completion of yearly annual accounts, including grant accruals, carry forwards and compliance within given timeframes
• Provide support on country and/or UK-wide agri-environment payment schemes in the region, to include tracking payments, monitoring income, providing information for grant accruals, identifying agreements that are ending and supporting any transition to new schemes as applicable, working closely with the reserve and Rural Surveyor teams where required
• Provide support to Project Managers in setting up and establishing project budgets and for all project lifetime forecasts thereafter
• Work with the England Fundraising team to support budgeting, tracking, forecasting and claiming of externally grant-funded projects
• Provide eBIS support to the Operations Director and Area Managers as required, including processing of invoices.
• Provide timely and accurate information and support to Operations Director and Area Managers, enabling them to complete periodic budget reviews at key points in the year
• Provide basic finance training for new staff as part of their induction and ongoing development

What we need from you:

• Five GCSEs (or equivalent) to include Maths and English.
• Good working knowledge of Excel spreadsheets and ability to use other Microsoft Office applications including Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Experience of working with and understanding complex budget information.
• Sound financial analysis skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people within and external to the RSPB, both verbally and in writing.
• Good organisational and time management skills

Closing date: 23:59, 18 July 2021

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No agencies please.