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Head of Finance | DFN Project SEARCH
Remote, with travel to London on average once a month plus occasional site visits | £51,500 – £61,500 | 9-day fortnight (after probation), flexible working welcome
DFN Project SEARCH is a national charity supporting young adults with a learning disability, autism, or both, into real, paid, lasting work. Last year alone, 431 young people started jobs through our programme. We work with around 200 employers, colleges and local authorities across the UK, and we've supported over 2,900 people since we started. We're good at what we do, and we want to do a lot more of it. Our aim is to support 10,000 interns by 2030.
We've grown rapidly, which is exciting, and this role has been newly created to make sure all the finance processes are set up so that we can continue to grow and scale properly. So, this isn't a steady-state job where you inherit clean processes and just keep them ticking. You'll be helping to build the structure as the charity grows around it.
That means we need someone who can lead and do. You'll own the finance function end to end: month-end, management accounts, statutory reporting, cash flow, controls. You'll also shape how all of it should work as we continue to grow. One day you're posting journals and reconciling the balance sheet; the next you're helping a budget holder who's never read a P&L understand their numbers, or modelling what reaching 10,000 interns actually means financially. You'll report to the Finance Director and line manage our Finance Administrator.
What your time will look like:
- Running the finance function day to day and ensuring everything is accurate, compliant and efficient, which means journals, reconciliations, month-end close, the monthly rhythm
- Producing management accounts and board-level reporting that people can act on, with clear commentary
- Working with the Finance Director on budgeting, statutory accounts, audit and VAT
- Strengthening cash flow forecasting, treasury, reserves and credit control
- Owning the controls framework, financial policies and procedures, and getting more out of Xero so we have real-time insight, not using out-of-date assumptions to make business critical decisions
- Managing restricted, designated and unrestricted funds, and reporting to funders properly and on time
- Supporting fundraising and bid colleagues with budgets for grant applications and tenders
- Overseeing payroll and pensions with our provider
- Helping non-finance colleagues across the charity get more confident in their own financial understanding
What we need from you:
- A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA or equivalent)
- Solid charity finance experience. You'll know Charity SORP, restricted funds and grant reporting, and you're across the changes coming to SORP
- Someone happy with their hands on the controls: month-end, reconciliations, statutory accounts and board reporting
- Strong on Xero (or quick to get there) and advanced Excel
- The ability to explain numbers clearly to people who don't think in numbers
- Experience setting up or developing financial instructions, controls and processes in a charity
You don't need to tick every single box. If you've been part of a finance team that's been through this kind of change and you're ready to step up and lead it yourself, we'd still really like to hear from you.
But honestly, the most important element is you, and how you bring people along with you through a period of change. You'll be comfortable bringing structure and calm to an organisation that's still growing into its processes. We need someone who can be calm and measured when the numbers feel busy, who can be a steady anchor point for the team when a lot is changing, and who knows when to help and when to teach someone how to help themselves. You'll be relentless about making things better, but able to bring people with you rather than drag them. If you want to lead a change rather than just be part of one, this is for you!
The practical stuff: This is a remote and flexible role, and we mean it, but it isn't a "never-leave-the-house" role. The leadership team comes together regularly, on average once a month, plus occasional travel to sites and the odd away day. Travel is always planned in advance and we cover the costs. If you can reach London comfortably and you value time with the people you work with, you'll get the best of both.
- 25 days' annual leave, plus your birthday off and bank holidays on top, with the option to buy back additional leave
- 9-day fortnight after successful completion of probation: 37.5 hours worked across nine days, with the tenth day off
- Flexible working genuinely considered: job share, part-time (minimum 4 days), compressed hours
- Pension: 6% employer contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme and NHS top-up wellbeing support
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship, so you'll need the existing right to work in the UK.
It won't be a surprise that we're a Disability Confident employer. We share interview questions in advance, and if you need any adjustments to the process, or a different format for any stage, please just tell us.
If you're a charity finance person who wants their work to really mean something, and who fancies building something rather than just maintaining it, we'd love to hear from you.
Dates to note:
- Closing date: 16th June
- First interviews (remote): 24th–25th June
- Final interviews (London): 30th June
Registered Charity 
11 - 20
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Role Purpose
To ensure the organisation runs professionally and smoothly through maintaining its financial and accounting control functions in line with policies and requirements, and that financial information for internal and external use is available and accurate.
Role Overview
This role will be located at Salford Students’ Union. Working arrangements are hybrid. The majority of the day will be spent working on systems, and will also be a key point of contact for non-finance colleagues. The team are supported by a shared finance leadership structure operating across three Students’ Unions in Manchester. The key systems are Soldo (expenses), Approval Max (purchase orders), Square (EPOS) and Xero (accounting). The team are also working on a review of systems and may be making system changes in the coming months. There will be an opportunity in the coming months to gain experience of system and process development.
Main Responsibilities and Activities
- Accounts Payable/Receivable:
- Processing invoices, matching purchase orders, reconciling central billing statements and following up on payments.
- Ensuring credit notes have been authorised and properly coded (including VAT), following the process from purchase right through to payment.
- Sales ledger and commercial services support, including raising sales invoices, debt chasing and reconciliation of the daily sales postings between the EPOS system and accounting software.
- Expenses: Managing and processing student group & employee expense claims.
- Payroll: Preparing monthly payroll information for submission to the external payroll provider, including collating casual staff time sheets and all starter and leaver information.
- Month end processes: ensuring all ledgers are closed in line with the month end timetable, contributing to month processes such as expenditure accruals.
- Balance sheet: Reconciling key control accounts including bank accounts, sales postings, credit cards, Soldo card transactions and supplier statements monthly.
- Treasury management: Bank liaison (including updating mandates, signatory details, etc), bank reconciliations, posting of bank receipts and payments.
- Audit: Responding to audit sampling transactional related requests for information.
- Systems: Ownership of key finance system processes and contributing to the development of new finance processes.
- Other finance duties: other finance duties commensurate with the level of the role.
- Liaison with managers and staff members regarding spend against budgets, and payroll enquiries.
- Liaison with finance team members regarding process improvements and new requirements.
- Working with the Student Opportunities team to ensure a high quality finance service is offered to student groups Develop and maintain relationships with colleagues throughout the Union, University and other external partners.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
- Experience of working with finance and connected systems such as EPOS and expenses.
- Either AAT or qualified by experience in a transactional finance role.
- Previous experience of working in a transactional finance role supporting activities such as:
- Purchase ledger
- Sales ledger
- Expenses
- Balance sheet reconciliations
Skills and Abilities
- Attention to detail: accuracy in data input, ensuring correct accounting treatment for all financial transactions.
- Communication: the ability to communicate key finance processes to non-finance colleagues and offer a great finance service to colleagues and students.
- Organised: ability to manage own time effectively ensuring all key financial deadlines are met.
- Managing queries: ability to investigate and resolve queries from non-finance colleagues as they relate to the scope of the role.
- System focused: adapts easily to new systems and is able to troubleshoot system challenges and issues.
Values and Behaviours
- A demonstrable commitment to Salford SU’s values, mission and purpose.
- A strong commitment to championing equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Comfortable working in a democratic, student-led environment and being an enthusiastic advocate for student voice and representation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.