Are you looking to lead on management accounting for a children's charity?

Would working to business partner with multiple senior stakeholders be of interest to you?

Does working for a long established charity in Central London interest you?

The Benefits

• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Generous salary package of £45-50k
• Substantial pension contribution
• Working in a large office in Central London

The Role

• Producing detailed management reporting for areas including fundraising and service contracts
• Prepare cashflow forecasting and additional strategic financial plans in collaboration with other members of the senior finance team
• Working towards planning, maintenance and development of the budget for the charity
• Act as a business partner to various members of the SMT including senior non-finance staff, in order to deliver and present financial information in a way that is understandable
• Provide training and exposure for junior members of the team

The Candidate

• A qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA)
• Excellent communication skills with experience in working with and explaining complex financial information to non-finance staff
• A proactive nature
• Ideally have experience working in a charitable organisation
• Ideally have experience of working with service contracts from a finance perspective

Applications are being reviewed daily so please apply now!

Management Accountant – Health Charity

Are you a part qualified or finalist accountant looking for a management accountant role? Are you looking for your next role in a large organisation where you can make an impact? Are you keen to take on a role with study support and a pathway for internal progression?

This well known health charity are looking for a new Management Accountant to support this well respected finance function. Responsibilities will include assisting with the production of monthly management accounts, partnering with budget holders, supporting the creation of the yearly budget and performing international bank reconciliations. The salary for this role is £38,000 - £42,000 depending on experience with a joint contribution pension scheme and the benefits listed below.

This will be the right role for you if you are analytical with excellent interpersonal skills and a desire to progress your finance career. The successful candidate in this role will have the opportunity to qualify into a large finance function, and the organisation are looking for someone who is keen to grow internally, with a view of long term progression. You will also posses excellent technical skills across financial packages and the Microsoft suite. You will be close to completing, or have well underway your CIMA, ACCA or similar and looking to get stuck in with a new organisation! You may be looking to launch your non profit career, or keen on further experience and open to any sector, either way read on to find out more.

Benefits:

• Full Study Support including 5 days annually of study leave and exams paid for (unfortunately re-takes cannot be subsidised)
• Private medical insurance
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing by 1 day a year up to 30 days)
• Salary sacrifice and season ticket loan schemes
• TOIL (Time Off In Lieu) for overtime worked

This role requires someone who has experience of performing financial analysis, producing management accounts, and reconciliation work. Non-profit or Charity experience is beneficial but not required, more important are your interpersonal and technical skills and an enthusiastic, get stuck in approach!

If it sounds like this role could be your next step, please apply or contact Emma at Allen Lane for a conversation about the opportunity.

The Management Accountant will have a pivotal role in the Finance department. The role will involve being a financial business partner for our core and fundraising departments, acting as their main interface for setting and monitoring budgets and assisting them to set financial strategies. At an organisational level, the role will help create global management reporting processes, including strategic KPIs, budgets, and cashflow and investments. They will be provide financial analysis to help inform organisational financial strategy, as well as for day-to-day financial management.

Role requirements

A qualified accountant with significant experience of management accounting and business partnering in an international organisation, the Management Accountant will have a firm understanding of NGO finance requirements, including the importance of UK SORP, donor compliance and multicurrency environments.

Further Information

Click on the apply button and you will be directed to our vacancy page.

ClientEarth is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Please note that ClientEarth will only be able to employ those who have the legal right to work in the country where this post is based.

About us

The vision of Global Witness is simple: we want a better world - where corruption is challenged and accountability prevails, all can thrive within the planet’s boundaries, and governments act in the public interest.

We’ve been creating change for over 20 years, from alerting the world to blood diamonds to halting forest destruction deals.  Our investigations have changed the world.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Donor and Management Accountant to join our Finance Team, an important part of our support structure that helps our campaign teams deliver on our organisational goals.

About the role

This key role will work collaboratively across the organisation, providing an essential service to internal and external financial users, as well as providing leadership and management to a skilled team member.

Working closely with fundraisers and campaign teams, you’ll prepare and monitor our donor budget reports, presenting information relating to both the restricted and unrestricted fund balances available. You’ll also be supportive in planning and co-ordinating preparation of the organisation’s annual budget and reforecasts.

About you

You’ll be a part qualified Accountant with a proven track record in a similar role, having already demonstrated the knowledge and skills needed to produce management accounts for senior staff and budget holders.

You’ll have excellent knowledge and experience of accounting for restricted funds and accounting systems.

Finally, you’ll bring your excellent attention to detail, as you ensure financial controls are fully adhered to, and feel at home working as part of a high performing team to deliver a precise service.

What you can expect from us

We’ll reward you through a combination of an exciting and challenging role together with a sector competitive salary and benefits package, high levels of engagement and involvement, and a commitment to your development.

Benefits include a generous leave allowance, pension scheme and health insurance as well as opportunities to work flexibly in an engaging and friendly environment.

We aim to be a diverse and inclusive place to work.  We value new perspectives, original ideas and different ways of working. We believe that diverse views and experiences improve the way we do our work. We do our best to make our jobs accessible to all regardless of regardless of race, colour, religious belief, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, military service, protected veteran status, or other groups as protected by law.

How to apply

Please send in your CV and a covering letter telling us how you meet the role requirements (no more than two pages please) by Midnight on 03 February 2020.

Management Accountant

An exciting opportunity for a part qualified management accountant has arisen at one of London’s fastest growing museums. A commercially minded and forward organisation, this role will suit someone who has experience in both the charity or art sector and commercial organisations. If you are a part qualified finance professional, with an interest in museums and art, this could be the right role for you! Would you enjoy management accounting at a commercially minded charity where you can see the impact of the numbers you are working with on a daily basis?

The responsibilities for this role include creating the monthly management packs by liaising with mid-level and senior stakeholders across the organisation, working with budget holders on their accruals, deferments and budgets, supporting the Head of Finance as necessary. You will sit as part of a fairly small finance team, so will be able to work outside your job description, gaining exposure to a range of charitable financial activities.

Requirements:

• You must have at least 2 years management accounting experience, with exposure to the full pack and ideally have written or produced commentary
• You will be part qualified, with the desire to qualify in the next few years (there will be opportunities to work outside your job description on other exciting projects)
• You have worked with accruals, deferments and journals, and are able to apply your technical knowledge in ways that are easily understandable to non-finance professionals
• You will be articulate, emotionally intelligent and bright, with excellent attention to detail and organisation skills

Benefits:

• Study support including 5 extra days leave a year and money towards your studies
• Salary of £35,000 to £38,000 per annum
• Working in a close knit, friendly team in an artistic and expressive space

If you are interested in this role, please apply or get in touch with Emma at Allen Lane to find out more.

Job Overview

Management Accountant for a London based charity

£45,000 - £50,000

Permanent position

Large complex children’s focused charity.

Responsibilities

The client is seeking a Qualified and experienced Management Accountant to fulfil an exciting and varied role within its head office environment.

The charity receives some funding from Local Authorises and have experience of working with in the charity sector funded in a like manner would be highly beneficial.

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Finance, this challenging and busy role will see the successful candidate producing monthly management accounts for the organisation, playing a key role in the production of annual budgets and regular forecasts and reforecasts.  In addition, this role will involve regular contact with a range of budget-holders across the organisation, providing financial support and advice to non-finance colleagues, analysing and addressing any areas of over and under-spend.

• Produce accurate and timely monthly management and departmental accounts.
• Hold regular reviews with budget holders, identifying variances and correcting errors accordingly. Provide alerts on matters of likely current or future financial concern as soon as these are known within the management accounts commentary.
• Provide ad hoc financial management information and analysis on request, including in the more technically complex areas of the management accounts.
• Provide information relating to key performance indicators including sector comparisons where appropriate to Executive Team and Committees.

The successful candidate will also be tasked with conducting analysis of a range of operational key performance indicators, as well as taking a proactive approach to process improvement.

This exciting role would suit a recently Qualified Management Accountant with strong organisational and communications skills.

Qualifications/experience required

Qualified with strong Management Accountant experience.

What’s on offer?

£45,000 - £50,000

Management Accountant - Press: £45,000 - £48,000 + Benefits, London

For a global education company, we're recruiting a Management Accountant on a permanent basis. Reporting to the Head of Business Partnering, this role will produce and deliver management accounts along with accurate and insightful management information to senior stakeholders as well as acting as the Business Partner to the Press Directorate. The Management Accountant will be instrumental in helping transform the finance function by improving month-end processes, improving the quality of management information and the timeliness of reporting and checks and controls.

Main Duties:

• Act as Finance Business Partner for the Press Directorate, providing advice and guidance to the Press team.
• Liaise with the Director and Press Team to produce robust budgets and forecasts; Support on ad-hoc business cases, projects and analysis
• Prepare regular monthly financial income and expenditure reports to managers including narratives, variance analysis and year-end forecasts.
• Completion and ledger posting of prepayments and accruals; Monthly ledger balance sheet analysis; Reconciliation of income and expenditure adjustments
• Support Head of Business Partnering in preparation for monthly financial meetings with budget holders to review accounts, forecasts and queries
• Provide forecasts and commentaries to help decision making and to challenge forecasts
• Actively lead on continuous improvement of financial processes and controls
• Prepare templates for forecast and budget and support Head of Business Partnering in analysing and reviewing year-on-year variances
• Assist production of year-end accounts and financial returns and support during interim and final external audits

Person Specification:

• ACCA, ACA or CIMA finalist or newly qualified
• Advanced MS Excel skills and working knowledge of Sun Systems (ideally)
• Strong experience in preparing year-end and monthly management accounts including year-end forecasts and budgets
• Experience of consolidation of management accounts packs for management reporting
• Experience of working in a multicultural and multisite organisation
• Proactive, solution oriented with experience of process improvement
• Experience of the Publishing industry and stock accounting

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Job Overview

Management Accountant for a well-established charity in Zone 1

£38,000 – £43,000

Zone 1 Location

35 hour working week.

25 days holidays & additional benefits.

Responsibilities

A growing London-based charity is seeking an experienced Management Accountant to join their finance team to help support and manage the finance function of the organisation. Reporting directly into and working closely with the Financial Controller, you will enjoy a very high level of responsibility and autonomy.

This is an excellent chance to build upon previous experiences and develop your career within a well-known organization, by taking a hands-on role within the finance function of the charity.

This exciting opportunity will see the successful candidate handling a varied workload, ranging from Management Accounts (prepared on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis), financial planning, budgeting, VAT, Projects reporting and preparing the Statutory accounts.

Qualified accountant who has good understanding of the charity SORP, VAT, taxation and company legislation is essential. Candidate must have previous charity experience, be flexible, adaptable and comfortable to hit the ground running.

Candidates Qualified by Experience may be considered, depending on quality of application.

It is essential that candidates can demonstrate longevity in post on their CV.

Qualifications/experience required

• CIMA, ACA, ACCA qualified or international equivalent.
• Experience of working within large and ‘complex’ organisations.

What’s on offer?

£38,000 - £43,000 + Benefits

In this role, you will take the lead on financial analysis, reporting and cost modelling, working alongside the Senior Management Accountant and Director of Finance and Estates to support the financial management of the Trust. As a qualified accountant with experience of developing financial reporting, complex budget setting and financial analysis, you will inform decision making by supporting teams across the organisation. Throughout, you will ensure best practice is followed and work to develop productive interdepartmental relationships.

While this role is full time (35 hours), a part time arrangement (28 hours) may be considered. This can be discussed at interview.

In response to the growth and increasing diversity of our business, we are currently seeking a skilled professional Accountant (or part qualified Accountant) to join our Finance team. 

SHP (Single Homeless Project) is one of London’s leading homelessness prevention charities and a dynamic and growing organisation changing 8,000 lives every year across London - from supporting people in crisis, to helping them take the final steps towards independence and employment.

As an Accountant you will be responsible for ensuring that the accounting records are complete and accurate, as well as supporting the development and implementation of accounting systems and processes; ensuring these are efficient and effective.  You will also be responsible for setting service charges across our schemes, monitoring and updating the financial data in the rents system and taking ownership of a large number of complex reconciliations across all balance sheet control accounts and bank recs.

With proven experience in the field, the ideal applicant will possess some experience of service charge setting for tenants.  You will also be competent with Excel functions combined with the ability to handle and present large volumes of data. Additionally, you will need an exceptional attention to detail, be competent at managing conflicting deadlines and possess good communication skills.

Interview date: 10th February 2020

Please note that we may close this vacancy early, if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

This post will require a Basic DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant. 

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: SHP will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

SHP is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.  We are also Disability Confident Committed, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and IIP accredited.  In the London Homelessness Awards 2019 one of our Projects has been commended for their work.

Would you enjoy driving positive change through finance systems and processes? Interested in working for a well-known charity? Have you got previous experience in a systems-based role? If yes, please read on!

Robertson Bell are pleased to be partnering with one of the UKs most known charities whilst they recruit for a Systems Accountant. This is an exciting time for the organisation and offers the successful candidate brilliant opportunities to lead on several key projects over the coming years. Reporting into the Head of Accounts you will initially be responsible for one Analyst however this team is likely to grow once the role is established. Duties will include:

• Drive change through reviewing current systems and suggesting necessary improvements rolling these out across the department.
• Play a key role in developing the business and shared services through improving the finance system.
• Act as the main point of contact for user queries and be able to troubleshoot problems.
• Create and deliver relevant workshops and training for internal staff.
• Through the use of systems enhance reporting capabilities with a main focus of increasing efficiency.
• Liaise with key stakeholders and manage important relationships.
• Work closely with the Head of Accounts to make strategic decisions related to systems.
• Mentor, motivate and supervise one member of staff.

This Systems Accountant vacancy is the perfect opportunity for someone with several years' experience in a systems focused role and extensive experience of using Oracle, ERP and Cloud systems. As this department is likely to expand and grow previous management experience is also key. This position will be based in east Essex.

The successful candidate will:

• Have proven experience using Oracle.
• Have proven experience in a systems-based role.
• Have driven change and process improvements.
• Be an excellent communicator.
• Have previously managed staff.

If you feel this post could be of interest to you then please do not hesitate in applying as applications are being reviewed daily.

We are working with a nationally recognised arts charity, renowned for both their breath-taking productions and outreach work. Currently going through a finance transformation project, this is a very exciting time to join as you will be part of an established charity with fresh ideas.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Assisting with month end processes by processing various income and expenditure items including their reconciliation
• Preparing balance sheet accounts reconciliations on a monthly basis
• Preparing and submitting the quarterly VAT and withholding tax returns
• Overall responsibility for all capital expenditure including budgets, maintaining the fixed asset register and posting monthly depreciation
• Assisting with the preparation of the statutory accounts including auditors lead schedules
• Preparing the monthly cashflow
• To challenge financial processes and work with the HOF to improve the control environment in the organisation

To be the right person for this role, you will have had experience of different accounting cycles, you will be methodical with strong problem solving capabilities. Your excel skills will be excellent and you will be a part qualified finance professional seeking to qualify.

Interviews are being scheduled as applications come in, so apply now or contact Emma at Allen Lane to find out more.

The primary responsibility of the Business Accountant is to provide financial management services, assurance and monitoring on designated Options’ programmes and will take the lead on programme related financial reporting from Options overseas offices and key suppliers.

Responsibilities: 

• There is a team of 3 BA’s in Options overseeing the financial management of all Options’ programmes. This is a fundamental role ensuring that Options’ has robust programme financial and management accounting processes in place, particularly in Options’ overseas offices.
• The BA receives monthly accounts from Options’ overseas offices. The BA will interrogate, reconcile and validate the financial returns to ensure they meet the robust requirements before being transferred to Options’ accounting system. The BA will work closely with the overseas Finance Managers to ensure any discrepancies are resolved. The BA will take the lead on any development and capacity building needed for the overseas Finance Managers which will involve overseas travel.
• The BA will prepare financial reports for clients using Options’ reporting standards or client reporting requirements if specified. The BA is the main QA for financial reporting to clients, working closely with the programme teams ensuring reports are reconciled with Options’ accounting system.
• The BA will work closely with the programmes team to ensure client financial requirements are taken into consideration when setting up the financial management structure of each individual programme.
• The BA will provide advice and QA when budgets are created on a rolling basis for programmes. The BA will need to be able to understand the technical aspects of the programme to add value to the budgeting process. 

Person specification: 

• Fully qualified, or close to, CCAB accountant.
• Extensive experience managing donor / client funds within international development, understanding the generic financial regulations that are often in place
• In depth experience of development programme budgeting
• Excellent financial accounting skills with experience preparing statutory accounts as well as donor / client financial reports.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting packages and experience with report writing packages. SUN and Vision Q&A would be beneficial.
• A “can do” and team focused approach is vital.

Benefits: 

Options offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous annual leave allowance, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and a performance related bonus scheme.

Application process: 

• Closing date for applications is: 07 February 2020. Please note that the closing date for this vacancy is for guidance only. Applications will be screened upon receipt and this vacancy may be closed as soon as sufficient applicants have been received.
• Due to the volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview. Interviews may be organised directly with shortlisted applicants on a rolling basis and the position may be filled before the closing date.
• Please note that this role will be subject to full pre-employment background checks including identification check, employment references, right to work verification, credit check and criminal record check (where appropriate).

Other information: 

Options is an equal opportunities employer.

Overseas candidates require a valid UK work permit.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.

We seek people who are pro-choice, energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.

With a very recent merger, my client is a fresh new brand in the UK charity market. With much of the top level strategy and business plan in place, they are now looking for interim support to assist with the integration of its finance function.

Working closely with the business, you will provide support on the design and implementation of a new chart of accounts for the organisation. Supporting the consolidation of processes, you will also review budget templates and management reports.

The successful candidate will be a qualified Accountant with a strong financial controls background (commerce, practice or NfP). Although experience of supporting change programmes would be an advantage, an ambitious appetite to explore systems development and/or project management is essential.