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Job title: Senior Finance Officer
Location: Farringdon/hybrid working
Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours)
Salary: £38,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Reporting to the Director of Finance and Resources, you’ll play a key role in delivering accurate financial information and supporting effective financial management across the organisation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Maintaining accurate financial records and overseeing bookkeeping processes
- Preparing monthly management accounts and financial reports
- Supporting budgeting and forecasting processes
- Assisting with project finance tracking and reporting
- Ensuring compliance with financial procedures and controls
- Working closely with non-finance stakeholders to provide clear financial insights
We’re looking for someone who is detail-oriented, proactive, and confident working with financial data.
You will have:
- Experience working within a finance function
- Strong bookkeeping and financial reporting experience
- Good knowledge of accounting systems (e.g. Sage 50 or similar)
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience supporting budgets and management accounts
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- AAT qualification or part-qualified CIMA/ACCA (or equivalent experience)
- Experience within the charity or not-for-profit sector
If you’re looking for a varied finance role where you can make a real impact and develop your skills further, please send your CV to TPP Recruitment [email protected]
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
The Senior Finance and Payroll Officer provides day-to-day financial management, reporting and business partnering support across the Royal Court Theatre (English Stage Company Ltd or ESC), a charity with two commercial companies. The role works closely with the Finance Manager, Finance Director and Bar and Kitchen General Manager as well as other departmental managers to ensure financial information is accurate, timely and fit for purpose.
A key focus will be the Catering Company. You will support robust financial controls, deliver key payroll and banking processes, and help maintain an effective operational link between the Catering subsidiary and charity, enabling informed decision-making and strong financial stewardship.
Keeping up to date with finance and payroll software advances and integrations, the Senior Finance and Payroll Officer will also review and report on efficiencies and improvements across our finance functions.
The successful candidate will:
- Strong working knowledge of payroll processes, including pensions, PAYE, NI and statutory compliance.
- Proactive and solutions-focused, with the confidence to identify and suggest process improvements
- Experience of using accounting systems such as Xero and related finance tools
- Collaborative approach, with the ability to build positive working relationships across teams
Further details of the role can be found in the Job Description below. If you are interested in this role, please complete an application form. Please address how you meet the criteria set out above within your application.
To note, your personal statement can also be sent through in the form of a voice note, or PowerPoint presentation (no more than five slides). Should there be a more accessible form for your application to be received, please contact the recruitment inbox.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact us via the email on our website.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.


