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Head of Finance | London | Hybrid (minimum 3 days on site)
One of London’s most prestigious institutions, working within a unique and historic estate.
The Organisation
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn is one of the four Inns of Court and a highly prestigious institution at the heart of the legal profession. Lincoln’s Inn is a thriving society of students, barristers and judges set within an historic eleven-acre estate in central London, offering a stunning and unique working environment.
Operating on a not-for-profit basis, the Inn generates the majority of its circa £25m income through its property portfolio, alongside catering, events and services to members, tenants and the public. The organisation has around 160 employees and a well-established finance team of 6. It has a unique structure, sitting outside of a typical company or charity model, but follows UK GAAP and FRS principles where appropriate. The Inn offers a generous benefits package and the opportunity to work with an engaged and friendly team.
The Job
Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will lead on financial reporting, management accounts, budgeting, forecasting, controls, cashflow and audit, ensuring strong financial governance.
This is a broad, hands-on job combining technical delivery with senior stakeholder engagement.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead monthly management accounts with clear insight and commentary
- Budgeting, forecasting and financial planning
- Manage cashflow, controls and balance sheet reconciliations
- Oversee payroll for c.160 staff, including statutory submissions
- Manage VAT, CIS and compliance
- Lead year end accounts and act as key contact for audit, tax and investment advisors
- Support investment reporting and committees
- Deliver ad hoc analysis and reporting
- Line manage 2 Finance Business Partners, with indirect oversight of a Finance Assistant and Finance Apprentice
The Person
You will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with strong senior finance experience.
Key skills and experience:
- Strong background in management accounts, financial reporting, budgeting and audit
- Experience liaising with auditors, tax advisors and investment consultants
- Proven experience in a Head of Finance or Finance Manager job
- Strong cashflow management and financial controls experience
- Ability to work independently with a hands-on approach
- Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills
- Experience delivering process improvements or small projects
- Proven team leadership, with the ability to balance firm decision making with coaching
- Strong Excel and finance systems skills
Experience within the charity, not for profit or membership sector would be advantageous, but not essential. Payroll experience is beneficial.
This is a small team environment, so they are looking for someone who is collaborative, approachable and enjoys being part of a social team.
What’s in it for you?
Lincoln’s Inn offers an excellent salary and benefits package, including:
- Competitive salary - £80,000
- Hybrid working (3 days on site)
- 30+ days annual leave including closures at Xmas and Easter
- 12.5% non-contributory pension
- Private medical insurance
- Free lunch on site
- Strong focus on work life balance and development
- Supportive and social working environment
How to Apply
Lincoln’s Inn is working in partnership with Hays Senior Finance to identify the right person for this position. For further information, please contact Peter O’Sullivan at Hays.
To be considered, please submit your application in the first instance. Suitable applicants will be contacted by Peter to discuss next steps.
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Job Title - Senior Billing Officer and Coordinator
Contract - Permanent
Hours - Part time 0.6 FTE (21 hours per week) or 0.8 FTE (28 hours per week) with some flexibility around working hours
Salary Range - £30,000 to 40,000 FTE pro rata (£18,800 to £24,000 for 0.6FTE and £24,000 to £32,000 for 0.8FTE)
Location - London office - Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
About Coram
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
One of the nine members of the Coram group, Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) is the UK’s specialist centre for children’s rights in education, immigration, community care and family law, and provides significant international legal systems consultancy. The centre is located on the Coram Campus in central London with a base in Colchester. We champion access to justice through information and advice, legal practice and representation, policy and strategic litigation. Our Legal Practice Unit provides advice and representation primarily under legal aid contract. Our Policy and Practice Change team promotes practice change through training and capacity building to professionals and secures systems change through research, policy and advocacy.
About the role
This role will coordinate, oversee and supervise the Legal Practice Unit’s legal aid billing operations. Through systematic and efficient management, the post-holder will play an important role in CCLC’s financial and operational sustainability. Working with the Managing Director of Legal Practice, the Heads of Department and Coram’s central finance team, the key objective of the role is to help maximise the unit’s legal aid billing in controlled work, certificated work and inter partes costs. It will also oversee private fees billing. The post-holder will oversee the smooth running of legal aid billing. In this role, the post-holder will work very closely with legal, operations and administrative staff. The role will act as a key point of contact for a range of internal and external stakeholders including Coram’s central finance team who will support the role with grant fund management and overall accounting functions for CCLC. The post-holder will support the Managing Director of Legal Practice and Children’s Rights and department heads in the successful maintenance of our relationship with the Legal Aid Agency.
The role would suit a legal aid billing professional with significant direct hands on experience of a range of types of civil legal aid billing (including controlled and certificated work) and an understanding of the challenges of legal aid. The ideal candidate will have experience of supervising the work of others but support and training will be provided. We are looking for someone who is interested in developing into management, is a proactive problem solver, is highly organised and able to maintain oversight over different workstreams ensuring progress. In addition to legal aid experience, they will need an aptitude for processing large amounts of data, developing and managing spreadsheets and improving organisational systems. They will be well supported through training, an enthusiastic and competent junior billing team, the central finance team and an outsourced legal cashiering company, as well as a friendly and collaborative management team including the Managing Director and the Heads of practice areas.
This is a largely office-based role in order to fully provide support to the billing team. However, some remote / hybrid working may be possible depending the experience of the candidate after the initial settling in period and there will be flexibility over how the working hours days will be spread across the week (within working hours). The team are mostly based in the London office and with one billing team member in Colchester so the postholder may require some occasional travel.
For further information on CCLC please visit our website.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing date: Sunday 7th June 2026 at 23:55
Test and Interview date: Week commencing 15th June 2026
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
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