Job Title: Senior Financial Accounting Manager
Salary: £48,000 to £52,000
Location: Northwest (with flexibility)
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
This is a fabulous opportunity to join one of the UK’s largest and most successful charities, as a Senior Financial Accounting Manager. Within this role you will have the chance to lead a complex and varied financial controls function, influencing senior stakeholders and leading critical statutory reporting, audit, treasury, and compliance activities.
Day-to-day of the role:
- Maintain and strengthen the organisation’s financial control framework.
- Own balance sheet integrity and produce monthly balance sheet and cash flow reporting.
- Lead the preparation and review of statutory accounts and financial statements.
- Coordinate the consolidation of group and subsidiary accounts.
- Manage external audit relationships and ensure successful audit delivery.
- Oversee compliance submissions including HMRC, ONS, Gift Aid, and other regulatory requirements.
- Lead treasury accounting, liquidity reporting, and cash flow forecasting.
- Support business acquisitions, mergers, and integrations from a finance perspective.
- Drive financial process improvement and reduce manual intervention through smarter controls and systems.
- Translate complex accounting matters into clear, meaningful insights for senior leaders and trustees.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing finance team.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified.
- Significant experience within financial accounting, financial controls, audit, or statutory reporting.
- Strong understanding of UK accounting standards, financial regulations, and governance requirements.
- Experience producing consolidated group accounts.
- Experience managing and coordinating external audits.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong leadership experience with a track record of developing teams.
- Advanced Excel skills.
Highly Desirable:
- Experience working within a charity or not-for-profit environment.
- M&A accounting and business integration experience.
- Exposure to complex group structures.
- Experience leading finance transformation or control improvement projects.
Benefits:
- Flexibility to work full-time hours over 4 days, with hybrid working
- Retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme, and travel discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme, financial support options, and wellbeing fund.
A great opportunity
You’ll become part of an award-winning organisation that’s recognised as a Great Place to Work and committed to developing its people. You’ll be instrumental in ensuring their financial governance remains industry-leading, directly contributing to their mission of supporting thousands to live the best lives possible.
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