Senior Finance Manager Systems & Compliance

Senior Finance Manager Systems & Compliance

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The Sutton Trust London, United Kingdom Full Time Reference:

• Overseeing the Finance Officer's work including sales ledger, purchase ledger and general processes and ensuring transactions are posted accurately and timely as well as supporting reconciliations and resolving discrepancies Other duties as necessary from time to time
• Overseeing month-end and year-end processes, including reconciliations and preparing trial balances and journal postings.
• Preparing year-end schedules and statutory accounts, working closely with the Director of Finance & Operations and external auditors. Liaising with external auditors and managing the audit process.
• Ensuring legal and regulatory compliance (e.g. Companies House, Charity Commission)
• Managing the finance system, including data integrity, user access and system upgrades. Supporting finance-related integrations with other systems, and ongoing system improvements/ automation.
• Supporting the Director of Finance & Operations to ensure there is an effective system of financial controls, e.g. feeding into policies, procedures and team-wide training, as required
• Line managing, motivating and proactively supporting the Finance Officer in their professional development
• Proactively updating your own knowledge in relation to the role, identifying and undertaking appropriate training
• Keeping up to date with legislation, policies and procedures relevant to the role and the Trust's work
• Other duties as necessary from time to time
• A hands-on, generalist finance role with strong experience of a wide variety of finance processes
• Supporting or leading on aspects of the year-end processes and/ or the annual audit, including producing year-end schedules, accounts and liaising with the auditors
• Improving financial controls and processes, and using technology or automation to improve efficiencies
• Leading on finance system administration
• Managing and supporting junior finance staff
• Working in the education or not-for-profit sector (desirable)
• Working with XLedger or a similar accounting software (desirable)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills at all levels
• Strong planning and prioritization skills with ability to manage financial processes to deadlines
• Strong understanding of accounting principles as well double-entry bookkeeping
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
• High standards of integrity and confidentiality
• A qualified accountant with post qualification experience, or equivalent demonstrable work experience
• Sympathetic to the aims of the Trust and its mission to address educational disadvantage
• Ability to work across multiple teams with staff of varying finance abilities
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team and independently with a high degree of initiative
• A flexible and adaptable approach to accommodate the varying aspects of the role, able to prioritize tasks and work to deadlines
• Excellent analytical skills and high attention to detail
• Eligible to work in the UK (see here for information about right to work)
• Part-time, Permanent (24 hours per week)
• £50,000-£55,000 (Pro-rata)
• Office location: The Sutton Trust, 9th Floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP. Our home working policy gives staff the option to work from home for up to 60% of the time, with approval from their line manager.
• Hours: The standard working hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday and may also be required to attend events / meetings outside of their normal working hours during weekday evenings and occasionally at weekends
• DBS check may be required
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

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