The Charity for Civil Servants Hiring for Finance Manager Job at Sutton, London, England Full Time

The vision of The Charity for Civil Servants is a lifelong community; people offering effective support for each other when life takes a turn for the worse. The Charity for Civil Servants’ mission is to support all civil servants, past and present, throughout their lives, with whatever problems they may have. We listen without judgement and offer practical, financial and emotional support.

The Finance Manager (to be known internally as Head of Finance) will play a key role in leading the finance function and will assist the Director of Finance and Corporate Services in ensuring a robust control environment, delivering management and statutory reporting and contributing to ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of the Charity. This role involves managing all aspects of the Charity’s finances. This is a full-time role but part-time hours will be considered – minimum 25 hours per week, this can be discussed at the interview stage.

We are looking for a fully-qualified accountant with significant post-qualification experience. You must be an experienced line manager with the ability to lead, motivate and develop a finance team to produce high-quality output and build successful relationships within the team remotely and in person. The successful candidate will also have experience of improving finance processes and creating efficiencies in ways of working. Strong analytical skills and the ability to see and contribute to the bigger picture whilst working quickly and efficiently at a detailed level is important in this role and will require someone very solutions focused.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and managing a small finance team including developing, motivating and supporting team members, and fostering a positive, supportive and collaborative team culture
• Being responsible for all aspects of financial accounting
• Maintaining and developing a robust financial control environment within the Charity
• Leading the financial year end, managing the production of the Annual Statutory Accounts in compliance with latest SORP and legislation
• Overseeing preparation of management financial information to aid decision making, liaising with other teams and acting as a business partner
• Running the annual budget process for the Charity and production of forecasts
• Contributing to the long-term financial strategy for the Charity

In return, we can offer you excellent benefits including a health cash plan, life assurance, excellent pension, generous annual leave, and interest free loans for season tickets and our cycle to work scheme.

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter that states why you would be suitable for this role. The closing date for applications is 11pm on Sunday, 9th October 2022. Interviews will take place on 12th-13th October, with second interviews taking place during the week after, if you are not available on these dates please let us know on your cover letter.

The Charity for Civil Servants is committed to building and developing a workforce which reflects the diversity of the civil service community that we support. We seek to ensure all job applications are treated fairly, with respect and without bias and we encourage applications from suitably experienced candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, or any other factor.