Location
Brasted, Kent | United Kingdom
Job description
Catch22 is a social business which design and delivers services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. We believe that people can thrive when they have a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps' .
All Catch22 services deliver at least one (and often all three) of these outcomes. If you share our values and commitment to transforming people’s lives, please get in touch!
Job Description
The role of Finance Services Manager is an exciting opportunity to proactively manage a lively and communicative Finance Services team. This role will provide valued support to continuously improve financial standards, controls, and procedures across the charity. Reporting directly to the Head of Financial Management, you will utilise your experience, initiative, and strong communicative skills, to drive high-quality and timely financial support and reporting.
Advice and Guidance:
- Advising non-financial managers and staff, particular central cost budget holders.
- Supporting the wider organisation and external organisations with queries, including more complex finance enquiries.
Liaison:
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate: auditors, trustees, bankers, funders and commissioners, external consultants, internal and external contractors.
- Working with management accounts and business partners, to ensure correct cost code postings and VAT rates, and investigating anomalies.
Compliance:
- Ensuring that documentation is correctly recorded and maintained, to comply with audit requirements, working with auditors to supply all requested information at the due time.
- Ensuring that income and expenditure recordings and forecasts are correct, maintaining timely invoicing to adhere to contract details.
- Ensuring timely close of monthly period end, including schedule and reconciliation of purchase and sales ledger control accounts, in line with the management schedule.
Financial Administration:
- Overseeing and supporting all aspects of purchase ledgers, sales ledgers, expense systems and petty cash, undertaking credit control and debtor’s collection.
- Maintaining databases, including a cash flow database and a contract invoice database.
- Managing and processing income received to the main bank account, ensuring correct allocations.
- Administering the pre-paid cards portal, Barclays I Portal banking system, and the BACS payment system.
- Processing all correctly approved BACS payments, checking and authorising weekly payment runs for staff expenses, petty cash, and bursaries.
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Qualifications
We are looking for applicants who can demonstrate the following
qualifications
, skills and experience:
- Financial/accounting qualification, or relevant experience.
- Strong experience in a financial environment: financial system administration, devolved budget setting, sales and purchase ledger, treasury.
- Experience of statutory reporting and designing and developing Excel spreadsheets.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate financial issues to non-finance staff.
- Ability to prioritise workload, working autonomously to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating initiative and a proactive approach to work.
- Excellent attention to detail and initiative in problem solving, with a constructive approach to improving process efficiency.
- Ability to manage, travel, and work flexibly, as a collaborative and active member of a lively, busy team.
Additional Information
Salary: £42,000 per annum
Hours of work: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Flexibility: Hybrid working: two days working from home, 3 days in the office (based in Brasted, Kent)
See the benefits of working for Catch22 here .
Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.
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