Senior Finance Manager

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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