Finance Manager

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“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Edward Everett Hale.

Sheridan Maine are seeking an experienced and proactive Finance Manager to join a charitable team on a fixed-term basis through to November 2025. This role is crucial in maintaining the accuracy of financial data and supporting a busy finance function during a critical period, including year-end processes and a finance system implementation.

Your responsibilities as the Finance Manager will include:

• Ensure accuracy of all financial transactions within the finance system, maintaining compliance with internal authorisation and control procedures.
• Oversee and support a small team of three junior finance staff, including performance management, one-to-one meetings, coaching, and review of work.
• Lead the preparation for year-end audit, including compiling and reviewing schedules and liaising with external auditors.
• Support the delivery of reconciliations and adjustments to ensure accurate month-end and year-end reporting.
• Review and authorise financial transactions with a strong attention to detail.
• Manage the audit timetable in collaboration with the Finance Director and coordinate all necessary documentation and communication with auditors.
• Support VAT return preparation and review.
• Balance hands-on involvement in day-to-day tasks with effective delegation to team members.
• Navigate multiple concurrent deadlines and priorities, including the ongoing finance system implementation.

Required Experience as the Finance Manager:

• Professionally qualified or qualified by experience.
• Proven experience in running audits and preparing audit documentation.
• Solid experience preparing financial accounts and performing month-end checks and reconciliations.
• Experience managing and developing junior team members.
• Familiarity with charity accounting principles and knowledge of charity VAT is also beneficial.

If you’re passionate about this position or are keen to hear more, please click on “apply” as soon as possible.

You are required to be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction.

Due to the high volume of applications, it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within five days, please assume that on this occasion your application has not been successful.

• Seniority level
  
  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type
  
  Temporary

• Job function
  
  Accounting/Auditing, Finance, and Management
• Industries Non-profit Organizations, Higher Education, and Consumer Services

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