Volunteer Management Accountant - Remote Finance

Use your finance expertise to help Dorset's cooking and food education charity make more impact. As a Volunteer Management Accountant, you'll support tracking and reporting helping us make every pound count and transform lives through food.

The Volunteer Management Accountant will play a vital role in helping Friendly Food Club continue to grow sustainably and maximise its impact across Dorset. As a small but ambitious charity, we need strong financial management to ensure every pound of funding is used effectively to support our mission of improving health and wellbeing through cooking and food education.

Working alongside the CEO and Finance Trustee (themselves a busy Management Accountant) you will provide valuable financial insights and support for the CEO. Your expertise will enable reliable, informed decision-making and together we can ensure we meet our legal and regulatory responsibilities as a registered charity.

The role will also help us build more efficient financial systems and processes, giving staff more time to focus on delivering services to communities. By supporting the upkeep of accurate project costings against budgets, help with annual accounts and quarterly and funder reporting, the volunteer will increase confidence among funders, partners and stakeholders.

As Friendly Food Club continues to secure new grants and expand its programmes, strong financial management becomes increasingly important. This volunteer will help us understand the true cost of our activities, improve project budgeting and ensure we can demonstrate value for money and long-term sustainability.

Ultimately, this role is about much more than numbers. By providing professional financial expertise, the Volunteer Management Accountant will help strengthen the charity's foundations, enabling us to reach more children, families and communities with practical cooking skills, healthier eating habits and greater confidence around food. Their contribution will directly support the charity's ability to grow, remain resilient and create lasting positive change across Dorset.

• Experience in management accounting, finance or a similar role, ideally within the charity sector.
• Excellent knowledge of budgeting and financial reporting.
• Experience using Xero or similar accounting software.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• The ability to work independently and remotely.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to explain financial information clearly.
• Integrity, discretion and respect for confidentiality.

• An AAT qualification or equivalent finance experience.
• Experience working with charities or not-for-profit organisations.
• Knowledge of charity accounting, including SORP and restricted fund accounting.
• An interest in strengthening systems and improving processes.

What will you be doing?

• Using Xero, sense check the quarterly management accounts and financial reports.
• Upload project budgets using tracking categories and prepare reporting as needed.
• Maintain accurate financial records in Xero and reconcile accounts.
• Monitored allocation of unrestricted and restricted funding.
• Preparation and inputting of monthly allocations of overheads to tracking categories.
• Prepare Quarterly financial reports for the Board of Trustees.
• Support the annual accounts and Charity Commission reporting process.
• Help improve financial systems, controls and policies and possible integration of AI tools.
• Assist with finance-related compliance and governance.
• Provide financial advice and support to the CEO and Finance Trustee.