Finance Manager

Salary: £47,556 - £55,433 (Band E)

Location: Grantown on Spey

Job Type: Permanent contract

Hours: Full time; 35 hours per week

Closing Date: 23:59pm, Sunday 3 May 2026

Interview Date: Friday 5 June 2026

About Us: The Cairngorms National Park is an incredible place to live and work. The UK’s largest national park is a place of sheer abundance, having more high mountain ground than anywhere else in the UK, the largest Caledonian forest, some of Scotland’s purest rivers and finest livestock rearing farmland. It is also home to 25 percent of the UK’s rare and endangered species. It is a truly unique place to work, with our dedicated and passionate Corporate Services team who are committed to providing the best people experience, every day. Furthermore, there is access to some of the most beautiful countryside straight from our Headquarters office door. The Cairngorms National Park Authority is a fantastic place to work and offers great opportunities to grow your career. The Park Authority is listed in the UK’s top 100 best not-for-profit companies to work for. We’re dedicated to both this amazing place and our employees.

The Role: The role provides an excellent opportunity for hands on involvement in the full range of financial processes and reporting carried out within the organisation; it offers both breadth and depth of experience within an organisation that is passionate about delivering for the Cairngorms National Park. You will manage financial support services to all funded projects, and help provide an excellent financial management and accounting service to the Park Authority. This includes the management of key finance systems, such as: creditor payments, debtor management, nominal ledger, budgeting, cash flow management, and the development and maintenance of financial regulations and internal controls. The functions of the role are fulfilled by two post holders who collaborate to provide robust and resilient service to the Park Authority. The full list of responsibilities will typically be divided between both post holders and some of the key responsibilities for this particular post holder are to lead our financial support for delivery of the £42 million Cairngorms 2030 programme, manage the payroll and pensions function which is carried out by the payroll and finance team, and to line manage our finance team. This is an ideal opportunity for anyone wishing to further their career in finance, offering a broad range of work experience together with line management of a small, enthusiastic team.

We are seeking applicants who are either fully qualified (accountant/CCAB professional accountancy qualification), or part qualified with relevant experience. You will also have demonstrable aptitude to deliver payroll and pensions services, and to provide line management of staff. So, if you are keen to be our Finance Manager and you can display the skills and experience listed here, this is the role you’ve been waiting for.

CNPA Benefits: 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days with service, plus Public Holidays, Professional development, Flexible working, Cycle to work scheme, Use of pool cars, Civil service pension scheme – some of the benefits include: member contribution rates among the lowest in the public sector, tax relief on your contributions, generous employer contributions, a secure, inflation-proof pension for life, with no investment uncertainty, the option of tax-free lump sum on retirement, potential access to ill health and injury benefits if you become too ill to work, life assurance cover benefits for loved ones and dependants, options to increase your pension, keeping all your pensions in one place by transferring in a pension you have built up elsewhere, Support from our trusted charity partners.

About You: To be considered as our Finance Manager, you’ll need: Fully qualified accountant / CCAB professional accountancy qualification or part-qualified with relevant experience, Demonstrable aptitude and skills to deliver payroll and pensions administration services, managing all associated tax and other returns, Aptitude and skills to provide line management of a team of staff, Must have excellent numerical skills and substantial, proven experience of using excel spreadsheets and manipulating financial data and figures, Demonstrable capacity to analyse information and to present the results of that analysis in a clear and accessible manner, Must have experience of handling confidential information, and respecting and adhering to that confidentiality, Excellent communication skills – verbal, written and presentational, IT skills – competent user of the standard Microsoft suite of products, Permission to work in the UK.

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