Accounting Services Supervisor

Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)

About the role

Here at Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we are seeking an Accounting Services Supervisor to be responsible for all month-end, quarterly and year-end processes and ensuring they are completed in a timely manner with accurate transactions on general ledger and cash book. In this role, you will work collaboratively and proactively with the Procure to Pay Team, the JRHT and JRF Embedded Finance Teams, Group Central Services, and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, while championing the continuous improvement of procedures and processes. You will take responsibility for approving and processing HSBC priority payments in line with the Bank Mandate, providing Civica Financials administration cover to the Finance Systems Owner, and ensuring all reconciliations are completed, recorded, checked, and appropriately signed off across the cash book, Cx/CF, Creditors Ledger and Debtors Ledger. You will play a key role in meeting month-end and year-end closedown deadlines, authorising non-supplier creditors and general ledger journals, and investigating and resolving queries and anomalies within Accounting Services. The role also involves providing cover for the Senior Accounting Services Analyst on rent and tenancy charge changes and liaising with External Auditors on routine transactional audit requests, providing a bridge between the audit team and colleagues and coordinating the flow of audit requests in the process.

About you

We are seeking a candidate with strong, demonstrable experience of transactional processes within a Finance Department, supported by an AAT qualification, part-qualified CCAB status, or equivalent experience. You will bring proven experience in managing reconciliations, overseeing end-to-end processes, and ensuring all activity is monitored, recorded and checked in line with audit requirements. The successful applicant will be a confident and capable user of intermediate Excel and Microsoft Office applications, with hands-on experience of using financial systems such as Sage, Civica or similar accounting packages. A sound understanding of accounting principles and budget management is essential, particularly in relation to financial coding and user structures across the Group. You will have excellent accuracy and numeracy skills, strong organisational and time-management abilities, and the capacity to oversee a small team to deliver a varied workload to tight and precise deadlines. Exceptional communication skills and a positive, proactive approach to self-development and learning are also key to this role.

How to apply

If you share our passion and this role sounds like you, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you. Please submit your CV and supporting information via our online application platform. The closing date for applications is Wednesday 7th January 2026. Interviews will take place TBC. We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.

Additional Information

Applications are welcome from all, regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socioeconomic background. We positively encourage applications from people from marginalised backgrounds, including but not limited to those with experience of living in poverty. We are committed to being an anti-racist organisation and operate an anonymised recruitment process so that bias is eliminated from the shortlisting process. In support of our approach to flexible working, we are happy to receive applications from those seeking full-time employment, as well as those who may want to share the role on a part-time basis. When making your application, please state whether you want to be considered for either full or part-time work and, if part-time, the number of hours per week you would be looking for. At JRF we’re at our best when we’re continually building on trust, showing we care and making a difference – and hope others will do the same. So, for those roles which allow it, we’re developing a more blended approach to how and where you work. This means you can expect to work flexibly between the office and home (with an expectation of two days a week in your home office). We encourage you to read our EVP, which is located here: https://jrf-jrht-brand.frontify.com/share/7C1kD2FusMtEVnje2ijA. We are a Disability Confident Employer. This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We shall also offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have any additional needs and need reasonable adjustments to be made to the interview process, please let us know.