Financial Operations Officer

Hybrid - Split between home and our London Office

£30,000 to £33,000 per annum

About the role:

You’ll be responsible for ensuring that all income received and expenditure paid by Macmillan is fully and correctly recognised within our financial systems. Working closely with colleagues across the organisation and with external partners, you’ll help maintain strong financial controls, resolve queries, and support the smooth running of our finance operations. This is a hands-on, detail-driven role where accuracy matters but it’s also a people-focused role, built on collaboration, problem-solving and shared purpose.

Responsibilities:

• Reconcile financial data between third-party systems, Macmillan bank accounts and the Agresso financial ledger
• Process journals to ensure income and expenditure are recorded in the correct business areas
• Compile month-end balance sheet reconciliations
• Process income received via bank accounts, payment gateways and third parties, ensuring systems are fully updated
• Manage and maintain data across finance systems and team-owned portals
• Process payments to colleagues and third parties, checking documentation and remaining alert to fraud risks
• Provide accurate and timely financial information to support business decision-making
• Support HMRC submissions through data compilation and processing
• Assist with audit activity, including annual and ad-hoc audits
• Act as a subject-matter expert on finance policies and procedures, sharing knowledge with others
• Be flexible, supporting colleagues across Finance Operations as business needs change
• Proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement

About you:

• Experience of complex reconciliations using Excel (or other Microsoft tools), including large data sets
• Confidence creating and posting accounting adjustments into finance systems
• Experience using finance systems and third-party portals
• Knowledge of bank account management, including reconciliations and transaction queries
• A proactive approach to resolving issues independently
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Confidence working to month-end and year-end timetables
• Professional, courteous communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships
• Experience supporting audit processes

Recruitment Process:

The application deadline is 13th Feb, with virtual interviews to take place W/C TBC. To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team at TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.

Diversity and Inclusion:

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regards to a career at Macmillan Cancer Support please email us at TATeam@macmillan.org.uk.