At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage charity finances, prepare reports, and ensure compliance with regulations.
- Company: Join a purpose-driven charity making a real difference in the community.
- Benefits: Flexible part-time hours, competitive pay, and the chance to impact lives.
- Other info: Opportunity to work in a dynamic environment focused on education and community.
- Why this job: Be a key player in strengthening financial controls for a meaningful cause.
- Qualifications: ACCA, ACA, or CIMA qualified, with charity finance experience.
The predicted salary is between 20250 - 24750 £ per year.
Part-Time Charity Accountant / Finance Manager
The role
Your responsibilities will include
- Maintaining the nominal, purchase and sales ledgers in Xero.
- Ensuring financial transactions are accurately recorded and reconciled.
- Preparing monthly management accounts.
- Completing balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, deferred income and accrued income.
- Ensuring compliance with Charities SORP and FRS 102.
- Managing restricted and unrestricted fund accounting.
- Ensuring restricted expenditure complies with funding and donor agreements.
- Working with budget holders to prepare annual budgets and financial reforecasts.
- Producing monthly financial reports and commentary for the senior leadership team and trustees.
- Monitoring cash flow, liquidity and treasury activity.
- Completing bank reconciliations.
- Making payments to suppliers and staff.
- Monitoring aged receivables and supporting the collection of outstanding income.
- Managing the processing of donations, grants and fundraising income.
- Ensuring restricted income is correctly recorded and ringfenced.
- Reviewing and improving internal financial controls and processes.
- Supporting measures to safeguard the charity's assets and reduce the risk of fraud.
- Liaising with external auditors and coordinating the year-end accounts and audit process.
- Taking responsibility for payroll processing and HMRC compliance from April 2027.
About you
To be considered for this position, you should have
- An ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualification, or be qualified by experience with substantial charity finance experience.
- Strong knowledge of Charity SORP and FRS 102.
- Experience managing restricted and unrestricted funds.
- Knowledge of charity tax compliance, including Gift Aid and VAT.
- Experience preparing monthly management accounts, budgets and forecasts.
- Previous experience supporting or coordinating a year-end audit.
- Strong working knowledge of Xero.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to work accurately to deadlines.
- The confidence to explain financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues and trustees.
- A proactive, practical and hands-on approach.
- The ability to work across both transactional finance and higher-level reporting.
Desirable experience
- Preparing financial reports for major grant funders, including the National Lottery and charitable trusts.
- Working within an education, sport or community-focused organisation.
- Aninterest in education, sport or football.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a purpose-led organisation in a key position, helping to strengthen its financial controls, reporting and long-term planning.
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