Finance Manager

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Bristol, Hybrid (min 3 days per week in office)

Salary: £41,462.00 (Pro-rata)

Job Type: Full time, part time considered, 2 year fixed term

Working Hours: 37.5 hours (Part time hours can be accommodated)

Closing date: 2 nd May 2024

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Finance Manager to oversee the day-to-day financial operations of Retrofit West. The Finance Manager will be responsible for ensuring compliance with accounting standards, company law, and charity regulations while providing crucial financial information to support strategic decision-making and efficient resource management.

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the Managing Director and other members of the Operations Team to provide operational support that aligns with the organisation's mission and strategic objectives.

Main Duties

• Be responsible for the day-to-day accounting including invoicing, payroll, VAT returns, payments and banking and credit control.
• Prepare accurate and accessible reports on organisational, team, staff and project financial and project performance indicators to enable informed and timely monitoring and decision-making, principally on a set cycle to feed into a routine schedule of meetings and occasionally to meet an ad hoc need.
• Maintain the organisation's electronic and paper financial records in accordance with appropriate accounting standards and practices and prepare documentation and files required for statutory financial reporting.
• Liaise with RWCICs partners to ensure submissions for collaborative claims are correct and timely to reduce delays.
• Liaise with Retrofit West's auditors, alongside the Director of Finance and Operations, to enable an effective annual audit and associated financial and statutory reporting.
• Provide project managers with information, both financial and performance, and support to plan and manage their projects successfully, delivering budgets accurately and effectively and providing timely financial data to assist in reporting to clients and funders where required.
• Provide expertise on financial costing and monitoring approaches for new project funding proposals, reflecting funder requirements.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of Retrofit West's accounting software (SAGE50 currently, moving to Sage Intacct) and of relevant accounting standards and practices, tax regulations and other relevant statutory changes.

Ideal Candidate

Qualifications:

• ACCA Advanced Diploma or equivalent accountancy qualification.

Knowledge:

• At least 5 years of post-qualification work experience, including at least 2 years proven experience in a financial management role.
• Experience in using SAGE accounting software on a day-to-day basis.
• Experience in preparing routine financial and other management information reports.
• Experience in leading the preparation for an annual audit.
• Working knowledge of accounting standards and practices, VAT and HMRC regulations in England.

Skills & abilities:

• Excellent abilities with SAGE accounting software and an ability to learn new systems.
• Excellent abilities to manipulate data to produce informative reports for use by others.
• Ability to maintain and organise effective electronic and manual filing systems.
• Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivation and initiative, ability to work with limited supervision.
• Ability to work effectively individually and as part of a team.
• Good organisational and time management skills, with experience in working to tight deadlines and budgets.
• Willingness and ability to respond to additional workloads at short notice and manage conflicting priorities.
• Understanding the principles of good financial management information reporting for those not expert in financial management.

Technical skills:

• High level competence with SAGE accounting.
• High level competence with MS Excel and other MS office programmes.

Key Skills:

• Good organisation skills
• Attention to detail

Benefits

• Time off in lieu (TOIL).
• Hybrid working.
• 33 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
• Company sick pay.
• A generous ethical company pension scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Employee requirements

• Some travel to customer households may be required.
• This post may be subject to a DBS check.
• The postholder will undertake domestic retrofit training as part of their induction.
• There will be a six-month probationary review.

Please click on the APPLY button to complete the first stage of the application process by sending your CV and Cover Letter for this role .

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of Financial Controller, Finance Supervisor, Accounts Manager, Accounts Supervisor, Finance Coordinator, Accounts Coordinator, Management Accountant, Group Finance Officer, Accountant, Chartered Accountant, Qualified Accountant, Group Accountant, Finance Officer, Finance Specialist may also be considered for this role.