AddressJob Posted: 26 June 2024
- Contract Term: Permanent
- Location: Newport, Isle of Wight
- Contract Type: Full time
- Salary: Up to £45,000.00 per annum
- Industries: Accounting Charity / Voluntary
Job Start Date: TBC
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Overview of Role
The Mountbatten Group is a dynamic organisation and the Financial Accountant is responsible for ensuring its financial processes keep pace with the development of the group and support organisational changes that improve our strategic decision making.
Location: Mountbatten Hampshire and Mountbatten Isle of Wight (split two days / three days across each location each week dependent on business needs)
The Financial Accountant is the technical leader responsible for financial accounting, and day to day transactional finance. The postholder will report directly to the Director of Finance, and provide financial reports and analysis as required along with being responsible for:
Contributing to corporate decision making by providing financial expertise and support across the Mountbatten Group at all levels of the group
Training and coaching finance colleagues and wider teams across Mountbatten on financial processes
Main duties of the job
Key Tasks
Lead financial accounting, day to day transactional finance and proactively supporting the Director of Finance and working to ensure our finances are well governed, transparent, mission-aligned and managed efficiently.
Overview of Role
The Financial Accountant is the technical leader responsible for financial accounting, and day to day transactional finance. The postholder will report directly to the Director of Finance, and provide financial reports and analysis as required along with being responsible for:
Contributing to corporate decision making by providing financial expertise and support across the Mountbatten Group at all levels of the group
Training and coaching finance colleagues and wider teams across Mountbatten on financial processes
The Mountbatten Group is a dynamic organisation and the Financial Accountant is responsible for ensuring it’s financial processes keep pace with the development of the group and support organisational changes that improve our strategic decision making.
Key Tasks
Lead financial accounting, day to day transactional finance and proactively supporting the Director of Finance and working to ensure our finances are well governed, transparent, mission-aligned and managed efficiently.
Financial Management and Systems:
• Lead the financial accounting function ensuring the accurate and timely completion of day to day, month end and annual processes in line with the month end Finance Calendar, to include:
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• Fixed Asset Registers reconciled to finance system
• Restricted Funds are correctly allocated as received/expense incurred
• Process the Payroll journals for employing organisations from information obtained from the outsourced provider
• Ensure VAT returns are completed timely and accurately, reviewing prior to submission to HMRC for all organisations
• Ensure continuous improvement environment for Finance processes, identifying and recommending improvements
• Ensure all Fundraising monies are counted within 2 working days of receipt using Finance Volunteers as required reporting counted amounts to Fundraising by the end of the 2nd working day
• Analysis and reporting as requested by the Director of Finance
• Ensure regular and adhoc payments are made timely following Mountbatten policies to ensure management of working capital and maintenance of stakeholder relationships
• Support projects to source and implement new systems as required, including engagement and project management of non-finance employees
• Ensure finance manual and related policies and procedures are up to date, relevant, and compliant with external statutory standards (e.g., HMRC for expenses), and ensure that employees are adequately trained and supported to ensure internal compliance
• Complete all necessary annual HMRC returns in relation to employee benefits, required under the PAYE Settlement Agreements for both organisations
Financial Training and Coaching
• Take a lead role in rolling out training, communicating, influencing and persuading all staff in the expectations in the use of financial processes, and providing ad hoc training and support as needed to ensure compliant and effective use of systems
Regulatory and Statutory Reporting
• Ensure VAT, corporation and other tax compliance.
• Liaise with auditors for the annual audit
Payroll and Employee Benefits
• Working collaboratively with the People Services Team to support all aspects of payroll and employee benefits administration
• Ensuring prompt, accurate, compliant payments and processes and clear professional communications with the teams, both internally and externally to Mountbatten in relation to payroll and employee benefits
• Responsible for the monthly reconciliation of all salary payments made by the designated payroll provider, ensuring that timely information is shared with People Services in relation to salary sacrifice schemes to enable the payroll provider to reflect this in employees salaries on a monthly basis
Key Relationships
· All internal levels of the organisation in relation to providing Financial Information as required
Other Responsibilities
· Ensure appropriate processes are in place to enable the finance team to comply with its obligations under the Data Protection Act
· Actively promote a working environment that builds trust, that reflects a quality and friendly customer service ethos, empowerment, high performance and continuous improvement.
At Mountbatten making our employees feel valued is as important to us as making sure that our patients are safe. We are looking for people that live our values to help us make a difference to the thousands of patients and their families who come to us for help and support every year.
Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those close to them, have access to expert care of the highest quality, provided by compassionate and professional teams.
We are a charity which provides free care and support to people with any life-limiting illness. We also provide free bereavement and psychological support to patients and their families.
Much of our work takes places in people's own homes across our community.
Mountbatten Hampshire and its sister hospice Mountbatten Isle of Wight are part of the Mountbatten Group.
Our Values
We care about what we do.
We appreciate that people are different, and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local community and to each other
We are experts in our field.
We are professional at all times, aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do
We are innovative and bold.
We respond quickly and creatively to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and financial resources
We respect our community.
We exist for our local population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more together by working in partnership with others
