Senior Accountant

Here at Human Appeal we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Accountant to join our team based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester.You will join us on a full-time basis on a permanent contract.  In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £45k per annum.

Human Appeal is a faith-based charity that aims to abolish poverty by providing humanitarian aid, sustainable development programs and championing advocacy for our beneficiaries worldwide.

As Senior Accountant, the successful candidate will play an integral role in ensuring that the charity’s suppliers, staff, Field Offices and other stakeholders are paid appropriately and for ensuring that income is properly recognised in the systems by supporting the Finance Officers and UK Head of Finance to deliver and maintain an efficient, effective and accurate accounting system. Ensure accounting system output provides a firm foundation for the production of monthly management information and annual audited Financial Statements.

They will also maintain all associated internal controls, policies and procedures in line with the Finance Manual.  Ensure adherance to Accounting Regulations / Charity SORP and associated legislation via utilisation of in-house Accounts and Management systems in order to safeguard the charity, deliver value for money, save costs, mitigate risk and prevent misappropriation of charity funds.

We are ideally looking to appoint somebody immediately to this role.

Benefits of joining us as our Senior Accountant include:

• 35 days Annual Leave
• Matched pension contribution
• Employee discounts and memberships
• Access to wellbeing hub
• Prayer facilities
• Opportunity to really make a difference!

Key duties and responsibilities of the Senior Accountant include:

• Successfully ensure that the Charity’s Suppliers, Partners, Field Offices & staff are paid appropriately in a timely fashion
• Successfully ensure that the charity’s income from Funders & Donors are accounted for appropriately 
• Successfully prevent misappropriation of funds   
• Successfully safeguard the charity from risk and in accordance with internal policies & procedures and external accounting regulations / Charity SORP / VAT etc.
• Deliver value for money by ensuring commercial judgement is applied to all financial matters
• Ensure the delivery of timely, accurate and relevant Management Information to enable informed decisions to be made by the Charity

What we’re looking for in our Senior Accountant include:

• Educated in a Finance discipline with an Accounting Qualification (ACCA; CIMA; ACA)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working as an Accountant.
• Experience working in the charity sector, with knowledge of Charity SORP, is desirable
• Experience using Financial Accounting Systems (Dynamics 365 Business Central) , Salesforce CRM and MS Office Suite
• Fluent written and spoken English is essential. Additional languages such as Arabic, Urdu, are desirable

This would be an ideal role for an experienced Senior Accountant to make a difference in a rewarding role within the Charity Sector!

We are looking to appoint this role ASAP and will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so for the best chance of success please click ‘apply’ today to become our Senior Accountant – we would love to hear from you.

Disclaimer: Please be aware that due to the anticipated quantity of response, we will only be contacting candidates who are shortlisted to interview stage. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that unfortunately you have been unsuccessful this time.