Senior Financial Accountant

Senior Financial Accountant

£400 - £450 per day

Charity

6 months

My charity client are seeking to recruit a Senior Financial Accountant for the next 6 months. This role is 100& remote.

Reporting in to the Head of Finance, you will be accountable for the Finance Supervisor and Financial Accountant. Within the role, you will be expected to ensure all financial accounting is undertaken in an effective and efficient manner and appropriate financial controls exist as well as maintaining and developing the financial systems to meet the growing demands of the charity.

Responsibilities (but not limited to):

• To oversee financial processing for the whole organisation by maintaining policies and procedures and by monitoring activity
• To provide a high level of support to all users of financial systems including employees and volunteers
• To maintain and develop financial IT systems including the core accounting system, on-line accounting modules and on-line banking systems
• To manage the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets and Neutering Voucher systems

About you:

• Experience in working in the charity retail sector
• Experience of setting and managing income and expenditure targets
• Significant experience of working with volunteers
• Experience of managing employees, including recruitment, retention, performance management and dealing with disciplinary situations
• Excellent people management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation with employees, volunteers and members of the public through excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Ability to build & maintain positive working relationships with a variety of people, both paid & voluntary
• Knowledge of Health & Safety issues in the retail environment
• Knowledge of the issues relating to recruiting and retaining volunteers
• Use of Microsoft based IT programmes including Word, Excel, Outlook and the internet

If this role sounds suited to you, please apply now.