Finance Manager

Job title: Finance Manager

Reporting to: Head of Finance

Team: Finance

Contract: Full time, permament

Location: Hybrid London and remote working

**Salary**: £41,000 - £45,000 - Grade 4

The Lord’s Taverners exist to positively impact the lives of young people facing the challenges of inequality.
We work across the UK and beyond to provide inclusive and impactful cricket programmes, empowering young people with disabilities and from disadvantaged communities to develop the knowledge, skills, capabilities and confidence required to overcome the challengesof inequality, raise their aspirations and reach their potential.

We are looking for a Finance Manager to join a small established high performing team due to the internal promotion of the existing Finance Manager to Head of Finance.

The Finance Manager should be;
- Flexible in their approach to work being agile in their practice
- Willing to go back to basics across process and control when the team require support
- Capable of line managing an able team, empowering colleagues to grow and adapt within their own work areas
- Able to provide cross organisational support to colleagues with differing levels of finance management capability
- Open and approachable demonstrating the charities values and building a strong and evolving culture
- Assertive and able to follow and implement effective and efficient processes and procedures and support the team with those.

**Main Areas of Responsibility**

Reporting
- Lead month end processing through a collaborative approach producing management accounts
- Establish a Business Partnering approach, encouraging budget holders to be accountable for their budgets working in partnership with the finance team to ensure finance is at the heart of the decision-making process
- Take ownership of budgeting, forecasting and reporting on a quarterly basis
- Assist the Head of Finance with the statutory accounts and annual audit.

Analysing
- Use strong analytical thinking and techniques to review accounts to identify areas of improvement or concern and identify and mitigate risks

Performance
- Identify areas of improvement and deliver continuous enhancements to current processes and controls
- Deliver an excellent accounting and financial control function
- Support the training of colleagues to ensure that financial skills are a key competency of those who manage budgets
- Create high quality process documentation to support the adoption and understanding of best practice delivery across the financial eco system
- Challenge under-performance and provide solutions for teams where financial management does not meet the levels required for high quality delivery
- Provide individual and collective support to both the finance team and wider organisation to increase overall capability in all areas of financial management systems and processes

Skills and Experience
- AAT or CIMA is desirable but will accept qualified by experience.
- Knowledge of SORP is desirable.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills both written and verbal
- Highly motivated and pro-active who has demonstrable ability to work to tight deadlines
- Strong customer focus and excellent organisational skills
- Engaging relationship builder with excellent interpersonal skills
- Team player and able to lead by example
- Ability to support the transition from existing and long-standing systems and processes to modernised practices with integrated systems
- Attention to detail and in-depth understanding of core accounting principles and regulatory requirements
- Ability to maintain a high level of discretion and confidentiality
- A commitment to ongoing personal and professional development
- Someone who is keen to always be learning, and curious to explore new ideas.

In return, we are offering:

- Generous holiday allowance
- Pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Private healthcare
- Season ticket loan
- Life assurance
- Death in service cover
- 25 days annual leave + 5 concession days between Christmas and New Year when the office is closed + Bank Holidays

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