Finance Manager – Temporary – based in Luton, LU1
Job Purpose:
This temporary 2–3 month role is designed to provide essential support to the Finance and Administration Manager and the wider Senior Management Team of a not-for-profit charity organisation. The postholder will be responsible for overseeing and maintaining effective financial systems and processes, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, and supporting the organisation's overall financial and administrative operations. Acting as a key point of coordination for finance-related tasks, the role will contribute to the implementation of quality systems, uphold financial controls, and assist with budget monitoring, forecasting, and audit preparation. This position is critical in ensuring operational continuity and supporting staff, volunteers, and the board during a period of organisational transition or change.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the Financial Controls procedures, ensuring that policy and expectations are clear, and that staff are aware of their responsibilities.
- Maintain the financial records for all income and expenditure streams, ensuring the timely and accurate production of month end accounts, reconciliations and reporting from SAGE.
- Ensure good coordination of the various aspects of managing rental income, working closely with relevant managers, from applications for Housing Benefit to reporting on bad debts.
- Monitor the recording of grant income and expenditure, ensuring transactions are appropriately recorded and all expenditure is within the terms of the grant. Assist with reporting requirements to funders.
- Work with the Finance and Administration Manager and CEO to ensure clear financial reporting that enables the board and the managers to understand the financial position of the organisation, both at the current time, and with cash flow projections for the future.
- Manage expenditure through ensuring clear spending protocols aligned to agreed budgets.
- Work with the Finance and Administration Manager and CEO to set annual budgets, monitoring performance against budgets and reforecasting make budget recommendations.
- Review contracts to ensure best value for money.
- Ensure accounts are ready for audit as required each year.
- Oversee the Purchasing Order/Invoicing process and payment to suppliers
- Deposit cheques and cash.
- Lead on finance related queries.
Person Specification:
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of quality systems and has experience supporting their implementation and ongoing monitoring to improve organisational effectiveness.
- Maintains high professional standards and consistently operates within clear ethical and confidentiality boundaries.
- Flexible and adaptable, with a willingness to undertake a range of duties as required to support the smooth and effective functioning of the organisation.
- Able to manage changing priorities and responsibilities in a dynamic environment, particularly during periods of organisational transition or development.
Experience:
- SAGE experience is essential.
- Previous experience working in a not-for-profit or charity organisation is advantageous.
Hours of Work:
- Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week) (* Temp contract paid hourly, pay rates includes statuary holiday pay)
Work Location:
- In person
If you are interested, please get in touch ASAP or if this is not the exact role you are searching for, please do not hesitate to contact me directly to discuss other opportunities.
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