Finance Business Manager
- Recruiter
- The Grand Appeal
- Location
- Bristol (City Centre), Bristol
- Salary
- Up to £30,000 DOE
- Posted
- 10 Aug 2020
- Closes
- 27 Aug 2020
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
We are looking for a driven, experienced and proactive Financial Business Manager, ideally with experience in the charity sector to provide high quality financial controls to the charity.
The post holder will have experience in a financial role and be a conscientious and dedicated professional, with the ability to work alongside and communicate with all teams throughout the organisation.
Responsible for maintaining and managing the day to day financial operations. Providing reporting and financial analysis. You will provide confident and accurate finance solutions across the organisation which will support and help generate additional funds for the charity.
This role will be based at The Grand Appeal HQ in the charity’s newly renovated building on Upper Maudlin Street opposite the Bristol Children’s Hospital, close to the beautiful Bristol Harbourside and the range of shops in Cabot Circus and Quakers Friars.
The Grand Appeal works in partnership with Aardman Animations to support Bristol Children’s Hospital and the region’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. With a multi-million-pound programme of investment in the hospital, from research to family accommodation to patient, family and staff wellbeing.
The Grand Appeal is the charity behind the internationally successful and multi award-winning Gromit Unleashed and Shaun in the City art trails which are now part of the fabric of the city and which have brought millions of visitors to Bristol from all over the world.
Based across 6 sites in Bristol, The Grand Appeal offers a dynamic, supportive and rewarding workplace for its approximately 40 staff. The bedrock of our organisation is its strong team culture in which all staff play an important part. Our staff are talented, creative, ambitious and the Grand Appeal’s most important resource. If this sounds like the right workplace culture for you, you have the required skills and experience, and you are looking for a new challenge, get in touch.
Work for The Grand Appeal and you’ll do more than just a job. Together, we can save lives.
Key tasks and responsibilities
Finance
Processing/Transactional responsibilities
- Process all charity invoices and receipts on SAGE
- Process monthly salary and retail journals on Sage
- Downloading income reports and reconciling with bank
- Process all gift income on SAGE
- Process all income and expenditure on SAGE for trading subsidiary
- Reconcile and process all banking
- Keep accurate digital and paper records of all transactions
Management information/Reporting
- Review all financial plans and budgets regularly to look for cost reduction opportunities
- Maintain and regularly review nominal ledger, aged debtors and aged creditors.
- Manage all HMRC reporting including gift aid claims.
- Produce and review the quarterly VAT returns and submit to HMRC.
- Liaise with the charity’s external auditors in relation to the year-end accounts and any ongoing matters to ensure compliance with regulations
- Compile monthly bank reconciliations and monitor bank accounts
- Produce timely, accurate monthly management accounts and other financial information as required
- Investigate and resolve financial queries
General
- Manage financial processes
- Manage Petty Cash and processes
Other tasks
- Keep abreast of charity law and abide by the Charities Act, Fundraising Regulator, Institute of Fundraising Code of Practice, Gambling Commission, VAT, Gift Aid and General Data Protection Regulation.
- Carry out other tasks and duties as required, to support colleagues across the organisation.
This role profile is not exhaustive and is subject to review in conjunction with the post holder and according to future changes/developments in the service. All job descriptions are non- contractual and give a sense of the broad scope of the role and so include a level of flexibility. Whilst they list some key tasks there will also always be tasks that arise and which can be reasonably expected of the role.
The Grand Appeal is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and vulnerable adults, and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The selected candidate will be appointed subject to a DBS check.
For a full copy of the Job Description and Application Form please visit: https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/careers/