Finance Manager

British Society for Rheumatology is a membership organisation that brings together expertise from across the rheumatology profession. We harness a wide variety of experience and skills to ensure we are supporting our members to the very best of our combined ability. Involving patients and carers at every step, we aim to ensure that physicians and clinicians are equipped to provide high-quality care.

About the role

This role is responsible for managing BSR's day-to-day financial activities, leading on financial planning and reporting, and supporting financial governance. The Finance Manager acts as a trusted business partner to colleagues across the organisation, improving financial understanding and supporting business delivery.

As a values-led and high-performing organisation, our finance team looks for innovations in our financial operations, using data to make decisions and measure impact. The team works collaboratively with colleagues, empowering them to make excellent financial decisions and demonstrate longer-term thinking. This is a great time to join our team, as we're looking to further improve our processes and management level reporting ahead of the next strategy period. We're maturing as an organisation in terms of our financial strategy, and you'll be able to bring your experience and new ideas about how the finance team can best support the organisation to ensure we make a difference for people with rheumatic conditions.

While you will need a strong background in finance to meet the technical requirements of the role, as a learning organisation, we recruit for potential, not perfection. This might be your first management role, or you might not have worked in the charity sector before, but if you are able to do the role, we are happy to provide you with the support and training you need to succeed. This could include supporting you to complete a professional accounting qualification if you don't already have one. Alternatively, you might be an experienced Finance Manager, looking for a new challenge or to join a flexible organisation that aligns with your own values.

Responsibilities

Day-to-day Financial Operations:

• Manage the financial activities of the charity and trading subsidiary (BSR Enterprises)
• Ensure accuracy and efficiency in the accounts
• Process payroll and administer the pension scheme
• Ensure compliance with HMRC, including monitoring VAT threshold, tax, and gift aid, and undertake necessary returns where necessary
• Main contact with and management of the day-to-day operations of the Charity's banking arrangements, in line with authorisation requirements
• Lead the preparation of the annual budget
• Produce the monthly management accounts
• Maintain cashflow forecasting, looking forward at least 12 months

Business Partnering:

• Work with the COO to improve financial understanding across the organisation
• Train, support, and develop budget holders
• Support business delivery and development
• Provide financial reports and analysis to the senior management team and Trustees
• Attend quarterly Finance and Risk Committee meetings
• Complete the required statutory reporting
• Prepare year-end schedules and act as the main point of contact for financial auditors
• Ensure appropriate financial controls are in place
• Identify and mitigate financial risks

Finance Function Development:

• Develop finance policies, processes, and systems to reflect best practice and improve efficiency
• Manage, support, and develop the Finance Officer
• Develop and deliver a work plan for the finance team in line with BSR's strategy and values
• Experience managing financial operations, planning, reconciliation, reporting, and analysis
• Knowledge of financial governance, including accounting regulations and best practices
• Experience of working with and coordinating income and expenditure across multi-project budgets
• Confident using and improving IT systems for a finance department
• Business partnering mindset
• Ability to explain financial information to non-finance colleagues and Trustees
• Commitment to continual professional and personal development

Required Qualifications

• Accounting qualification or part qualification (for example, AAT, ACCA or CIMA) or equivalent knowledge gained through experience
• 30 days Annual Leave & Bank Holiday
• Incentive Scheme
• Income Protection Scheme
• Pensions Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Interest-free Season Ticket Loans
• Ride-to-work Scheme
• Interest-free loan scheme
• Parental and family leave
• Paternity Leave: 6 weeks at full pay.
• Free Period Products
• Free flu Vaccinations
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Enhanced sick pay offer is:
  • Up to two years' service: 4 weeks full pay and 4 weeks half pay
  • After two years' service: 12 weeks full pay and 12 weeks half pay

Conditions of employment

• You need to have the right to work in the UK

Working locations

• Hybrid model, working in the London office and remotely
• We ask you to send us a CV and cover letter. You can attach your CV to our portal and just copy your covering letter into the personal summary box

BSR is committed to encouraging inclusion, equality, and diversity in our workforce. We are actively trying to increase the diversity of our staff team. We try to reduce as many barriers as we can for those with a disability. We know that everyone is an individual, so please always tell us what we can do to support you.

We welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including those from minoritised communities, and those with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.

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