Finance Manager

Responsibilities

• Oversee and improve day-to-day finance processes (AP/AR, credit control, banking, journals, month-end routines).
• Ensure transactions are posted accurately with robust coding, narrative, and audit trail.
• Maintain effective workflow control (finance inbox, task prioritisation, approvals tracking).
• Oversee payment runs and cash controls, ensuring strong separation of duties and compliance with delegated authority.
• Maintain and monitor key finance control accounts, ensuring timely investigation and resolution of variances.
• Own and maintain the cashflow forecast (weekly/monthly), ensuring it is accurate, timely, and clearly presented.
• Track restricted vs unrestricted cash implications and highlight emerging risks (timing, grant drawdowns, payroll peaks).
• Oversee payroll end-to-end (monthly processing, approvals, reconciliations, pension submissions, HMRC compliance, and year-end tasks).
• Maintain strong payroll controls, confidentiality, and clear documented payroll checklists/timetables.
• Own the month-end close timetable for day-to-day areas and ensure deadlines are met.
• Produce timely management information for the Head of Finance.
• Maintain an audit-ready finance function with clear working papers, reconciliations, and supporting evidence.
• Maintain and improve board-level reporting packs (structure, consistency, narrative, and supporting analysis.
• Apply charity accounting requirements in day-to-day processing and reporting.
• Support VAT return preparation and maintain VAT schedules.

• Significant hands-on finance experience, ideally within a charity/not-for-profit environment (charity experience essential).
• Strong cashflow forecasting experience (building and maintaining forecasts, managing assumptions, communicating risks).
• Proven experience building and/or improving board reporting packs and senior-level finance reporting.
• Payroll oversight experience (processing, pensions, HMRC compliance, reconciliations).
• Excellent attention to detail with a consistent track record of meeting deadlines and delivering high-quality work.
• Strong people skills and confidence managing others (or clear evidence of coaching/leading in a finance setting).
• Strong systems confidence — able to pick up and work effectively with less familiar software (e.g., Xledger, Access CRM).
• Excellent Excel skills and ability to present financial information clearly.
• Payroll qualification (e.g., CIPP Foundation / Practitioner, or equivalent).
• VAT experience, ideally including Partial Exemption (or willingness to learn quickly).
• Experience in multi-entity environments (e.g., charity + multiple trading subsidiary).
• Part-qualified or qualified (AAT/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA).
• Experience supporting statutory audit and/or grant audits with strong working paper discipline.

• Plan, organize and manage workload to ensure duties/processes are completed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Be familiar with Trust Policies and Procedures.
• Present a friendly, professional, competent and tidy personal appearance.

• Required:
  
  Qualified-by-experience welcomed; a degree is not required.

• Managing Day to day finance operations
• Delivering a structured month-end close
• Experience improving or tightening financial controls
• Experience working with a trading subsidiary and intercompany transactions/recharges
• Experience implementing process change
• Experience overseeing or supporting payroll
• Experience in a charity / not-for-profit

• Charity Finance experience
• Practical Payroll experience
• Advance Excel skills
• Charity SORP / Exposure to FRS
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• VAT Knowledge
• Cashflow forecasting

• Enthusiasm, motivation and dedication
• Personable and approachable
• Ability to engage confidently and professionally with a diverse array of stakeholders
• Empathetic to a broad range of individuals’ needs
• High level of focus and attention to detail
• Proactive, highly flexible and comfortable with change
• Personal commitment to nature conservation and sustainable living

Apply please send your CV and covering letter to Hr@glo