Finance Manager

About the role

This is a key leadership role for someone who can combine strong financial control with clear reporting, practical process improvement and confident stakeholder support. If you’re an experienced finance professional who wants to make a visible impact in a growing care organisation, this could be the next step you’ve been looking for.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day finance function, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant processes across the organisation.
• Maintain and strengthen financial controls, authorisation processes, reconciliations and audit trails.
• Oversee purchase ledger, supplier payments, supplier reconciliations and finance query resolution.
• Ensure sales invoicing, income allocations, commissioner billing and recharge processes are accurate and well controlled.
• Manage bank reconciliations, prepaid cards, credit cards, cashflow monitoring and treasury activity.
• Oversee payroll processes, HMRC requirements, pension deductions, payroll reconciliations, P11Ds and PAYE settlement activity.
• Lead month-end routines including journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations and supporting schedules within reporting deadlines.
• Support year-end accounts, audits, statutory returns and external information requests with clear evidence and documentation.
• Line manage and support finance colleagues, setting clear expectations and maintaining a responsive finance service.
• Identify and implement improvements that reduce manual work, improve reporting quality and strengthen financial governance.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a finance management, management accounts or senior finance role.
• Strong understanding of payroll, purchase ledger, sales ledger, reconciliations, month-end processes, management accounts and financial controls.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage deadlines, competing priorities and recurring reporting cycles.
• Clear and professional communication skills, with the confidence to challenge appropriately and support managers constructively.
• A confidential, trustworthy and values-led approach to handling financial, commercial and personal information.
• A solution-focused mindset, with the ability to improve systems, processes and ways of working as the organisation grows.

Qualifications

• Desirable: Experience within health, social care, housing, not-for-profit or another multi-site organisation.
• Desirable: Experience of care-sector funding, commissioner invoicing, payroll processes or regulated service environments.
• Desirable: AAT Level 4, part-qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA, or equivalent finance experience.
• Desirable: Evidence of continued professional development in finance systems, Excel, reporting or accounting processes.

Skills

• Confident Excel skills and experience using finance systems, reporting tools and structured spreadsheets.

Benefits

• MPSW

Pay

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Schedule

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