About The Role
Are you a Qualified Accountant looking to use your skills and accounting knowledge to help address the biggest health, care and research challenges in the UK today? We are looking for a Financial Accountant to join our busy Finance & Assurance directorate team as we move forward in our transformation journey and set ourselves up for realising our vision to be trusted partners, credible experts and a single point of financial truth to the Society. In this role, you will use your deep, professional expertise to provide an authoritative basis for our financial decisions. Working in partnership with colleagues within Finance & Assurance and in partner directorates across the Society, you will ensure a robust control environment and embrace the responsibility that comes with compliance with regulations and other statutory obligations. Critically, you will play a leading role in improving our processes and quality, driving change through data-driven evidence and strong relationships.
This is a homeworking role, but you will be required to travel to attend some meetings and team-days, so you must reside in the UK, have the correct right to work documents to work in the UK and be comfortable/willing to travel to our flagship offices.
About you
You will have:
* Significant experience of preparing VAT returns including application of partial exemption rules, ideally in the charity sector
* An appropriate accountancy qualification (or equivalent experience and knowledge)
* Extensive experience as a Financial Accountant in a large or complex organisation
* Strong working knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations.
* Significant experience of recruiting, building and developing high-performing teams
* Superb communication and influencing skills to engage with colleagues in financial roles and beyond.
* A high level of comfort in working across lateral and hierarchical boundaries.
* Experience and knowledge of Unit4 ERPx or equivalent cloud-based system
* A strong record of leading evidence-led continuous improvement
What you’ll focus on
* Delivering first-class partnership to the Society to build – with business partners, analysist and planners – a single point of authoritative financial truth.
* Role-modelling our values, embracing a high support, high challenge culture.
* Driving continuous improvement in our levels of partnership, efficiency and the performance of the financial accounting team.
* Preparing and reviewing complex or technical accounting adjustments
* Ensuring first class record keeping in line with regulations and law.
* Your own learning and development, and that of others you’re responsible for.
* Preparing accurate and compliant VAT returns, including managing partial exemption calculations.
* Preparing and reviewing accurate and timely audit deliverables.
* Developing effective partnership-based relationships with other teams.
* Leading financial accounting activities to support business operations.
About Alzheimer’s Society
Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer. One in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime. We are the UK’s leading dementia charity and tackle all aspects of dementia by giving help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We fund vital support, research and campaigning to make dementia a priority. Our values guide our challenges and opportunities, and reflect what we stand for.
Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We ensure the voices around our table reflect the communities we serve. We encourage applicants who have a disability, impairment or health condition or who identify as Black, Asian or from other minority ethnic backgrounds, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer’s Society. We want everyone we work with to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer’s Society. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, our internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience networks promote inclusion and belonging and help us become an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.
Our hiring process: We aim to be inclusive in recruitment and ask you to provide information about your experience and any adjustments you may need. If you need application support, contact Alzheimer’s Society Talent Acquisition Team via email. To ensure fairness, all applications are anonymised up to an interview confirmation. We may close applications early if there is high volume. We may conduct a DBS check for relevant roles. We are committed to safer recruitment.
Giving back to you: Our employees receive a range of benefits, recognition and options for working flexibly, plus learning programmes to support development and growth. You can also visit our Working for Us pages for more information about being an employee at the Society.
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