If you enjoy bringing order, clarity and momentum to finance operations — and want your work to directly support conservation impact — we’d love to hear from you.
What you’ll be doing
1. Overseeing day-to-day finance operations (AP/AR, credit control, banking, journals, payment runs, month-end routines)
2. Owning and maintaining cashflow forecasts (weekly/monthly), highlighting risks and actions early
3. Overseeing payroll end-to-end, including reconciliations, pensions, HMRC compliance and year-end tasks
4. Leading monthly close and key balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring an audit-ready trail
5. Maintaining and improving board reporting packs with strong version control and reconciliation to source data
6. Supporting good restricted/unrestricted fund controls and applying charity finance compliance in routine reporting
7. Working confidently with finance systems and improving processes, templates and documentation (including Xledger and Access CRM)
8. Line-managing and coaching two Finance Officers, ensuring deadlines and quality standards are consistently met
What we’re looking for
Essential:
9. Significant hands-on finance experience with charity experience essential
10. Strong experience in cashflow forecasting
11. Experience building/improving board reporting packs and senior-level reporting
12. Payroll oversight experience (processing, pensions, HMRC, reconciliations)
13. Excellent attention to detail, deadline management, and people skills
14. Confidence picking up and working with less familiar systems (e.g., Xledger, Access CRM)
15. Strong Excel skills
16. Qualified-by-experience welcome (degree not required)
Desirable:
17. Payroll qualification (e.g., CIPP Foundation/Practitioner or equivalent)
18. VAT experience, ideally including Partial Exemption
19. Experience in a multi-entity environment (e.g., charity + trading subsidiary)
20. AAT/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA part-qualified or qualified
Contract and benefits
21. Full-time or part-time (28 hours) considered
22. 25 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time)
23. We are closed between Christmas and New Year, giving additional time off during this period
If you’re motivated by strong processes, great teamwork, and purpose-led work, we’d love to hear from you.
Closing date for applications is 13th March, interview w/c 23rd March.
Please send your CV and cover letter to