Description
As Finance Manager, you will lead a small team to deliver accurate and timely financial management, ensuring strong financial control and accountability to our funders while supporting the organisation to maximise the positive impact of every pound received by St Petrocs.
With an annual turnover of approximately £5 million, you will oversee the organisation’s key financial processes, including the preparation of monthly management accounts and year-end statutory accounts. You will ensure robust financial systems, reporting, and controls are in place, using a range of software systems, including Xero, to support effective financial management across the organisation. You will also play a key role in providing financial insight to support decision-making and the effective delivery of our services.
Interviews will take place on Thursday 2nd April 2026. However, suitable candidates may be invited to interview before the closing date, and the advert may be closed early if a successful appointment is made – so interested jobseekers are encouraged to apply without delay.
Many of our staff work flexibly. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
What you'll be doing.
1. Oversee day to day operations of the Finance team, ensuring monthly tasks are completed effectively and deadlines are adhered to.
2. Lead the preparation and review of key financial processes, including reconciliations, monthly accounts, forecasts, and cashflow reporting.
3. Monitor grant funding and compliance, providing guidance across teams and ensuring accurate reporting.
4. Maintain and enhance financial systems, procedures, and policies to ensure efficiency and accuracy.
5. Produce clear and accurate financial data and reports for senior departmental leads and management.
6. Provide leadership, support, and performance management for Finance team members, including appraisals, ongoing development, and oversight of attendance and approval of timesheets, absence requests, and expenses.
7. Support Finance apprenticeships, liaising with tutors, overseeing progress reviews, and ensuring all off the job training requirements are met.
8. When necessary, support the recruitment, induction, and training of new Finance staff.
9. Collaborate effectively with teams across the organisation, promoting cost awareness and savings.
10. Attend events as a positive ambassador for St Petrocs, promoting and raising awareness of its services and inspiring existing and potential supporters.
11. Undertake any other reasonable duties required.
Who we're looking for.
You’ll share our core values: Honesty, Integrity, Equality & DignityYou will demonstrate excellent attention to detail and a strong understanding of key financial processes, with the ability to oversee and ensure accuracy across complex areas of work. With strong organisational and leadership skills, you will be able to manage competing priorities, coordinate multiple workstreams, and respond confidently to changing demands while supporting others to deliver effectively.
Importantly, we’re looking for someone who passionately believes in our mission of ending homelessness. Homelessness is not an inevitability. It can be solved, and it can be prevented.
In addition to the criteria outlined below, this post is subject to successful completion of a Basic disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Essential Criteria
* Commitment to our services and the people we serve
* Strong organisational and leadership skills
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
* Excellent attention to detail, ability to produce accurate work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
* Minimum AAT Level 4 qualification with relevant post-qualification experience.
What it's like working with us.
We know that our staff are at their best when they feel supported, happy, and healthy – at work and at home. To that end, we’re pleased to offer the following employee benefits:
Family
* 33 days annual leave a year, including bank holidays
* Enhanced maternity, partner, shared parental, and adoption pay
* Paid time off for neonatal care
* Paid time off for IVF treatment
Financial
* Competitive pension scheme
* Long-service awards
* Non-contributory life insurance (up to 3 x basic salary)
* Paid professional subscriptions (where relevant to role)
Wellbeing
* Enhanced sick pay scheme
* Employee assistance programme (EAP) including access to counselling services
* Free eye tests and free vaccinations
We're working to end homelessness in Cornwall, because every person has a right to a safe and secure home.
St Petrocs was established in 1986 as a direct response to people experiencing homelessness in Truro. Over the years, our services have grown - shaped by the needs of the people we support.
Today, over 60 staff and 300 volunteers work together tirelessly to ensure we can provide the best quality of service possible to those people who find themselves vulnerably housed or pushed into homelessness.
We are an independent, charitable organisation that provides people in need with somewhere and someone to turn to.