Financial Controller

Financial Controller

£65,000 - £70,000 + benefits

Permanent

35 hours per week (happy to talk flexible working)

Wimbledon (hybrid working)

We’re the CIPD — the professional body for HR and people development. We are the voice of a worldwide community of more than 160,000 members committed to championing better work and working lives. We’ve been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development for more than 100 years, helping members build their professional expertise and organisations build their HR and leadership capability.

There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us. We offer a friendly and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday, £125 personal development allowance and access to an award winning pension scheme.

The Role

As Financial Controller, you will provide strategic leadership to the implementation and impact of finance operations across the business. You will lead, support, and develop the team responsible for paying the organisation’s suppliers, collecting debts from customers, collecting membership fees and managing cash needs. In addition, you will carry out accurate organisational level finance functions in a timely manner such as meeting VAT and other compliance requirements, exercising internal financial controls including reconciliations and producing statutory accounts.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Being fully accountable for providing a strategic view on operational financial processes, including effective delivery of all Accounts Payable services, collection of membership fees, collection of other receivables and payment of the monthly payroll.
• Developing high levels of performance amongst the team and encourage development to retain talent and support internal career development.
• Being accountable for the cash management, day to day treasury requirements and banking relationship management, including maintaining a minimum level of liquid cash whilst ensuring that the organisation has adequate funds available, and deciding on short term deposits.
• Being the key contact for liaison with the Director of Legal & Governance and monitoring compliance across the organisation with financial policies.
• Supporting investment fund accounting and administration and ensuring all due diligence requirements are met.
• Being accountable for the application of financial internal controls including monthly completion of reconciliations, journal reviews and effective segregation of duties.
• Ensuring accurate application of the VAT partial exemption model, correct calculation of VAT liabilities, preparation of quarterly VAT returns and ensuring other compliance requirements are met.
• As part of the Business Recovery Team ensuring all critical finance functions have been identified and adequate measures are in place to allow the resumption of finance operations in the event of a major incident.
• Preparation of the annual statutory accounts.
• Being the key contact for liaison with the group auditors and the Finance team to plan and oversee the annual external audit.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Experience of AP and AR
• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Knowledge of VAT
• Proven experience of statutory account preparation
• Experience of running an annual audit
• Demonstratable experience of managing and developing a team through a period of significant change
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build strong, trusted relationships within Finance and the broader business
• Strong communications skills and report writing abilities
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of IT and accounting systems.
• Intermediate/Advanced Microsoft Excel skills are essential.

Please note, this advert is due to close on Thursday 30 September 2021.

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Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible