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Finance Manager / Financial Accountant (Charity)

Closing date:
Salary: £36,000 - £38,000 Full time (35 hrs), part time considered at 0.8FTE
Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time
Location:
Robinswood Hill Country Park, Reservoir Road, Gloucester, GL46SX
Join Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) and use your finance skills to support nature’s recovery across Gloucestershire. We’re looking for an experienced Finance Manager / Financial Accountant to lead the day-to-day running of our finance function. This is a hands-on role overseeing transactional finance and payroll, strengthening financial controls, and improving board reporting — with line management responsibility for two Finance Officers.

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

  • Overseeing day-to-day finance operations (AP/AR, credit control, banking, journals, payment runs, month-end routines)
  • Owning and maintaining cashflow forecasts (weekly/monthly), highlighting risks and actions early
  • Overseeing payroll end-to-end, including reconciliations, pensions, HMRC compliance and year-end tasks
  • Leading monthly close and key balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring an audit-ready trail
  • Maintaining and improving board reporting packs with strong version control and reconciliation to source data
  • Supporting good restricted/unrestricted fund controls and applying charity finance compliance in routine reporting
  • Working confidently with finance systems and improving processes, templates and documentation (including Xledger and Access CRM)
  • Line-managing and coaching two Finance Officers, ensuring deadlines and quality standards are consistently met

What we’re looking for

Essential:

  • Significant hands-on finance experience with charity experience essential
  • Strong experience in cashflow forecasting
  • Experience building/improving board reporting packs and senior-level reporting
  • Payroll oversight experience (processing, pensions, HMRC, reconciliations)
  • Excellent attention to detail, deadline management, and people skills
  • Confidence picking up and working with less familiar systems (e.g., Xledger, Access CRM)
  • Strong Excel skills
  • Qualified-by-experience welcome (degree not required)

Desirable:

  • Payroll qualification (e.g., CIPP Foundation/Practitioner or equivalent)
  • VAT experience, ideally including Partial Exemption
  • Experience in a multi-entity environment (e.g., charity + trading subsidiary)
  • AAT/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA part-qualified or qualified

Contract and benefits

  • Full-time or part-time (28 hours) considered
  • 25 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time)
  • 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 hr@gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk

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