Job Description

➡️ Do you have experience working in the charity sector, as a senior finance professional?

➡️ Do you have genuine enthusiasm for modern finance topics, such as: technological innovation; automation of tasks; creating a culture of business partnering; continuous improvement in forecasting models, etc?

➡️ Are you an experienced leader and people manager, who excels at managing and mentoring financial professionals?

➡️ Do you thrive working in a changing environment, and enjoy being part of a forward-thinking, and progressive organisation?

The Organisation

The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) is seeking a talented person to join them as Financial Controller to contribute to the achievement of AAT’s business plan objectives and to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation.

FJWilson Talent is acting as the employment agency advisor to the AAT on this appointment.

AAT are the world’s leading professional body for accounting technicians. AAT believes in breaking down barriers and empowering people to unleash their career goals. At the heart of their culture is a passion for wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion. They demonstrate this by providing a healthy workplace and offer hybrid and flexible working.

AAT are a disability confident employer and have reduced their mean gender pay gap from 3.5% in 2021 to 0.2% in 2022, due to an increase in the proportion of women in senior roles within the organisation. AAT additionally provide unconscious bias training, throughout the organisation.

Take a look at AAT’s website to read through their exciting and inspiring 2030 strategy.

The Role

This is a great time to join AAT, and to be a critical part of the evolution of its finance team.

Reporting into the Finance Director, the Financial Controller will contribute to the achievement of AAT’s business plan objectives and to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation by:

• Developing AAT’s financial accounting and controls function to ensure proactive.
• Management of all key statutory and fiduciary responsibilities and maximise the value of AAT assets.
• Managing the year-end finance process for AAT and subsidiary bodies, including delivery of the year-end financial accounts and annual report.
• Managing the annual audit.
• Co-ordinating the delivery of accurate, timely and relevant group month-end accounts.
• Supporting the Finance Business Partnering Manager to produce financial reports and business analysis.
• Supporting AAT’s investment strategy.
• Supporting the implementation of the new Finance system (MS D365).

Key Facts:

Full-time, permanent role

Salary: £75,000-£80,000 per annum + great benefits which include up to 10.15% employer pension contribution, enhanced holiday pay, critical illness etc.

Hybrid:  typically 3 days home-working, blended with 2 days per week in AAT’s office in Canary Wharf, London.

The Successful Candidate will be a Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent), and have experience in:

• Working in a similar role for a charity/professional membership and training organisation.
• People management experience.
• Applying their technical accounting knowledge, including current accounting standards for companies/charities (FRS 102/ Charities SORP).
• Driving, and embedding, process change throughout a finance team.
• Financial management experience, including sales and purchase ledger, credit control, treasury and month end.
• Preparing/reviewing VAT and CT returns, inc. partial exemption.
• Managing the financial audit process and co-ordinating/preparing annual reports and statutory accounts.
• Ideally, has dealt with deferred income and product reporting, and went through a process of implementing a new financial accounting software (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics 365).

How to Apply

• Applications should be in the format of a CV plus a covering letter
• If your application is shortlisted, AAT will be conducting first interviews on Teams in July
• There is no application deadline
• If progressed, the final interview stage will be held in person, with the CEO in AAT's offices in Canary Wharf, London

Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 60,000 - 80,000.

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