Finance Analyst
Who are we:
The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for autistic people. Since 1962, we’ve been transforming lives, changing attitudes and helping to create a society that works for autistic adults and children.
We transform lives by providing support, guidance and practical advice for the 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK, as well as their three million family members and carers.
Visit our website to find out more about who we are and what we do: https://www.autism.org.uk/
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Who we are looking for:
We have 2 opportunities to join our Adult Services Finance Business Partnering team as a Finance Analyst. These 2 newly created roles will report into the Adult Services Finance Managers (North & South).
The Finance Analyst will act as a key point of contact between the Adult Services operational teams and the Finance function. Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting the Finance Manager to analyse the financial performance of their region and communicating this to the operational management team.
- Ensuring accurate and timely accounting at a service level by regularly reviewing the accounts, posting month-end journals and correcting errors in source data and systems.
- Supporting the Finance Manager to produce the annual budgets for the regions, and regular forecasting.
- Producing costing models to support new business, changes to existing business and the annual fee uplift negotiation process.
This is a home-based role and there is no requirement for regular travel, but there will be occasional opportunities to visit the services you work with, in order to familiarise yourself with them. One role will cover the South England and the other role will cover North England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
As the role requires knowledge and understanding of accounting rules and standards, it is desirable that candidates are studying towards an accounting qualification such as AAT/ACA/ACCA/CIMA, or have the desire to work towards study.
This is for a full-time role, 35 hours per week.
Please click here for a full job description.
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What we can offer you:
- Auto-enrolled Pension Scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Excellent induction, training and development programme including training about autism and opportunities to attend our conferences
- Online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits such as cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan & shopping discounts for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple and loads more!
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Life Assurance at 2 x base salary
- A portfolio of fantastic new salary sacrifices benefits and other flexible benefits private health, dental insurance, car salary sacrifice scheme, activity pass, holiday trading, enhanced pension & salary deduct loans (eligibility criteria may apply)
- Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme & counselling programme
- Free access to the Headspace App – a global leader in mindfulness and you can enrol up to three friends or family for free!
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card
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About our application process:
When providing a supporting statement, please refer to the job description and person specification and include any information that shows your suitability for the role.
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
For some roles, successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks which will include additional references and criminal background checks.
Applications for this job are sought from anyone who is suitably qualified and experienced for the role but particularly welcome from those with a diagnosis of autism.
The National Autistic Society is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and adults who use our services and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
