We are looking for a new finance colleague to join our Operations Team. We are looking for colleagues who can work with ambiguity, love a challenge and who roll up their sleeves. We’re a small team and at Oak, everyone needs to pitch in.

We are looking for a finance manager to join our team and help us build our culture of freedom, responsibility and continuous improvement. You will manage our finance operations and work with colleagues across the team to ensure their continuous improvement.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Manage Oak's banking, monthly reconciliations, provide the Oak accounts payable and receivable functions.

• Ensure financial information is accurate and available to inform decision making, auditing and annual reporting.

• Play a leading role in the Oak budgeting and forecasting process.

• Produce the monthly management account and board pack.

• Manage the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and working capital.

• Act as first point of contact for internal & external finance queries.

• Manage payroll, relationship with CIPP/HMRC and handle all queries related to PAYE.

• Prepare and manage Oak's employee contracts ensuring they accurately reflect current UK regulations.

• Exhibit and promote the highest level of ethics on conducting and facilitating business transactions.

• Deputise for senior colleagues within the Operations team and take on other general responsibilities as required.

• As a member of the Oak Team, contribute to the wider success and culture of the organisation.

• Work in cross-functional and product orientated squads with colleagues from across the organisation, as required.
  

It is likely you will have the following knowledge, skills, and experience

• CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified or qualified by experience.

• Strong management accounts and core accountancy experience within the charity sector.

• Extensive experience in all aspects of financial control; budgeting process, reporting and audit. 

• Be a strong communicator, coupled with the ability to work with initiative. 

• Can operate effectively throughout business change.

• Excellent attention to detail and highly organised.

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees.

• Strong analytical skills with problem solving capabilities.

• Able to take initiative and escalate issues where necessary.

• Strong computer literacy.

If you have any of the the following experience then it will likely help you settle into your role quickly, but it is not essential:

• Experience of managing public finances.

• Experience of using Business Central.

Next steps

All you need to do is start the process by clicking on the button on the top right.

You’ll answer some questions that are related to your day-to-day job. After the job closes, your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step, which includes completing a task and a formal interview carried out remotely over zoom. Also, we love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process we'll share how well you performed.

We are aiming to hold interviews in the week commencing 30th January 2023 and this is likely to take 1.5hours. We will aim to respond to all submitted applications and let you know if you are successful in moving forward in the application process by the 25th January 2023.

We are experiencing really good responses to our job adverts. This may lead us to closing the role early and so if you are considering applying then please get your application in early to avoid missing out.

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

As part of our committment to equality and diversity, we publish our salary spot point and we do not negotiate on this.