Senior Accountant

Hays Senior Finance South Wales are recruiting for a Senior Accountant on a permanent basis to join a values-driven organisation with a strong social purpose.

If you are a qualified accountant looking to move into a purpose-led organisation or a newly qualified accountant looking for your next career move, this could be for you.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Accountant to play a key role in delivering high-quality financial management, reporting and planning services. This position will support the organisation's strategic objectives by providing robust financial information, leading budgeting processes and ensuring compliance with financial regulations and best practice.
Key Responsibilities

• Financial Management
• Produce monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy, quality and timely delivery.
• Support month-end and quarter-end processes, including accruals, prepayments and financial period close procedures.
• Provide responsive and customer-focused financial reporting to internal stakeholders, committees and boards.
• Lead the annual budgeting and financial planning process, coordinating both capital and revenue budgets.
• Support the development of long-term financial planning models and scenario analysis for senior leadership and governance groups.
• Assist with the preparation of year-end financial accounts.
• Produce financial information required for regulatory and statutory returns.
• Lead procurement activities to ensure value for money and effective use of resources.
• Support the accounts payable function, ensuring accurate and timely supplier payments, policy compliance and strong supplier relationships.
• Leadership & People
• Promote a high-performance culture focused on continuous improvement and efficiency.
• Communicate organisational priorities, plans and objectives to support effective service delivery and achievement of targets.
• Corporate Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Promote health and wellbeing initiatives across the organisation.
• Deliver excellent customer service to all stakeholders.
• Support equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives in all areas of work.
• Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and governance requirements.
• Promote effective communication, continuous improvement and service excellence.
• Undertake any other duties reasonably required by the organisation.

Person Specification

• Membership of a recognised professional accounting body (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ICAEW).
• Experience delivering a finance service, ideally within a not-for-profit or similar environment.
• Significant experience producing management accounts.
• Experience of budget preparation, forecasting and budgetary control.

Our client has a hybrid policy with three days on site and two days from home.

Please apply with an up-to-date CV, and we can get in touch with the next steps.

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