Finance Manager Job Description
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial governance, compliance, and audit management. They will be responsible for building a best-practice finance function with clear policies, controls, and accountability.
Key responsibilities include leading all statutory and management reporting, ensuring full audit compliance, overseeing internal controls, risk frameworks, and financial governance structures, managing regulatory reporting, driving accurate budgeting, forecasting, and cost control in partnership with leadership, supporting the CEO with financial modelling and long-term planning, and managing a finance officer to help build a performance-driven team culture.
* Financial Governance:
* Compliance Management:
* Audit Management:
* Internal Controls:
* Regulatory Reporting:
* Budgeting and Forecasting:
Required skills and qualifications include extensive experience in financial governance, compliance, and audit management, demonstrated ability to implement internal controls and financial risk frameworks, deep knowledge of reporting obligations for government-funded or regulated entities, strong statutory and management accounting capability, working knowledge of Power BI, CA or CPA qualification (or in final stages), and strong communication skills and comfort working directly with executive leadership.
* Financial Governance:
* Statutory Accounting:
* Management Accounting:
* Power BI:
* CA/CPA Qualification:
Benefits of this role include working directly with a values-driven, visionary CEO, leading a finance function that sets the tone for governance and trust, playing a critical role in funding accountability and organisational credibility, helping shape policy, process, and systems to enable future growth, and flexible work arrangements including work from home Wednesdays.