Finance Manager
| Posting date: | 09 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £43,481.0 to £47,329.0 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43,481 - £47,329 per annum dependent on experience |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 July 2025 |
| Location: | EC2A 3NH |
| Company: | National Autistic Society |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REF-ZM-O8LURHZ |
Summary
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.
Within our Adult Services, we support people to understand their diagnosis and how this may impact on their life and the lives of those around them. Our residential services provide accommodation and support for autistic adults 52 weeks a year, 24 hours a day in urban and rural settings. We also provide supported living services for autistic adults who need extra help to live in their own homes or within our accommodation.
We have developed our education offer into a diverse network of independent schools and programmes which are relied upon by hundreds of people across the UK. We provide a wide range of services to support autistic children and young people. We improve and enhance education, care and experiences to help autistic children and young people fulfil their potential.
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 an opportunity to join our Adult Services Finance Business Partnering team as a Finance Manager. This newly created role will report into the Adult Services Finance Business Partner and will line manage one Finance Analyst.
The Finance Manager will act as a key point of contact between the Adult Services operational teams and the Finance function. Key responsibilities include:
• Understanding and analysing the financial performance of their regions and communicating this to the operational management team, challenging variances to budget where appropriate.
• 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.
• Producing 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 role will primarily cover the London, South East and South West regions, which encompasses approximately 30 services with circa £22,000,000 annual revenue. 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.
As the role requires knowledge and understanding of accounting rules and standards, it is desirable that candidates hold an accounting qualification such as AAT, part-qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA, or other equivalent qualification. However, consideration will also be given to candidates who are qualified by experience in previous finance roles.
To view the full job description please click here
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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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Where you will be working:
Remote / Homebased
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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.
For more information about this job please contact- Chris Russell - Business Finance Partner - chris.russell@nas.org.uk
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
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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. INDNPCS
** NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE
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