Description
The Finance Manager is responsible for overseeing Rambert’s financial health, ensuring effective financial planning, management and consolidated organisational reporting. This role focuses on strategic financial oversight, budgeting and financial analysis, supporting our artistic and organisation.
Key Accountabilities
- Financial Planning and Analysis: Develop and manage Rambert's annual budget in collaboration with department heads. Provide financial analysis and forecasting to support strategic decision-making. Monitor financial performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying variances and recommending corrective actions.
- Financial Reporting: Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements and reports for our Exec Team, Finance Committee and auditors. Management of consolidation and inter-company transactions. Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards. Ensuring ongoing accuracy and completeness of our finance data recorded in our system. Support the preparation of financial reports for grant applications and funding bodies.
- Cash Flow Management: Manage our cash flow to ensure sufficient liquidity for operations. Closely monitor our income streams and bank accounts. Oversee investment strategies and manage relationships with our relevant financial institutions. Support the Finance Business Partner in managing the purchase ledger and associated payment runs and BACs payments.
- Internal Controls: Operate necessary internal controls to safeguard our assets and ensure the accuracy of our management information and reporting (such as reconciliations and budget versus actual analysis).
- Deputise the Head of Finance: Provide financial guidance and support to department heads. Support the Head of Finance as a financial advisor to the Executive team, providing insights, challenges and recommendations to help us achieve our goals.
Essential
- Qualified chartered accountant and/or a degree in finance, accounting or a business administration related field. Part qualified or qualified by experience will be considered.
- Proven experience in financial management.
- Experience of preparing robust financial reports
- Strong knowledge of financial principles, practices and regulations.
- Confident use of Excel (XLOOKUP, SUMIF, Pivot Tables).
- Organised with an ability to effectively prioritise, support others and ensure deadlines are met
- Communication: - Ability to convey information skillfully and articulately in both written reports and analysis, and verbally. - Strong influencing and persuasion skills.
- Ability to challenge and adapt to changing priorities.
- Provide financial recommendations to non-finance staff.
- Friendly, approachable
Desired
- Experience of working in a production/ arts environment
- Experience with using SAGE 50 Accounts Professional
Accountable to: The Head of Finance
Key Relationships: The Development Team and remaining Finance team.