Finance Manager / Financial Accountant (Charity)

Finance Manager / Financial Accountant (Charity) GWT Full-time or Part-time (28 hours) Join Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) and use your finance skills to support nature s recovery across Gloucestershire. We re looking for an experienced Finance Manager / Financial Accountant to lead the day-to-day running of our finance function. This is a hands-on role overseeing transactional finance and payroll, strengthening financial controls, and improving board reporting with line management responsibility for two Finance Officers. If you enjoy bringing order, clarity and momentum to finance operations and want your work to directly support conservation impact we d love to hear from you. What you ll be doing Overseeing day-to-day finance operations (AP/AR, credit control, banking, journals, payment runs, month-end routines) Owning and maintaining cashflow forecasts (weekly/monthly), highlighting risks and actions early Overseeing payroll end-to-end, including reconciliations, pensions, HMRC compliance and year-end tasks Leading monthly close and key balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring an audit-ready trail Maintaining and improving board reporting packs with strong version control and reconciliation to source data Supporting good restricted/unrestricted fund controls and applying charity finance compliance in routine reporting Working confidently with finance systems and improving processes, templates and documentation (including Xledger and Access CRM) ..... full job details .....