Management accountant - Part-time or freelance
The Social Innovation Partnership, United Kingdom
Job Description
The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) is a small agency focused on social good. We do two main things:
- We help organisations to better understand issues, places and their own social impact
- We design and pilot new programmes to improve people’s quality of life and make society fairer
We are looking for a qualified and experienced accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) who can support our financial planning, risk management and reporting processes working one day per week or equivalent. We are open to working with someone on an employee or freelance basis.
As our accountant, you will work closely with our Managing Director, who leads on our strategy and assesses business performance, and our Senior Operations and Finance Manager (qualified to AAT level 3), who does most of our bookkeeping, processes invoices and payments.
Responsibilities
- Produce monthly management accounts, using timesheets and project forecasts to calculate the value of work delivered on an accruals basis
- Report against financial KPIs linked to risk at least once a month (cashflow forecast, committed income vs budget, committed income + sales pipeline value vs budget)
- Work with the MD to agree triggers for contingency action in case of financial risk and mitigation strategies
- Produce monthly financial forecasts based on our sales pipeline and committed income
- Produce quarterly board reports commenting on financial performance, variance from budget / forecast and offering recommendations
- Produce a quarterly analysis of project and service area Pamp;L
- Support the MD to develop the annual budget and set financial performance targets
- Support project managers delivering grant-funded projects to maintain accurate records of spending and to produce periodic project-specific financial reports
- Offer recommendations for how we can improve our financial systems and processes
- Provide support and advice to our Senior Operations and Finance Manager with processing payroll, making VAT returns and general bookkeeping
- Liaise with our external accountants and share necessary data and analysis to enable them to create our annual accounts
Requirements
Key skills and competencies:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with at least five years' post-qualification experience
- Familiar with Quickbooks
- Experience of acting as a financial controller or equivalent
- Experience of providing accounting services for a professional services firm
- Experience of producing management accounts and other financial reports and analysis
- Able to make sense of and distil complex information
- Strategic thinker
- Highly organised and able to multi-task
- Great attention to detail
- A strong team player with a supportive and enabling approach to working with colleagues
- Familiarity with Salesforce, Pleo and Fluidly is desirable but not essential
About TSIP
The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) supports organisations who are trying to do good to do better. We are a diverse team of technical and community specialists who are joining forces to drive inclusive social change.
We lead with empathy and curiosity in order to really get to know our partners and build trusting relationships. Our approach is collaborative, participatory and enabling. We work across sectors and on the ground with groups that share our values.
Over the last ten years, we have worked with some of the most ambitious charities, social investors and CSR programmes in the UK and launched programmes that have been scaled and replicated internationally. We have an amazing team and we are proud of the work we are doing and what we have achieved.
Some examples of our current projects include:
- Co-designing a hub with and for people in Hackney, where community members will be able to come together to respond to local issues and get sponsorship to put their ideas into practice
- Evaluating the impact of a large-scale regeneration programme on those living in the area and ensuring their views and priorities are used to shape how the area evolves
- Identifying ways in which a large UK charity can make their services more accessible and serve a more diverse range of young people
Over the next year, we will be looking to expand our community engagement and design work, while maintaining our strong track record in research, evaluation and learning. We will also be looking inwards and finding ways to drive more positive impact in all aspects of our work as we move towards 100% employee ownership.
Cultural fit
We are a small, flat and open organisation, in which everyone contributes ideas and opinions, f