Finance Manager

About The Music Works and why we need this role

The Music Works is a Gloucester based charity that transforms young lives through music. In the last six years we have grown from a small charity to a multi-million pound one with over 30 staff with income coming from over 40 different sources.

The main purpose of this role is to support the Head of Finance, ensure the financial workings of the organisation run smoothly and efficiently and to help him work out what financial capacity is needed to deliver our ambitious vision for the future.

Working closely alongside Dave Eastcott, Head of Finance, the role will ensure the needs of a growing organisation are suitably met.

Key responsibilities

Financial: 

• Timely completion of all day-to-day accounting and finance activities of the charity, ensuring records are complete, system integrity is maintained, and financial controls are properly adhered to.
• Carrying out the accounting month-end processes including key monthly bank/QuickBooks reconciliations
• Assist in the preparation of monthly financial reports and scrutiny of restricted and unrestricted funds to ensure reserves policy is observed
• Regular review of budgets with project managers to ensure changes in circumstances are accurately reflected in the rolling monthly forecasting
• Systems support to budget holders to help them understand and make the most of the QuickBooks accounting system
• Financial assistance with funding applications.
• Assistance with the production of the statutory annual accounts, liaising with the auditor as required

Operational: 

• Oversight and implementation of financial policies and procedures including payroll and pension
• Preparation of reports for SLT and the Board

Person specification

We are looking to recruit against the following criteria:

• Considerable experience of bookkeeping (including using QuickBooks)
• Experience in producing financial and management accounts
• Good experience of budget management
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Excellent attention to detail
• Really good with numbers
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to support non-finance staff to manage their budgets
• Ability and desire to self-organize and work flexibly
• Able to come to Gloucester for monthly meetings
• A commitment to support the arts sector in Gloucestershire
• Qualified/part qualified accountant or qualified by experience

Details of the role

The salary will be £25K – £28K pro rata for two days a week – dependent on experience. We anticipate the two days a week will be worked flexibly across the week in liaison with the Head of Finance.

Dave Eastcott, Head of Finance, will provide support and be the main point of contact for this role but the role will also work closely with other members of the senior team – Deborah Potts (CEO), Malaki Patterson, Artistic Director, Ben O’Sullivan, Director of Education, Lyndsay Davies (Youth and Community Director) and Jessica Fairclough (Operations Manager).

We are flexible as to where the job is located although we would expect some time to be spent in our Gloucester studio. Home working is fine.

For enquiries about the role, please contact Dave Eastcott (Head of Finance) deastcott@themusicworks.org.uk.