Job Description

Occupational Requirement - To be a practising Christian as an active member of a local church and be able to clearly demonstrate a personal commitment to the mission, principles, values and practises contained in our Ethos Statement.

Objectives:

To support the DFCS in proactively managing the financial position of the charity and to be responsible for all financial reporting, including Corporation Tax and statutory reporting

To report regularly, accurately and in a timely manner on OMF UK financial performance

To be responsible to the DFCS for ensuring the non-member aspects of Finance team GDPR compliance

To provide leadership for the Finance Department, upholding the Christian values and priorities of OMF in the policies and processes employed, together with providing support to reporting staff as required

To ensure the Finance Team meets all the relevant deadlines - both regulatory and those set internally

Key Responsibilities:

Implement procedures and methods of working to ensure the delivery of a high-quality stakeholder focussed service to OMF's internal and external stakeholders in consultation with the DFCS

Manage OMF UK's pension arrangements for both members and employed staff including liaising with external pension administrators and other stakeholders, providing help to members and staff where appropriate

Take the lead role for OMF UK in dealing with the charity's auditors in relation to the annual audit

Undertake monthly management accounting, forecasting, annual accounts preparation, carrying out analysis of financial information, where relevant, to provide relevant data to assist with decision making

Overall responsibility for preparation of the annual estimate and annual estimate schedule including liaising with members for related budget data and other departmental budget holders

Review Annual Estimates for 40% of members before finalising AE.

Monitor budgets against actual performance working with budget holders and members to deal with adverse variances

Act as a source of technical accounting expertise for departmental budget holders

Oversee the specialised work to OMF UK's charity status - Gift Aid claims

Act as Legacy Officer for OMF UK

Be responsible for non-member related year-end processes on OMF's International Finance System

Be responsible for member related year-end processes on IFS.

Approve expense claims for members

Prepare the Personal Income Report monthly and send to Area Reps and LT quarterly

Prepare and post the General Fund Distribution monthly

Process IOT's from other OMF centres

Manage the day-to-day processes of the Finance Team, which include income and payment processing, general ledger maintenance, financial accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, payroll and pensions administration

Support the DFCS in proactively managing the treasury position of the charity with responsibility for all Gift Aid, National Insurance, VAT (when relevant) and PAYE compliance matters and associated regulatory reporting requirements

Primary liaison responsibilities with OMF UK's bankers

Payment of Inter-office account to OMF International monthly in arrears

Manage the Finance team ensuring performance targets are met and carrying out regular staff appraisals to ensure team members achieve their full potential, in so far as this is possible within the OMF context

Responsibility for all aspects of Fixed Asset accounting including maintenance of the fixed asset register and 6 monthly physical asset checks

Manage OMF UK's Credit Card arrangements

Other responsibilities

Attend the Audit and Finance Committee

Act as minute taker for the OMF UK Investment Committee

Deputise for the Director for Finance & Corporate Services as and when required

Liaise with the Directors for People & Culture and Candidates in relation to the financial aspects of sensitive candidate/ member/ retired member issues

Represent OMF's Christian ethos in all work activities by applying a Christian mind and attitude, in particular when dealing with retired and former members on payroll matters

Participate as appropriate during lunchtime national office prayers for the furtherance of the organisation's objectives, in accordance with the agreed rota

Undertake any other ad-hoc duties as specified by your line manager

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 40,000.00-48,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Additional leave Health & wellbeing programme Work from home
Application question(s):

Occ Req - Are you a practising Christian? Occ Req - Are you an active member of a Church? Would you be prepared to sign our statement of faith?
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person