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Finance Process Lead; Charity – Temporary Jobs in Poole, UK at RNLI
Finance Process Lead (Charity Income) – Temporary (to 30/06/2028) Salary : £50,544 to £59,464 (dependent on experience) Contract type :
Temporary:
Fixed Term Contract or Secondment Hours :
Full-Time Location :
Poole, Dorset, England Location description :
Hybrid between home and Poole average of 2 days per week in office (as required) Interview date : w/c 11th May Closing Date : 04-05-2026 Reference : 21458
About us Our purpose is simple: to save lives hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue. They are supported by a dedicated, professional, and talented team behind the scenes. This is your chance to join that team and use your unique skills to help save lives every day. Were looking for a Finance Process Lead to join our Digital Transformation Programme Team until the end of June 2028.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who will be supporting the Senior Finance Workstream Lead Officer on our Digital Transformation Programme in ensuring the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Programme is successfully delivered.
Your role As Finance Process Lead, you will be supporting the Senior Finance Workstream Lead, acting as a key liaison between the Finance function and the Digital Transformation Programme. Youll provide expert input into the design, build, and implementation of new finance processes and systems ensuring alignment with best practice, regulatory compliance, and the charitys strategic objectives. You will play a pivotal role in shaping how finance supports the organisations mission in a digital-first, data-driven environment.
This role will be tasked with focus on the following areas:
– Act as a representative for finance within the transformation programme, working cross functionally with BAU representatives and collaborating closely with business analysts, solutions architects and project managers – Support the Senior Finance Workstream Lead in ensuring future state designs deliver effective controls (preventative and detective) to meet all Fiscal and Regulatory Compliance / Reporting and RNLI Policies, including where necessary control reconciliations for interfaces/integrations – Ensure the integrity of all financial reporting, both internal and external and act as a subject matter expert for the organisational future in accounting, funds, and fraud, including ongoing responsibility for any legislative changes – Collaborate with IT and external vendors on system configuration, testing, and data cleansing and migration activities – Lead the design and optimisation of end-to-end finance processes (e.g., Forecast to Plan, Plan to Report, Source to Pay, Donate to Receive, Order to Cash, etc).
Support the delivery of data enabled decision making based on simple and standard financial reporting About you Youll be someone who is meticulous and diligent to ensure the necessary accuracy and compliance. Our ideal candidate will love problem solving with the ability to understand the bigger picture and how decisions made will impact Finance. They must possess exceptional communication skills at all levels and be confident in building effective relationships with both financial and non-financial colleagues.
To be considered as our new Finance Process Lead, you will:
– Be a fully qualified member of accounting body (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) OR – You should hold a recognised accountancy qualification, be working towards a qualification or be qualified by significant experience – Have substantial knowledge of core finance processes: F2P, P2R, S2P, O2C, D2R, P2P, DS2R, P2PR, I2D, A2D etc.
– Experience in preparation of statutory and management accounts – Extensive ERP systems and Microsoft Office experience – Strong understanding of charity sector finance operations, including restricted/unrestricted funds, grants, and donor reporting – Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills – Strong ability to bridge business and technology, translating finance needs into digital solutions It is also desirable that you have:
– Previous experience working on large-scale digital transformation or ERP implementation in the not-for-profit sector -…
Title: Finance Process Lead; Charity – Temporary
Company: RNLI
Location: Poole, UK
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