Finance Manager
Salary £ 36071-£37020
Bristol
Vacancy listed 13/02/2026
Application deadline 02/03/2026
Details
Overall purpose of job

Responsible for the work of the finance team, the smooth and efficient running of all finance systems and processes, including monthly bank account, control account and other balance sheet reconciliations, payroll, pension, PAYE, credit control, gift aid and VAT returns, BACS payments, and preparing monthly management accounts and ad hoc management reports.

Main responsibilities

·      To maintain accurate and up to date financial records of Avon Wildlife Trust. This includes:
-      Managing the organisational balance sheet, including:
o    Managing all accounts payable, accounts receivable and intercompany accounts
o    Completing bank account reconciliations, cash management and credit control
-      Managing the organisation’s accounting and financial reporting system (Xledger), including being the system administrator
-      Completing all accounting for restricted and designated funds
-      Import and reconciliation of data from connected systems such as Online banking, ThankQ (Access CRM), BrightPay, Mosaic BACS, and booking systems.
-      Compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements including Charity Commission and HMRC (including VAT, PAYE and Gift Aid)
·       Provide support to managers and budget holders across the organisation to champion a culture of financial awareness. Assist with preparing budgets and forecasts and interpreting financial information. Brief directors and managers on variances against budgets and agree any actions to be taken.
·       Monitor compliance with financial procedures across the Group
·       To prepare and run the monthly payrolls for the Group for review by Director of Finance & Operations and to ensure that all deadlines/payment dates are met.
·       Responsible for submission of all HMRC returns.
·       To support the Director of Finance & Operations in the provision of accurate and up to date financial information to the Senior Leadership Team, Directors and Trustees
·       To support the Resources Team on the insurances and vehicle fleet
·       Lead on topical finance projects as appropriate and undertake other duties as requested by the Director of Finance & Operations.
·       Provide ad hoc advice to Trustees, staff and local groups as required
Benefits

• Pension with 5% employer contribution
• Life assurance
• Hybrid working
• Wellbeing support including Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Discounts and Cycle Scheme
• Wildlife Trusts Diversity networks
• Paid volunteering day
• Training and development
• One free AWT course day per year
• Minimum 33 days of holiday (25 annual leave + bank holidays) plus long service loyalty scheme
• The opportunity to make a real and positive difference to nature

Notes

PLEASE READ BELOW BEFORE CONTINUING: Please ensure you have completed an application form (found below) before continuing. You will be asked to upload this document.

This portal expires for editing after 24 hours, If you have been locked out of editing your application, you may send your completed documents to hr@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk. If you have any issues submitting your application, please email hr@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk.

Apply by filling in the application form, please fill this out paying particular attention to the details of your relevant experience, knowledge and skills, which is used for shortlisting against the person specification. It is best not to assume prior knowledge and higher scoring is more likely if you explain carefully why you meet the person specification in the Job Description.
This process will produce a shortlist of candidates.

CVs may be supplied as additional information but will not be used for initial shortlisting, rather used in subsequent steps.

Deadline: 9.00am Monday 2nd March 2026.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an online interview by an initial selection panel. First interviews may be online on Friday 6th March 2026.

Second interview for leading candidates will be in person on Wednesday 11th March 2026

Attached documents
Title File
Job Description Finance_Manager_-_Job_Description.pdf
Application form PDF Finance_Manager_-_Application_Form.pdf
Application form Finance_Manager_-_Application_Form.docx
Equity and Diversity Monitoring 2026 PDF Finance_Manager_-_Equity_and_Diversity_Monitoring_2026.pdf
Equity and Diversity Monitoring 2026 Word Finance_Manager_-_Equity_and_Diversity_Monitoring_2026.docx
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