Finance Manager

The UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology is seeking a Finance Manager for a permanent, full-time position in Wallingford, CT, offering a hybrid work model (50% remote). The role involves leading a finance team, ensuring compliance with policies, and providing strategic financial insights. Candidates should have relevant qualifications, cross-functional finance experience, and strong communication skills. The organization values staff contributions and offers a comprehensive benefits package.
Salary - 50,341- 52,374
Hybrid working (50/50)
Permanent, Full time
Location: Wallingford
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we find the right candidate, so we encourage you to apply early.

Join the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) as a Finance Manager. In this influential role, you'll lead a dedicated team to implement and enhance UKCEH's policies and practices, ensuring alignment with our ISO-accredited standards and commitment to continuous improvement. By providing expert advice and guidance to senior stakeholders, you'll foster cross-organisational collaboration, ensuring UKCEH not only meets but exceeds its compliance and regulatory obligations. This is your opportunity to shape the future of environmental research governance within a globally respected institution

Your main responsibilities will include:
• Manage a team of Finance professionals to deliver operational objectives, ensuring the organisation is compliant with all policies, procedures, and processes and meets all applicable risk, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Act as key contact to build effective working relationships internally within the organization and also to external stakeholders. Delivery of high-quality professional services and communications, thus improving awareness, understanding and resolving queries.
• Deliver monthly/quarterly reporting metrics and KPIs, providing advice, identifying key trends and contributing insights that enable stakeholder understanding and the diagnosis of operational and financial performance. Enhancements to process delivery/efficiency and organisational performance are then delivered as a result.
• Where appropriate answer ad hoc queries and deliver analytics/reporting to identify and explain key trends that contribute to the stakeholder understanding and/or improvement of business performance.
• Supporting the head of function to deliver the strategic objectives and central projects through delivery of own team goals. Personally contribute to the development and evolution of overall strategy and objectives through constructive dialogue and challenging the status quo.

For the role of a Finance Manager, we're looking for somebody who has:
• Qualification in a relevant professional area or equivalent level of experience.
• Up to date knowledge of external regulations and best practice in specialist area
• Cross functional Finance experience
• Excellent presentational, communication and delivery skills
• Extensive team and stakeholder management
• Ability to objectively review operations & procedures and manage change
• Desirable but not essential:
• Tax/VAT experience
• Charity accounting experience
• ERP systems (Workday)

You'll be joining a leading independent, not-for-profit research institute that's committed to recruiting talented people like you, progressing your career and giving you the support you need to thrive at UKCEH.

Our science makes a real difference, enabling people and the environment to prosper, and enriching society. We are the custodians of a wealth of environmental data, collected by UKCEH and its predecessors over the course of more than 60 years.

Working for UKCEH is rewarding

We appreciate the continuous dedication and contributions of our staff, which is why we provide a comprehensive benefits package that includes financial incentives and wellbeing-oriented perks, such as:
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 29 days after 5 years' service) plus 3 days for Christmas closure
• 10% employer pension contribution
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements (role dependant)
• Peer reward and recognition scheme
• Dental insurance, gym/fitness discounts, retail discount portal
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• 24-hour, 365-day support with physical, mental, social, health or financial issues and much more...

Apply today!

If this opportunity resonates with you and aligns with your personal career goals, the team would love to receive your application. Please apply by submitting your CV along with a covering letter that highlights any qualifications, skills or experience you believe are relevant to this role.

At UKCEH, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone-regardless of background, identity, ability, or circumstance-has the opportunity to thrive. As a Disability Confident employer, we actively encourage applications from neurodivergent candidates and those with disabilities. We are happy to provide any adjustments or support you may need throughout the application process-please don't hesitate to reach out. So, if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd love to hear from you anyway. You may be just the right fit for this role or another within our wider team.

We welcome applications from international candidates; however, at present, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.