• All LocationsLocation:
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  • The opportunity and what makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work

  • Are you a technically exceptional finance leader who thrives on accuracy, control and making a real difference?
     
    At Community Integrated Care, we're one of the UK's largest and most successful social care charities, supporting thousands of people to live the best lives possible. As we continue to grow, evolve and integrate new services, we're looking for a Senior Financial Controls Manager to help ensure our financial governance, reporting and control environment remains industry-leading.
     
    This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of a complex and varied financial controls function within a large charitable group, influencing senior stakeholders whilst leading critical statutory reporting, audit, treasury and compliance activities.
     
    This is a full time permanent role with attendance at our head office in Widnes required at least once a week so our ideal candidate will be based within an hours commute of Widnes.
     

    What is The Deal for you?

    • Flexibility! You can work your full-time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments.
    • Benefits: Retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app.
    • Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives bolder 
    • Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
    • Dare to Learn: Access to our amazing online training platform where you can upskill taking a variety of courses and qualifications.
    • Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life.
  • Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

  • As our Senior Financial Controls Manager, you'll be the technical finance expert responsible for maintaining the integrity of our financial reporting and control framework.

    Reporting into the Head of Financial Controls, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring robust governance, supporting acquisitions and integrations, coordinating external audits, strengthening financial processes, and providing assurance to the Executive Leadership Team and Board.

    Your expertise will help safeguard our organisation's financial future, enabling us to continue investing in the people and communities we support.

     
    What You'll Be Doing
     
     You'll lead a broad portfolio of technical finance responsibilities, including:
     
    •  Maintaining and strengthening the organisation's financial control framework
    •  Owning balance sheet integrity and producing monthly balance sheet and cash flow reporting
    •  Leading the preparation and review of statutory accounts and financial statements
    •  Coordinating the consolidation of group and subsidiary accounts
    •  Managing external audit relationships and ensuring successful audit delivery
    •  Overseeing compliance submissions including HMRC, ONS, Gift Aid and other regulatory requirements
    •  Leading treasury accounting, liquidity reporting and cash flow forecasting
    •  Supporting business acquisitions, mergers and integrations from a finance perspective
    •  Driving financial process improvement and reducing manual intervention through smarter controls and systems
    •  Translating complex accounting matters into clear, meaningful insights for senior leaders and trustees
    •  Leading, coaching and developing a high-performing finance team
  • About you:

  • What We're Looking For

    We're seeking an experienced technical finance professional who combines strong commercial awareness with exceptional attention to detail.
     
    Essential:
     
    • ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
    • Significant experience within financial accounting, financial controls, audit or statutory reporting
    • Strong understanding of UK accounting standards, financial regulations and governance requirements
    • Experience producing consolidated group accounts
    • Experience managing and coordinating external audits
    • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
    • Strong leadership experience with a track record of developing teams
    • Advanced Excel skills
    Highly Desirable:
     
    • Experience working within a charity or not-for-profit environment
    • M&A accounting and business integration experience
    • Exposure to complex group structures
    • Experience leading finance transformation or control improvement projects
    What You'll Bring

    You'll be a proactive and solutions-focused leader who can balance technical excellence with strategic thinking. You'll enjoy solving complex challenges, improving processes and building strong working relationships across the organisation.

    Most importantly, you'll share our passion for delivering excellence and helping ensure every pound entrusted to us is managed responsibly and effectively.

    Why Join Community Integrated Care?

    You'll become part of an award-winning organisation that's recognised as a Great Place to Work and committed to developing its people.
     
    Ready to Apply?

    If you're a technically accomplished finance professional looking for an opportunity to take ownership of a critical financial controls function within a values-led organisation, we'd love to hear from you.


    Apply today and help us build a stronger financial future for the people we support.
     
    Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.


    Interested and want to know a bit more?

    To find out more about our charity check out:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zYkoj7x8s

    We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.

    In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34.

    The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones – and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations. 


     
     
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