Head of Transactional Finance Permanent

Head of Transactional Finance

Salary:£48,000-£50,000 per annum

Sector:Not-for-Profit

Location:London, Hybrid Working

Are you an experienced finance professional with a passion for driving high-quality financial operations? Do you thrive in a values-led organisation where your expertise contributes directly to supporting a meaningful social mission?

A not-for-profit organisation is seeking a Head of Transactional Finance to lead its transactional finance operations, covering Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger and Payroll across multiple entities.

This is a key leadership position, responsible for ensuring excellent financial control, streamlined processes, and strong, customer-focused service delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger and Payroll teams to ensure consistent, high-quality performance and exceptional internal customer service.
• Own the design and delivery of financial transaction processes, systems and reporting
• Review and optimise team structures and workflows, ensuring they are efficient, resilient and fit for the future.
• Manage financial policies and controls to ensure compliance, accuracy and operational efficiency.
• Oversee timely and accurate ledgers, investigating and resolving complex queries.
• Lead end-to-end payroll operations, ensuring compliance with HMRC requirements, pensions and statutory payments (SMP, SSP etc).
• Maintain strong internal controls to support accurate income collection, timely supplier payments and robust financial reporting.
• Build productive relationships with internal stakeholders, external funders, suppliers and operational teams.
• Support the production of consolidated and subsidiary year-end accounts under Charities SORP (FRS102).
• Oversee day-to-day cashflow management and lead the production of rolling cashflow forecasts.

Essential experience:

• Professional accountancy qualification (CIMA / ACCA) – essential.
• Experience leading transactional finance teams, including driving process improvement and developing staff.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience of payroll within a large or complex organisation.
• Experience managing complex cashflow.
• Consolidation and reconciliation experience.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with large volumes of data.
• Experience with financial systems and accounting software
• The ability to handle competing priorities, tight deadlines and fast-paced workflows.