Senior Finance Officer
Location: Hybrid – Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill and Homeworking
Salary: £36,000 - £39,000 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Reports to: Finance & Systems Manager
About Us
Abbeycroft is a well-established charity delivering leisure, health and wellbeing services across Suffolk. With a turnover of c.£12m, we play a key role in supporting healthier communities.
The Role
This is a hands-on role combining financial accounting, team supervision and systems/process improvement. You’ll help to ensure smooth day-to-day finance operations while improving processes and reporting. You’ll work closely with the Finance & Systems Manager and wider teams to ensure accurate reporting, strong controls, and efficient processes.
This role would suit someone looking to step up or broaden their experience in a supportive, purpose-led environment.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Accounting & Reporting
- Support month-end close including journals, accruals and reconciliations
- Assist with management accounts and year-end processes
- Maintain the fixed asset register and depreciation
- Prepare and submit VAT returns, ensuring compliance
Cash, Income & Transactions
- Support bank reconciliations and cashflow monitoring
- Support oversight of purchase ledger and sales income processes
- Assist with credit control and monitoring of outstanding balances
Supervision (Transactional Finance)
- Provide day-to-day supervision and support across purchase ledger, sales ledger and reconciliations
- Review work to ensure accuracy and timeliness
- Support and guide team members to maintain effective processes
- Help manage workload and priorities within the team
Systems & Process Improvement
- Play a key role in improving finance systems and processes
- Support system updates, user queries, and issue resolution
- Identify and implement efficiencies to reduce manual processes
- Work with teams across the business to improve financial processes
Audit & Compliance
- Support year-end audit and respond to queries
- Ensure adherence to financial controls and procedures
Requirements:
- Part-qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) or qualified by experience
- Strong experience in Finance, including month-end processes
- Experience with VAT returns
- Experience supporting or supervising transactional finance activities
- Good Excel and finance systems skills
- Proactive, organised, and keen to improve processes
(Charity experience helpful, but not essential)
Abbeycroft can offer you:
- A multisite membership
- A discounted multisite membership for someone that lives with you
- Free child swims (not lessons)
- A generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Pension scheme with NEST
- After 6 months service, you may be eligible for our death in service scheme
- Opportunities for career development and progression
- HealthKey which provides:
- A real GP, available 24/7, by text or video — no appointments, no waiting
- A confidential helpline for emotional, legal, and financial worries
- Discounts on hundreds of high street brands — supermarkets, holidays, fashion, fitness, days out
- Mental health support
- up to 6 counselling sessions per year with no GP or other referral needed
Closing date: The closing date for applications is the 18th June 2026, however, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should a suitable candidate be identified, therefore early application is encouraged.
Join our team at Abbeycroft and become part of a rewarding journey dedicated to community well-being. Apply now to start your adventure with us!
Most roles at Abbeycroft involve some form of regulated activity with children and so an Enhanced DBS Check including the Children’s Barred List will often be appropriate.
As a Disability Confident Employer we encourage you to let us know If you require reasonable adjustments to any part of the recruitment/selection process. We will guarantee an interview to a candidate with a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010, if they otherwise meet the minimum selection requirements.
Please note that due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to everyone individually. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Pay: £36,000.00-£39,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Store discount
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Are you part-qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)?
- Do you have experience with VAT returns?
- Do you have experience with supporting or supervising transactional finance activities?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bury St. Edmunds IP33
