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Closing Date:

16 July 2026

Closing Date:

16 July 2026

Annually:£41,503 per annum plus London Weighting Allowance £3,366 pa
Region:London and South East
Location:London - Weston House
Department:Financial Accounting and Operations
Vacancy Type:Fixed Term
Working hours per week:35
Duration of Fixed Term:1 year
Closing Date:16 July 2026

Are you looking for a role within an organisation where the work you do makes a real difference to children's? If the answer it's yes, Financial Accountant could be exactly what you're looking for.

Join us and help make every penny count.

At the NSPCC, we believe every childhood is worth fighting for. With over 100 years of experience, and the collective strength of our staff, volunteers, supporters, and partners, we're working to end child abuse and neglect for good.

At the heart of everything we do, our Finance team plays a pivotal role in stewarding our resources to focus on helping as many children and young people as possible.

In this current climate where more children and young people than ever need our support, our entire team are committed to making sure this is achieved by guaranteeing strong financial management and control.

From managing resources to supporting teams across the organisation, we provide the insight and stewardship that keeps the NSPCC strong, sustainable, and focused on impact.

If you're passionate about making a difference and want your work to have real purpose, this is the place for you, so join us as a Financial Accountant.

What is the purpose of the Financial Accountant?

This role is key to ensuring financial integrity and supporting strategic decision-making across the organisation. You'll contribute by:

Working with the Financial Accounting & Control Manager to ensure implementation, enforcement and monitoring of internal control procedures. Performing relevant tasks in relation to this such as review of journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
Monitoring and forecasting cash flow and maintaining appropriate treasury management procedures and controls including appropriate banking mandates.
Preparation of quarterly VAT returns and oversight of tax compliance within the organisation.
Critically evaluating, developing and embedding financial processes and procedures and ensuring these are fully documented.
Supporting the Financial Accounting & Control Manager in the delivery of the Annual Report & Accounts and preparation of Trading Company and ChildLine statutory accounts, including meeting the requirements of the external auditors.
Deputising for the Financial Accounting & Control Manager in areas of decision making and line management, offering support, guidance and mentoring to the Finance Officers as appropriate.

Your work will help us maximise resources and deliver on our mission to protect children.

What will I be doing as a Financial Accountant?

Play a key role in ensuring financial integrity, transparency, and impact across the organisation. This role sits at the heart of statutory reporting, audit, and financial control, helping to safeguard resources that directly support vital services. You'll collaborate across teams, influence decision-making, and drive continuous improvement by ensuring every pound is managed effectively to support the organisation's mission.

Manage year-end close, audit processes, and preparation of statutory accounts, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.
Maintain strong financial control through oversight of reconciliations, journals, payroll, and balance sheet integrity.
Manage cash flow, treasury activities, and banking relationships to ensure effective liquidity and compliance.
Oversee VAT, tax compliance, and intercompany transactions while providing technical guidance across the organisation.
Drive improvements in financial processes, support and mentor team members, and contribute to reporting and decision-making.

What skills do I need to be a Financial Accountant?

Newly qualified or finalist level accountant with experience of working in a financial function of a complex organisation.
Up to date knowledge of charity accounting (SORP), UK accounting standards, direct taxes, VAT and other applicable legislation. Ability to interpret and apply this legislation to the NSPCC's circumstances.
Experience in the production of consolidated Statutory Accounts and dealing with external audit requirements.
Experience in the evaluation, documentation, implementation and enforcement of financial control procedures.
Experience of overseeing and reviewing reconciliations, with the ability to identify errors and guide staff in the resolution of issues.
Strong attention to detail and the ability to enforce adherence to rules and standards.
Able to work under pressure with conflicting priorities, manage workload and deliver to deadlines.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, particularly the ability to convey financial issues to non-finance staff.
Proactive approach and skill in creative problem solving with experience implementing new financial controls and procedures.
Ability to understand a wide range of stakeholder needs and adapt services where necessary.

Why join the NSPCC?

Any one of our people will tell you that a huge reward in itself is making a difference to children's lives. But we know it's a competitive world, and it's important to feel valued in your role and receive more practical, tangible benefits. We offer salaries that are at least comparable with the top charities in the UK, as well as these benefits.

Generous annual leave- 29 days per annum plus bank holidays for full-time employees (pro-rata for part-time). 32 days per annum after five years' continuous service.
Employee discounts- Our discounts portal gives you online access to over 3,000 discounts and offers.
The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)- an independent, free, personal support service. It can provide information, support and advice to support your health and wellbeing.
Pension- building up a good pension is something we want to help you achieve with our flexible, tax-efficient pension schemes.
Life assurance scheme- All employees will be given life assurance of one times their salary, unless they join the NSPCC Group Personal Pension Scheme, where members are given life assurance of five times their salary.

Join us and make a difference. You'll grow, be challenged, and help change millions of young lives for the better.

Ready to apply?

If this is the role for you, please click the button ‘apply' to start your journey. You can find more information on all recruitment stages on the Career page.

Still have questions about the role?

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Sarah Akinlade (sarah.akinlade@nspcc.org.uk )

If you are interested in applying for this role, we encourage you to apply early. To help us manage the process we may close the vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive a strong response to the role.

In keeping with our values and our policies, if any individuals who are regrettably at risk of redundancy apply for a role and meet the minimum essential criteria they will be given priority consideration. We hope that you understand our position on this and that this will not discourage from applying. We cannot predict who, internally, will apply for a role, or whether they will meet the minimum essential criteria. Where no at-risk candidates meet the minimum essential criteria, all applications will be considered as normal.

Supporting Documents

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

At the NSPCC we are on a journey to becoming a trauma-informed organisation for the children, young people and families that we work with, as well as our staff and volunteers. To be trauma-informed is one of the guiding principles that shape and guide our 2021-2031 Strategy. This means understanding the nature of adversity, trauma, and resilience so that we can work towards reducing and preventing further harm and promoting recovery and healing. Coming to work at the NSPCC will provide the opportunity for you to join us in our commitment to becoming a trauma-informed organisation.

NSPCC is that the NSPCC highly embraces,

encourages and promotes diversity and

inclusiveness of staff.

Siobhan Walters / Children's Services

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