Financial & Business Controls Analyst
Job Location: London, Moorgate Hybrid (home and office)
Salary: £37,274 to £40,829 per annum based on 35 hours per week (Plus ILW if applicable)
Contract Type: Permanent
Are you the detail-driven detective who can track every donation, ensuring our financial and supporter data is spot-on before it hits the database?
Can you spot inconsistencies in data and fix it fast with smart solutions that keep our processes running smoothly?
Could you be the quality assurance champion who leads on our fundraising financial audits, ensures every donation is backed by solid evidence and gold-standard procedures?
Interested?
What will a Financial & Business Controls Analyst 's job involve?
- Reconciliation of fundraising donation data to the finance database, using both systems to assure receipt of all expected income and data.
- Analyse our financial data to ensure its integrity, verifying that all fundraising income is processed in line with Charity SORP standards.
- Identify and resolve all anomalies in the data to ensure full transparency of our banking discrepancies, refunds and chargebacks to enable claiming Gift Aid from HMRC with confidence.
- Act as a lead on income reporting projects where required, ensuring that all stakeholders provided with the relevant reporting to fulfil our fundraising obligations.
- Lead for Fundraising in financial audits, ensuring all outcomes are acted upon and any procedure changes required are adopted by relevant stakeholders and teams.
- Research, develop and publish all procedure guidance surrounding donation handling and ensure audit adherence to the procedures, to minimise risk as the result of poor data management.
- Proactively seek out areas for improvement that will help financial and supporter systems work better together using technology to ensure that income and data is processed within SLA.
What will a Financial & Business Controls Analyst need to be successful?
- Proficiency in all Microsoft Office packages with advanced knowledge of Excel.
- Curious and analytical with a drive to solve problems
- Confident in dealing with issues and delivering solutions independently
- Demonstrable ability to work in a highly organised and methodical way
- Ability to refine and present complex information in an accessible format
- Familiarity with the GDPR particularly in relation to data processing and retention
- Experience of managing and manipulating data on databases, including building queries and extracting data for analysis.
- Experience of quality assuring the accuracy of large data sets.
- Delivering management reports and data analysis.
- Experience of writing and maintaining process manuals to a high degree of detail needed to provide assurance to our auditors.
The closing date for completed applications is 23:59hrs on Wednesday the 11th of June 2025 with interviews to follow week commencing 16th of June 2025.
Please apply early, as we’ll be reviewing candidates throughout. We reserve the right to close the ad in advance of the published date.
In return for your commitment and expertise, you’ll get:
- Holidays: 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) + option to buy 5 extra days.
- Pension scheme: Up to 6% contributory pension.
- Flexible working: We do our best to accommodate your preferred work style.
- Learning & Development: Wide range of career opportunities + comprehensive learning.
- Discounts: Access to Blue Light Discount Card and employee benefits platform.
- Wellbeing Support: Access to mental health and wellbeing assistance.
- Team Working: Support our mission in a collaborative team.
- Cycle2Work: Lease a bicycle through the scheme.
- Season ticket loan: Interest-free loan for commuting expenses.
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