Senior Finance Officer

Are you looking for your next challenge within a fast-paced Finance processing team?
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is hiring a Senior Finance Officer to join our team
We are seeking an experienced Senior Finance Officer to take ownership of both Accounts Payable (AP) and Income functions within our Finance team. This is a key role requiring a high level of flexibility and the ability to switch seamlessly between AP and Income responsibilities, often in response to business priorities and reporting deadlines.
You'll be comfortable working across both areas, ensuring continuity, resilience, and strong financial control. You will act as a go-to person across AP and Income, providing cover, expertise, and leadership where needed.
Salary
The salary for this role is £40,833 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, salaries are set using sector benchmarking. To ensure fairness for all, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate

Key Responsibilities

Accounts Payable (AP):

• Lead the end-to-end accounts payable process, ensuring accurate and timely processing of invoices and payments
• Review, approve, and manage payment runs and supplier reconciliations
• Resolve complex supplier queries and ensure adherence to financial controls
• Maintain robust documentation and audit trails

Income:

• Lead income processing across multiple income streams
• Ensure accurate and timely posting, reconciliation, and reporting of income
• Work closely with fundraising and operational teams to resolve income-related issues
• Ensure income is correctly coded, including restricted and designated funds

Cross-Functional & Flexibility Focus:

• Demonstrate the ability to switch priorities quickly and confidently between AP and Income, particularly during month-end, year-end, and peak periods
• Provide effective cover across both functions to maintain business continuity
• Support and train colleagues to strengthen resilience across the Finance team
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes across AP and Income.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• AAT qualified or part-qualified accountant, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience working across both Accounts Payable and Income.
• Demonstrated ability to move between AP and Income tasks with minimal supervision.
• Strong reconciliation and financial control experience.
• Highly organised, adaptable, and able to manage competing priorities
• Excellent Excel and finance system skills.
• Strong communication skills.

How to Apply Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.

Closing date: 21st January 2026
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Benefits

• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A flexible approach to working arrangements.
• Access to our enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.

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About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity

Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible. We were delighted to be named Charity Times - Charity of the Year 2024, recognising the impact of our shared mission
Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here https://www.gosh.org/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-strategy/
As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact [email protected]

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.