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Finance Operations Manager

Salary £54,000
Location Cromwell Road, London
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Role

The Finance team are responsible for ensuring that all of the V&A’s activities are underpinned by appropriate financial processes, reporting, insight and analysis; that we comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; and that the V&A operates in a way that is financially sustainable over the long term. As the V&A’s footprint in East London grows with the reimagining of the Museum of Childhood and the opening of new sites in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the Finance team needs to continue to evolve to support the new family of museums. The V&A is also in the process of designing and implementing a new finance system (Business Central); this launched for V&A Enterprises, the trading subsidiary, in April 2023 and is due to launch for the V&A Museum in April 2025.

To supervise and be responsible for a high-performing finance operations team, providing accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash office services to all V&A sites. To ensure excellent customer service is delivered at all times and oversee the delivery of training and communication to ensure policies and processes are well-understood by the wider business.

Working closely with the Financial Reporting Manager and Financial Planning & Analysis team, to support the V&A’s Strategic Plan by seeking continuous improvement across their area of responsibility and responding effectively to all new initiatives at the V&A, ensuring financial processing needs are met and new areas of income and expenditure are captured appropriately.

 

We have the right to close this vacancy early.

The V&A

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.  

Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:

  • To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
  • Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
  • Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
  • To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
  • Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
  • Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.

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Benefits

Generous pension scheme

29 days plus bank holidays

Flexible working​

Tickets to V&A exhibitions

Subsidised staff canteen

25% discount in V&A shops

Give as you earn scheme

Bicycle loan

Interest-free season ticket

Interest-free rental deposit loan

Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike

Wide range of training and professional development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff diversity networks

ED&I at The V&A

At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010.  As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications:  

  • The Guaranteed Interview Scheme – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;  
  • Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.  
  • Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.  
  • Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.  
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