Brooke is an international animal welfare charity creating a world where working horses, donkeys and mules are free from suffering and have a life worth living. Brooke works with owners, communities, local health providers and policy makers to create both immediate and long-lasting improvements to the lives of working animals and their owners. Working at Brooke means joining a highly skilled, knowledgeable and dedicated global team. While bringing your own skills and expertise to Brooke, you'll also learn from a wealth of inspiring colleagues. We have an exiting opportunity for an experienced Financial Accountant to join our team. As the Financial Accountant at Brooke, you will manage the financial accounting team, ensuring financial records are accurate and complete, lead the annual statutory accounting and year end audit process and help us drive the change we need to make our finance function as efficient and effective as possible. Criteria What we’re looking for in our Financial Accountant: Qualified/ part qualified  CAAB accountant Experience of preparing charity statutory accounts and knowledge of SORP Excellent people management skills and ability to build and maintain positive working relationships Excellent organisational skills Hands on approach to work At Brooke, we celebrate diversity and the creative new ideas it brings. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds, in particular global majority candidates, candidates from a social mobility background, disabled and neuro-diverse candidates, and candidates under 25 as these groups are currently under-represented at Brooke. We are aware that studies have shown that women and global majority candidates are less likely to apply for a role if they feel they do not meet the full criteria of the job description. If you feel you meet the majority of the criteria, we would love to hear from you. We offer a variety of flexible working options to best support our staff and to ensure our working practices are as inclusive as possible. We may close this advert early, as we will be interviewing as and when we receive suitable applications.