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Director of Corporate Services

Percival, the not-for-profit recruiter

The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands (Hybrid)

£85,000 - £95,000 per year

Full-time

Permanent

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Job description

Percival are excited to be working exclusively with Auriga Services to help them appoint a new Director of Corporate Services to lead on finance and IT. The post holder will lead the organisations finance and IT function in this hands on role where you will be tasked with future proofing their client services and improving their systems.

Auriga Services is at the forefront of support for people and households who face hardship every day because of poverty. Through building partnerships they help organisations in the public, commercial and charitable sectors to deliver support to households in financial need. Their work and dedicated team directly helps hundreds of thousands of people each year by providing financial assistance, advice, and support.

Title: Director of Corporate Services

Salary: £85,000 to £95,000 per annum

Working Pattern: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Sutton Coldfield, Hybrid with two days a week in the office

In this role you will provide strategic direction, leadership and operational management of their Finance and IT teams, playing a critical role in driving the organisation forward. You will oversee the planning, execution and monitoring of IT projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget and meet the desired outcomes to make sure the organisation is future proofed in its offer to their clients.

They are looking for candidates that have good experience managing a finance function in a charitable setting and good knowledge of emerging IT and data systems. The ideal candidate will have experience in the private sector and have made the transition to the charity sector or at least have a good awareness of the internal working of charitable organisations.

Recruitment Timeline

Deadline for Applications: Monday 24th June

1st Stage Interviews: week commencing 1st July

We value diversity and know how important it is for charities to fairly represent their beneficiaries, therefore we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

The team at Percival are committed to your journey as a candidate and will provide any necessary support throughout the application process. If you need any assistance or require any reasonable adjustments throughout the process, please don’t hesitate to contact our Recruitment Director, Adam Allnutt.

To apply, simply submit your CV. Should you meet the requirements, we will provide you with the full job description and arrange a call or meeting to provide further information about the next steps. Please note you may be required to complete a cover letter in order to submit a full application. To fully understand what we will do with your data, please review our policy on our website.

We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.

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Posted on: 22 May 2024

Closing date: 20 June 2024 at 10:44

Job ref: Percival392CorpServices

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Director of Finance and Resources

The Outward Bound Trust

United Kingdom (Hybrid)

£80,000 - £95,000 per year

Full-time

Permanent

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At Outward Bound, young people leave behind their everyday lives to venture into a new world of endless opportunities. Could you be our next Director of Finance and Resources as we embark on our new strategy, ‘The Next Horizon’?

The Outward Bound Trust partners with schools, colleges, employers and youth groups to teach young people most important lesson they could ever learn: to believe in themselves. Young people’s lives are filled with pressures and challenges. They need the means to help them cope and thrive in this noisy and uncertain world – now and in the future.

We provide opportunities for young people to seize the moment and empower them to discover and embrace their unique strengths. At Outward Bound, young people leave behind their everyday lives to experience unfamiliar environments, and through challenge and adventure, young people learn to thrive and grow. This is where they discover who they are and what they are truly capable of.

The vacancy

You will be central to the leadership and management of Outward Bound and realising the ambition set out in The Next Horizon, leading the financial stewardship of the organisation. You will both oversee the management of the organisation’s financial resources and provide leadership in their utilisation to further the charity’s mission. You will also be responsible for the organisation’s environmental sustainability journey, and for IT, Digital, and trust-wide systems and processes.

The location for the post-holder is flexible, although will require frequent working from the Head Office near Penrith and regular travel for Board, Senior Management and other meetings.

About you

The successful candidate will be central to the leadership and management of the charity in the coming years working closely with the CEO and the Senior Leadership Team. You will be astute, collaborative, risk aware, have an attention to detail and thrive on working in a fast paced environment.

A fully qualified accountant with proven experience at a senior level in a finance role with responsibility across the whole finance function, you will have substantial financial leadership and commercial acumen. Experience in a national level organisation of comparable complexity is also required.

You will be a creative and entrepreneurial leader, able to develop your team members to their full potential. You should be committed to embedding the values of equity, diversity and inclusion into everything that you do.

A full job description and person specification is available on our website.

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