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Role Purpose
The role provides operational technical support to ensure that all financial data used for organisational decision making is validated, timely and analysed to ensure appropriate insight. The role specifically delivers accurate Restricted Fund management and Reporting and implements changes to ensure best practice.
This role is part of Trussell’s Mission Enabling team, the goal of which is to enable and empower the effective delivery of all of the outcomes associated with our strategic programmes, and to ensure that the way we work at Trussell is aligned to our organisational values and approaches. In doing so, this role underpins the success of our organisational strategy – contributing to the fulfilment of our long term vision of a UK without the need for food banks.
Key Responsibilities
Validate Financial Data and analysis – Validate all financial reporting in all platforms by monitoring outputs and undertaking corrective action to ensure that all standard organisational reporting and analysis can be relied on for decision making. This includes working with the Assistant Financial Account to ensure that all finance system data configuration is designed to meet Trussell’s financial reporting and analytical needs and management of budget, forecasting and projections with line manager and finance business partners from agreed data collection tools through to system input and reconciliation to drive performance reporting.
Maintain Donor, grant and fund management– Maintaining donor funds by managing end to end finance interactions and delivering standardised reporting to all stakeholders to ensure Trussell meets its donor obligations. This includes recommending and implementing agreed changes to meet best practice standards.
Support Procurement and contract management – Support procurement framework effectiveness through analysis of supplier activity, tenders and market rates as required to deliver value for money in all activity.
Support Treasury and cash management – Support effective treasury management through maintaining up to date data for financial projections from programmes and mission enabling financial business partners to enable accurate forward forecast of our cash flows.
Person Specification
Knowledge acquired through accountancy qualifications (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CiPFA) or equivalent experience
Donor restricted funds management
Finance systems – data structure and analysis
Proficiency in Microsoft 365 products, especially Excel
Essential Skills
Time management and prioritisation
Data validation, extraction and reconciliation techniques
Financial modelling and analysis
Problem solving skills / troubleshooting
Key Experience
Operating in a fast paced, multi-disciplinary environment
Delivering financial reporting and analysis in a departmental/programmatic structured organisation
Registered Charity 
101 - 500
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
This is an exciting time to join RBL as we deliver our new 10-year strategy. Our Change & Transformation function plays a key role in helping the organisation prioritise, deliver and embed change that improves how we support the Armed Forces community.
As part of our ongoing transformation, the Change & Transformation team has recently transitioned to a capability-led model built around Change, Delivery and Reporting. Together, these capabilities provide the leadership, governance, delivery expertise, change support and portfolio insight needed to successfully drive and sustain organisational change.
This is an great opportunity for a Change professional who combines strong analytical capability with a passion for helping organisations and people adapt, adopt and thrive through change. You will support change from inception through to implementation, ensuring initiatives are effectively planned, understood and embedded across the organisation.
You will work closely with sponsors, project teams and stakeholders to assess readiness, understand impacts, shape change approaches and maximise adoption, helping to deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes.
Come and be part of the leading Armed Forces charity, making a difference to the lives of those who have served to keep us safe and protect our way of life.
Reporting to our Head of Change Analysis & Adoption, key responsibilities will include:
- Assess organisational readiness for change, identifying impacts, risks, dependencies and opportunities across people, processes and systems
- Support the development of cases for change, change plans and adoption strategies to ensure successful implementation
- Engage with stakeholders across the organisation, facilitating workshops, gathering insights and building commitment to change
- Analyse business processes and change data to provide recommendations that support decision-making and continuous improvement
- Support training, user adoption and post-implementation reviews to maximise the benefits and long-term success of change initiatives
You will be contracted to your home address, and you will perform most of your work remotely there, with occasional travel (incl. for monthly team meetings).
Employee benefits include –
- 28 day’s paid holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with optional annual leave purchase scheme of up to 5 working days
- Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Generous pension scheme with employer contributions ranging from 6% to 14%, depending on length of service
- Range of flexible working options may be available, depending on your role
- Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- Range of courses delivered by learning specialists to support your development goals and objectives
- Opportunities to volunteer
- Travel loans, Cycle to Work, and more!
For more detailed information about the role, please see the Job Description attached to our direct advert. Our teams take a personalised approach to shortlisting, which is carried out without the use of AI and is based on the evidence provided in your application against the essential and desirable criteria in the Person Specification.
RBL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics.
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer interview schemes for candidates who declare an Armed Forces connection and/or a disability. However, candidates are only eligible for this scheme if their application clearly demonstrates that they meet all of the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification for the role.
Interview Dates: 3rd and 4th September
We may close this vacancy early if we believe we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the role. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Thank you!
Analyst
The Role
We are looking for a motivated and passionate Analyst reporting to the Director of Impact & Research to join our team, to work across the organisation to support with providing insights to help inform our work and to report on our impact to funders.
This is a critical role as we grow our impact and research workstreams, to enable us to generate key insights, enhance reporting to our funders, conduct high quality research, and to support the development of an innovative and strategically vital framework for evaluating the impact of our work.
In your first six months, you will help improve our data preparation and aggregation and processes, contribute towards our annual report, support the full operationalisation of our impact measurement framework, and contribute to a major research project on the impact of a television series.
You will be a self-starter, confident in managing data collection processes, comfortable translating academic and audience research for lay audiences, and have an understanding of quantitative research methodologies. You may have a background in the screen industries, social sciences, or research agencies, have a drive to learn and a creative attitude towards creating new methodologies for research problems.
Key responsibilities
● Implement robust processes for the preparation and aggregation of our internal data, feeding into our Impact Framework
● Collate, prepare and analyse our data for internal and external reporting.
● Support the Director of Impact & Research with project evaluations
● Support the Director of Impact & Research with reporting to funders
● Summarise and translate relevant research to the team
● Research external case studies on specific TV and film projects
● Support the coordination of the Climate in Screen Entertainment Research Working Group
To be considered for this opportunity you will need to demonstrate the following skills
- At least 4+ years experience analysing quantitative datasets and identifying meaningful insights
- Ability to use IT proficiently, including Google products, Airtable and Excel
- Strong analytical skills using Excel, Google Sheets and Airtable to manage, clean and analyse data
- Communication Skills - ability to express ideas clearly, write well, and translate research for lay audiences
- Excellent written communication, with the ability to synthesise complex research into clear, engaging reports for non- specialist audiences.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with a wide variety of internal and external colleagues and contributors.
- Able to work as a member of a team and work in a confident and collaborative way.
Additional advantageous experience
- Experience working in Television and Film insights or research
- Experience with Brandwatch or other social listening platforms
- Experience using Python for data science
- Experience building dashboards in Google Studios, Airtable or other similar software
- Experience of qualitative research
