Independent Age works to ensure that as we grow older, we all have the opportunity to live well with dignity, choice and purpose.  To achieve this we provide information, advice and connection services for older people; campaign on the issues that matter most to them around health and care, poverty and loneliness and provide capacity building support to others working in the sector.

Independent Age works to ensure that as we grow older, we all have the opportunity to live well with dignity, choice and purpose.  To achieve this we provide information, advice and connection services for older people; campaign on the issues that matter most to them around health and care, poverty and loneliness and provide capacity building support to others working in the sector.

This is an exciting time to join the charity as we transition to our new ambitious strategy for 2021 – 2023 and increase our profile, impact and reach so more people can live a happy, connected and purposeful later life. 

The Head of Finance plays a critical role at Independent Age, ensuring that our Finance Team deliver an excellent service to all our colleagues, and that the team’s work enables the delivery of our organisational strategy and thus increases our impact for older people. The postholder will also work together with our Director of Finance & Governance to provide strong financial leadership to the whole charity.

The ideal candidate will hold a professional accounting qualification and have previous experience of leading a finance team in the charity sector. You will be a technical expert, familiar with all aspects of the Charity SORP, current sector issues and the operation of VAT, tax and Gift Aid within registered charities. You will be a strategic thinker, and a strong problem solver with a drive to improve performance, and the ability to lead your team to achieve it. You will build strong relationships across the charity and inspire trust and confidence in stakeholders as well as within your team.  Most importantly, you will have a demonstrable passion for and affinity with our cause.

As well as a competitive salary we offer 28 days annual leave plus public holidays, a generous pension scheme with life assurance, learning and development opportunities, season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion and creating an environment where we can ALL be ourselves

Independent Age is committed to safeguarding and this role will require a DBS certificate.

Please note this role is London based but we are currently working from home due to COVID19.

For further details on how to apply please contact Leanne McCullough at Altum Consulting.  Please select How to Apply for their details.

Harris Hill are recruiting for a Finance Manager (Head of Finance) for this well-established NHS Charity based in London
You will be the most senior finance person in the charity, working closely with the Chief Executive and Senior Management Team.

Salary range: 45,000pa to 50,000pa Depending on experience

Purpose:
To have responsibility for all aspects of financial and management accounting for the Charity. To lead on the day to day running of the finance function, including the maintenance of the accounting records and the efficient and timely provision of financial information for the Charity Trustees, CEO, Fund Advisors and Auditors.

Key duties and responsibilities:

* Management Reporting
* Produce monthly management accounts, including analysis of income and expenses against prior year and budget, providing explanations and solutions to help mitigate risks.
* Cash flow reporting and management.
* Statutory accounting and financial statements
* Lead and manage the production of the statutory audited accounts (SORP) for the Charity in collaboration with the Charity's Auditors.
* Ensure the Charity's Annual Return is completed, fully compliant and submitted to the Charity Commission.
* Budget
* Work with the CEO to prepare the annual budget. Work with budget holders to review performance against budget and ensure the Charity is operating within the agreed budget.
* Investigating variances with budget holders and analysing potential problems. Making appropriate recommendations and advising of the impact on the Charity.

Grants

* Provide overall management of the grant process and applications for charitable funding from within the NHS Trust.
* Lead in the continual improvement of the grant-making policy and practice within the Charity.
* Internal control environment
* Key involvement in improving controls and processes.
* Identify and investigate risks.

Payroll

* Manage all payroll and PAYE matters with the outsourced provider.
* To ensure that effective processes, procedures and controls are in place and followed to ensure that the Charity consistently complies with PAYE regulations and timelines.

Systems

* Implementation of new systems solutions, and upgrades of the current finance applications.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

* Qualified with at least 5 years commercial accounting experience, and 1-2 years charity exposure.
* Advanced Excel, good level of overall IT literacy.
* Problem solving and delivery of effective timely solutions.
* Relationship building - communication across functions and externally.

Harris Hill are recruiting for a Finance Manager & Company Secretary (Head of Finance) for this well-established Charity based North of Manchester

Salary Range: to 43,000pa

The Finance Manager (Head of Finance) will report to the Chief Executive leading a team of 3 finance staff.

The role requires you to lead finance and operations, whilst advising the Chief Executive, Trustees and Management teams on financial matters and governing the charity correctly.

You will need to be a Qualified Accountant with experience in the preparation of annual financial statements using SORP, monitoring budgets and the costing of services provided, cashflow management, VAT and developing systems using SAGE Line 50.

This role is part of the senior management team

Finance Business Partner

Office Based: Stevenage

Contract Type: Permanent

Role no: 91

Working pattern: Full time - 37 hours, 5 days per week Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Salary: £38,000.00 - £41,000.00 per annum (dependent on experience) + Benefits

Giving people a voice – and making sure it’s heard – is something POhWER does every day. We’re all about promoting equality, challenging unfairness and giving disadvantaged and vulnerable people access to high quality information, advice and advocacy services. POhWER is a registered charity that provides a range of services across England.

We are looking to recruit people who share our core values and can demonstrate that they apply and live those values in their daily working practice.

We have a current vacancy for a Finance Business Partner to join our finance team working in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

To ensure POhWER’s financial effectiveness we are looking for a committed Business Partner to support this demanding and rewarding role. You will be responsible for providing the business partnering to internal financial and non-financial managers to improve financial awareness, as well as contributing to robust financial controls and month end processes.  This is a varied role and will involve collaborating with the wider team to achieve robust control frameworks, to manage costing models and standard costing to support pricing and commercial opportunities and evaluate costs across the charity.

A key requirement for this role will be having skill in interpreting and communicating financial information to a wide range of stakeholders, using judgement, logic, reasoning and integrity. You should have advanced Excel and modelling skills and strong experience of working in a finance department, comfortable with the wide range of controls, practices and accounting regulations relevant to a charity like ours.

You will be a confident positive team player, able to work in partnership with colleagues and professionals.  Our ideal candidate will have worked in a similar role, have strong communication skills and time management skills will be required and you will need to be computer literate.

Please refer to the job description for further information about the role.

Completed application forms will only be considered for this role.

Please apply via our website

Closing date: 10am, Monday 4th January 2021

Interviews: Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th January 2021

A DBS check will be required for this post.

POhWER is an equal opportunities employer, holder of the Investors in People Silver award and a member of the MINDFUL EMPLOYER scheme. We are a member of the Positive about Disability scheme and disabled applicants who meet all the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

It will be in the FBPs remit to drive growth for this renown charity, making recommendations on investment analysis conducted by the finance team. The ideal candidate will be able to present their suggestions in a clear and concise manner to budget holders.

Client Details

Recruiting a Finance Business Partner position for a renown non-profit organisation in Greater London. This established organisation needs a Finance Business Partner to contextualise the financial statements to budget holders and conduct variance analysis. This is an inclusive organisation that will welcome a team player to join their unified finance department

Description

They will be responsible for:

• Producing management accounts
• Leading on month-end
• Involved in the preparation of the budget
• Organising regular meetings with budget holders
• Strategising with senior stakeholders on opportunities for growth
• Setting KPIs to drive improvements in performance

This is not an exhaustive list and successful candidate will need to adapt to the changing needs of the organisation.

Profile

This client is looking for a proactive, qualified accountant that will drive productivity and growth with the organisation. They will need:

• To be a fully qualified account (ACA, ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA)
• To have proven experience in a management accounting role
• Experience communicating with stakeholders
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• You must have worked in the not-for-profit sector before. It is beneficial if this experience was within the charity sector
• Proven adaptability

Job Offer

This is the ideal position for someone looking to test their technical capabilities and improve their skill set, in what is a challenging role.

HFT is a national charity that supports more than 3000 people to live with independence, choice, and with all the support they need and provides services to 1000’S more through our projects: Love2MeetU, personalised technology and Family Carer Support.

In response to the changing landscape across the learning disability sector, we are developing a new and exciting business strategy, which provides a framework detailing how we run our business support activities, processes and systems across the organisation.

As part of this new and exciting strategy HFT are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner to the Northern Division based in our Wakefield office to help support our transformational journey over the forthcoming years.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new vision and influence and shape the direction of the charity with the wider finance team

As a Finance Business Partner you will:

• Support the management team and stakeholders from a financial and commercial point of view, helping to drive optimal business decisions and to deliver better financial performance.
• Support the management team and partner with key stakeholders in the relevant region, helping to improve overall service performance. The FBP will produce fee costings to maximise fee rates and insightful analysis to help to drive improvements in the cost base.
• Support the budget and forecast processes, helping to build realistic targets engaging with and working alongside operations and central stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver focused reporting and analysis to the operations and central teams.
• Support the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis and the wider Finance team as needed.
   

About you:

• Have experience of working in a finance business partnering role with a commercial
  and pragmatic outlook, balancing financial targets with competing priorities.
• Be a good relationship builder, who is supportive, able to build rapport and work
  collaboratively with key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Be a Qualified accountant - CIMA/ ACCA/ACA who has strong analytical and interpretation skills and flexible, and able to deal with changing and competing priorities
• Be organised and thorough, with an attention to detail and see things through to completion and be able to challenge in a constructive way
• Be self-motivated, resilient and have managed multiple workstreams over a successful career to date
• Have experience of budgeting and forecasting in a complex organisation and be able to work with stakeholders to deliver a budget in line with expectations

Up to £40,000 salary for a 35 hour week
car allowance of £320 per month
contributory pension scheme
up to 25 days holiday
private health cover

Finance Business Partner

Permanent

Salary up to £40,000 plus £320 per month car allowance and benefits

Multiple Locations across the UK

HFT is a national charity that supports more than 3000 people to live with independence, choice, and with all the support they need and provides services to 1000’S more through our projects: Love2MeetU, personalised technology and Family Carer Support.

In response to the changing landscape across the learning disability sector, we are developing a new and exciting business strategy, which provides a framework detailing how we run our business support activities, processes and systems across the organisation.

As part of this new and exciting strategy HFT are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner to the Northern Division based in our Wakefield office to help support our transformational journey over the forthcoming years.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new vision and influence and shape the direction of the charity with the wider finance team

As a Finance Business Partner you will:

• support the management team and stakeholders from a financial and commercial point of view, helping to drive optimal business decisions and to deliver better financial performance.
• support the management team and partner with key stakeholders in the relevant region, helping to improve overall service performance. The FBP will produce fee costings to maximise fee rates and insightful analysis to help to drive improvements in the cost base.
• support the budget and forecast processes, helping to build realistic targets engaging with and working alongside operations and central stakeholders.
• develop and deliver focused reporting and analysis to the operations and central teams.
• support the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis and the wider Finance team as needed.

About you:

• Have experience of working in a finance business partnering role with a commercial and pragmatic outlook, balancing financial targets with competing priorities.
• Be a good relationship builder, who is supportive, able to build rapport and workcollaboratively with key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Be a Qualified accountant - CIMA/ ACCA/ACA who has strong analytical and interpretation skills and flexible, and able to deal with changing and competing priorities
• Be organised and thorough, with an attention to detail and see things through to completion and be able to challenge in a constructive way
• Be self-motivated, resilient and have managed multiple workstreams over a successful career to date
• Have experience of budgeting and forecasting in a complex organisation and be able to work with stakeholders to deliver a budget in line with expectations

For more information please contact our retained consultant Nicola Shaw

Closing date 29th November

Interview date 14th December

Harris Hill are recruiting for a Financial and Management Accountant for this faith charity based in London.

Salary: to £45,000pa plus Benefits

Overall Purpose of the Role

* This role will support the Head of Finance in the management of the Finance team, VAT & payroll and in the preparation of financial analysis reports for the Leadership Team, and Trustee Board and sub-committees.
* The role is for a hands-on, role for a fully qualified accountant experienced in the preparation of financial statements, financial and management reporting, annual financial planning and VAT.

Finance Business Partner required to work with a prestigious not for profit organisation in London.

Your new company:
A charity with an income of over £40m. Although a not for profit organisation they have some commercial elements. This organisation would suit a candidate with an interest in education and cultural spaces.

Your new role:

• Deliver monthly and ad-hoc management reports
• Deliver an annual directorate budget
• Assist with and improve organisational business case preparation and tailoring of resources to achieve optimal strategic effectiveness
• Define and manage key stakeholder relationships to deliver improved financial performance, including technical financial support
• Improve the use of metrics within the Directorates to enable delivery of strategic objectives
• Implement and embed benchmarking to assist with performance assessment

What you'll need to succeed:
This role will suit a qualified accountant with previous experience in a similar role - Finance Business Partnering, Management Accounting or Project Accounting.

What you'll get in return
8% employer pension contribution, onsite gym, 27 days annual leave. A vibrant workplace with a diverse range of activities.

What you need to do now
Please apply ASAP to be considered. The organisation is considering applications now.

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Our partner has played a key role in supporting the most vulnerable people during the COVID-19 crisis in the UK. As a result of an increase in the demand for the crucial services they provide, they have grown rapidly and are at an interesting phase in the development of their finance function. Specifically for this role, they are seeking a candidate to offer full financial management of a substantial new grant received, and additionally support them through the current phase of growth, increased volume and complexity of activity. 

Responsibilities

• Lead on the full cycle management of the grant, including designing and strengthening processes and controls, providing oversight of coding and entering transactions, making corrections as required, and reconciling data.
• Supporting budget holders in all aspects of grants compliance, monitoring and reporting. 
• Undertake programmes finance analysis and support in the development of reports for internal and external stakeholders. 
• Support in the preparation of the donor audit.
• Act as a business partner to the programmes team, providing accounting & financial support, analysis and identifying risks in order to better assist resource allocation and decision making within the organisation.

Requirements

• An experienced accountant (qualified or finalist) with experience in a finace role delivering a large, complex project.
• A commercial background, ideally within logistics or retail, and a strong understanding of charity finance, including grants compliance and monitoring.
• Good systems experience, intermediate/advanced knowledge of Excel.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work successfully with finance and non-finance staff, and engage a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Whilst this role is home-based, it is only open to those candidates who have the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship. This is a 6 month contract. Immediate start preferred, with the organsiation open to candidates who are able to start latest by early January 2021.

Zetetick Housing (ZHC) is seeking a highly experienced Head of Finance (HoF) to provide consistent, robust and expert financial support to the Exectutive Team. A new exciting role offering opportunities to help shape our future.

You will be expected to take on executive functions and provide operational line management to the finance team. Working closely with the finance team, the HoF will be accountable for all aspects of financial accounting and transactional finance for the Charity, ensuring all systems are updated and reporting is timely and in line with all annual financial returns.

This is a hands-on role working with the Executive team to develop and maintain a five-year business plan and associated budgets to meet the Boards strategic objectives for development and sustainability in operational and educational areas. 

You will be expected to develop new standard operating procedures, policies and protocols where needed for an organisation that has grown organically and intends to grow further, handling all aspects of finance recruitment.

The HoF will support the CEO in all aspects of our Company Secretarial obligations, in particular acting in similar capacity for the Chair of the Audit, Risk & Finance Committee.

This is a great time to join ZHC Executive team, as the Board sets ambitious goals to double in size over the next 5-7 years, as well as seeking approved registration as a Registered Provider with the Regulator for Social Housing.

Harris Hill are recruiting for a Finance manager for this well-established charity offering support services to Children and Adults.

The position reports directly to the Director of Finance and looks after 3 finance officers

* Permanent Finance Manager
* South London/Surrey boarder, but currently home based

Responsible to: Director of Finance & Corporate Services
Salary: £45,000pa - £48,000pa
Finance Team of 5

This position is urgent.

The role is responsible for ensuring data integrity, developing strong controls and preparing and analysing financial performance as the organisation centralises its Finance function.

This includes, managing the year-end external audit, month-end and year-end accounting processes, responsible for the control of the balance sheet reconciliations, developing and managing the financial reporting processes, heavily involved in planning, budgeting and forecasting, implementing robust policies and processes.

You will have 5 years management experience and be either a Qualified Accountant or someone with extensive experience, as a Finalist or Part Qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIPFA)

* Statutory accounts preparation
* SORP and charity compliance framework
* Understanding of charity accounting e.g. restricted funds
* Experience of producing information for business cases or funding applications
* Producing and writing reports
* Business partnering with non-finance departments

Harris Hill are recruiting for a Financial Accountant on a 9-12-month fixed Term Contract to Permanent for this Grant Giving Charity based in Central London.

* The position is currently working from home but will be expected to work from the office at least 3 days a week once the office reopens.
* Salary: 40,000pa - 50,000pa depending on experience
* You will need to be a fully qualified Accountant for this assignment

Person specification

* A qualified accountant with experience of working within a Charity or in an accountancy firm and auditing charities
* The principal requirement of the role is a good level of experience in charity accounting and reporting with the proven competence in the preparation of annual reports and financial analysis. To deal confidently and expertly with a variety of finance tasks.
* Good experience of finance systems (PS Financials, so experience of this system would be a distinct advantage). Very good Excel skills and experience in production of management information. Experience of reporting packages such as Power BI would also be an advantage.

The role

* The primary responsibility of the role is the preparation of statutory accounts and other financial information for a number of the charities in the organisation.
* The role will operate under the overall direction of the Head of Finance with specific areas of work being under the direction of Accountants within the team.
* Support the ongoing accounting and reporting of the investment portfolios. Including preparation of information for the trustee's investment committee

The Financial Accountant will have the following responsibilities.

Financial reporting

* Preparation of annual reports (year ending 5th April) from their financial records. This includes the preparation of supporting analysis and detailed disclosures as well as liaison with the Auditors.
* To support the senior members of the finance team by preparing periodic financial summaries, cashflow projections and other management information.

Management Information and Finance Partnering

* Preparation of financial information for the trust executives and materials for trustee meeting. Including details of grant making.

Investment management

* Support the ongoing accounting and reporting of the investment portfolios. Including preparation of information for the trustee's investment committee.
* Monitor the cashflow of funds between the trusts' investment portfolios, deposit accounts and their clearing banks.

Financial Control

* To support the financial control processes including the preparation of key reconciliations and analysis.

Job Title: HR Business Partner

Location: Nottingham City, but travel to Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, South Yorkshire Lincoln and Lincolnshire is an essential part of the role.  Some home working is an option

Salary: FRWK 18, £31,602 to £34,041 pa FTE

Status & Hours: Permanent, 37 HPW (to be worked over 5 days)

Interviews: 14/12/2020

Do you want to work for an organisation where 96% of staff, in the last Staff Survey, said that they enjoy their work?

We are looking for an HR Business Partner to join our enthusiastic and busy HR team.  Reporting to the Head of HR, you will join a team of 12 (including 2 other HR Business Partners), and play a lead role in supporting and advising our staff and Managers at all levels.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a proven track record and experience in all aspects of employee relations
• Have excellent generalist HR knowledge and a sound working knowledge of current HR employment legislation
• Have experience of advising Managers and Senior Leaders
• Have experience of managing processes of change, i.e. TUPE/Redundancy/Restructure processes
• Have experience of writing and advising on HR policies and procedures
• Have excellent IT and communications skills
• Know how to make a positive impact in the interests of service delivery to our Service Users
• Be a graduate CIPD member

• Be resilient, confident & determined

• Have access to a car for work purposes and be willing to travel regularly to various sites across the organisation

In return, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package plus the chance to join an organisation that makes a difference to the lives of vulnerable people.

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application

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