An exciting opportunity to become the first Finance Director of a new company established by a group of Yorkshire Age UK Charities: Doncaster, North Yorkshire and Darlington, Sheffield, Wakefield District and York with an ambitious vision to share support services.

You will join the newly-incorporated CASEwork organisation at its inception and play a crucial role to ensure that the organisation provides effective and efficient corporate, financial and financial management systems and policies that maximise the charities’ resources to enable them to successfully deliver their charitable objectives, providing excellent financial functions using a new Microsoft Dynamics finance system to the five founding members, and potentially new members in future.
The post is crucial to the successful implementation of this system and way of working. A qualified accountant, skilled in providing strategic advice, budget development and producing statutory accounts, experienced in leading change projects.

You will build a robust organisation, providing effective leadership, working with the Board to grow the business and increase the range of services. You will lead on corporate governance for the Board.

Commercial Finance Business Partner: Permanent, £50,000 - £55,000

For an international visitor attraction based in London, we are recruiting a Commercial Finance Business Partner on a permanent basis to support the Commercial, Marketing and Engagement teams. This commercial business partnering role will provide strong commercially focused decision-making support to the Commercial and Sales Director and COO's and MD's. The role will lead the ongoing development of the business reporting processes including the forecasting and modelling roles as well as the dashboards and KPI reporting.

Main Duties:

• Provide first-class business partnering support to all budget holders within Commercial, Marketing and Engagement Services
• Financial reporting and commercial modelling including income, profitability, cost analysis, forecasts, and modelling
• Scenario modelling including visitor numbers, spend per head, membership and contribution forecasting and modelling
• Leading the development of the business performance and financial reporting tools including monthly KPI and dashboard reporting processes
• Developing enhancing commercial modelling capability
• Supporting commercial activities including bids, tenders, and catering contract negotiations
• Supporting the annual budget, forecast and long-term business planning and modelling processes
• Preparation and delivery of monthly management accounts to all budget holders
• Support budget holders with P&L analysis and insight reporting
• Building improves business performance and financial reporting including dashboard and KPIs
• Maintaining and enhancing internal forecasting and reporting model
• Cash-flow and reserves modelling and forecasting

What will you bring to this role?

• ACCA, CIMA, ACA qualified
• Proven commercial experience including excellent modelling and dashboard experience
• Experience with building models, graphs, and dashboards
• Power BI experience would be advantageous.
• Proven experience as an engaging business partner, working in complex organisations
• Commercial mind-set, strong modelling, and analytical skills
• Ability to present financial information in clear and engaging formats for decision making
• FP&A, forecasting, budgeting experience
• Experience or driving continuous improvement in business performance
• Sun Systems and Q&A would be desirable!

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My client is a Charity that excels in its goals and provision of services and has a very high profile across the country.

They are currently looking to recruit a new Finance Manager to the organisation to help with the delivery of all the financial objectives of the charity, bridging the gap between the finance team and Board of Directors

The primary purpose of the role is to manage the charity’s finances ensuring good financial controls are in place and that sound and appropriate practices are maintained.

The postholder will advise the charity on all matters relating to the financial performance of the organisation and provide management information for the Executive Team, and Board of trustees. The Finance Manager will work with the Head of Finance in setting budgets and monitoring the financial performance of the Charity, helping to ensure that the charity’s finances operate in line with SORP regulations

You will also be expected to manage a small team and contribute to future strategy, business planning, yearend accounts, monitoring of budgets and performance, and policies and procedures.

Good communication skills, commercial awareness and the ability to multitask and prioritize deadlines and changing schedules is important.
Prior experience of working in a charity is advantageous as is a good knowledge of Sage and SORP accounting
 

The job of a Save the Children’s UK Pricing & Commercial Manager is interesting and fulfilling.

• Are you commercially minded with a passion for data and numbers?
• Do you enjoy analysing and interrogating data?
• Are you passionate about using data to influence business decisions?
• Do you have exceptional interpersonal, influencing and relationship-building skills?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Business Development Team Lead, the Pricing and Commercial Manager is an active member of the Business Development Team that is responsible for demonstrating to our donors the benefits for them of working with Save the Children through the delivery compelling and mutually beneficial proposals which deliver real change for children.

The Pricing and Commercial Manager will commercially support the Business Development team in their goal to competitively secure large-scale funding from institutional donors, trusts and foundations by leading the pricing for major (including multi-million-pound) national and global funding opportunities. 

Key duties will include acting as the subject matter expert on various commercial pricing projects, assessing data to help develop various pricing strategies, using statistical modelling methods to determine their potential impact, presenting pricing analysis findings to key stakeholders and recommending competitive pricing strategies which offer value for money (VfM).

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The Pricing and Commercial Manager will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The Pricing and Commercial Manager will support organisational commercial capacity and provide hands-on pricing strategy recommendations to the Business Development team by:

• Leading on the commercial and financial aspects of national, regional and global bidding opportunities

• Reviewing the budgets and commercial arrangements of an assigned portfolio of bids

• Ensuring bidding opportunities and pricing strategy recommendations demonstrate value for money and that costs recovery and risk is taken into account

• Conducting financial modelling/cashflow forecasts to determine the determine the financial risk potential impact of various pricing strategies

• Producing and presenting high quality, well structured, narrative commercial proposals and finance papers for key stakeholder approval

• Providing contract and financial negotiations advice and support to the Save the Children country offices and the Business Development Team

Person Profile

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in successfully understanding, evaluation and interpreting data

• Experience using Excel at an advanced level (e.g. advanced formulas and functions)

Skill

• Solid understanding of value for money (VfM) principles

• Solid understanding of financial principles and systems

Abilities

• Ability to develop large budgets (£1m+) for institutional donors and present budget information to donors

• Ability to translate qualitative information into logical budgeting and pricing recommendations

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment

• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

We are recruiting a Finance Manager/ Head of Finance post for a fast-growing climate change organisation.

The Finance Manager will be responsible for supporting the Director of Finance in the production of the management accounts and delivery of the annual budgeting and planning cycle. The Finance Manager will be the primary business partner for Directors of all operational and programme areas of the business and their teams and will help to develop robust and meaningful management information reports to aid in decision making.

Responsibilities of the Finance Manager:

• Supporting the Director of Finance in setting the organisation's long term strategic financial planning and annual budgeting processes. Accountable for ensuring processes are in place for resource allocation and performance monitoring of the organisation.
• Ensuring that the appropriate processes and procedures are in place to monitor the long-term financial viability of the organisation, advising directors on the financial consequences of proposed
• Lead on the development of financial reports to management and donors, ensuring that accountability to key stakeholders is maintained for all activities.
• Work closely with the Grants Manager to provide timely and accurate donor reports and work-in-progress updates for all concerned parties.
• Produce timely and accurate monthly management accounts with commentary and analysis
• Deliver financial strategic advice, insight and challenge into the efficacy of spend decisions, utilising commercial acumen in addition to technical and financial analytical ability, to support Directors of departments and their team's decision making on current and future plans.
• Support business partnered teams in their planning and budgeting cycle.
• Provide insight and scrutiny on proposed plans, ensuring the relevant financials are a reasonable expectation and present an efficient use of the charity's funds.
• Develop forecasting templates and embrace new technologies that improve the efficiency and insight of business partnered budget holders' forecasting.
• Identify and realise potential efficiencies in workload to release capacity for further value-add activities.
• To support the preparation of business cases and board papers.
• Work closely with the Financial Controller to provide information required for the production of the statutory accounts and annual audit process
• Manage two remote finance staff in the Belgium and Brussels offices ans take responsibility for their personal and professional development

Person Specification:

• We are looking for a proactive individual who enjoys building relationships with non-finance stakeholders and supporting others to make the best use of funds available to them
• Highly developed cultural awareness, and used to dealing with colleagues at all levels of the business.
• A strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-set
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.

Experience and Knowledge:

• A fully-qualified accountant (CCAB or equivalent)
• Experience of working in a business partnering role in an analytical capacity supporting non-technical decision makers
• Confident in preparing management accounts, budgets, forecasts and financial plans
• Experience in leading or supporting the annual budget setting process
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
• Highly developed cultural awareness, and used to dealing with colleagues at all levels of the business
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Good systems acumen with the ability to identify weaknesses and suggest improvements

Applications will be considered over the holiday period, and candidates with relevant profiles will be contacted in the New Year.

MAG vacancy: West Africa Regional Finance Manager – French-speaking (with an option of working from home in UK)

Starting salary £37,452 per annum (plus contributory pension)

Manchester, UK/Working from Home

Join a Nobel Prize-winning organisation committed to creating safe and secure futures for women, men and children around the world. MAG works by finding and destroying landmines, cluster bombs and the explosive remnants of war and by advocating and campaigning on behalf of those whose lives are blighted by the lethal debris of conflict. Be part of this life-changing mission by joining MAG to help us free from fear some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world.

We are seeking a Regional Finance Manager to join our Finance team, which provides day-to-day financial support and advice to MAG’s programmes in countries across the globe. This is an exciting and dynamic role, where you’ll act as a business partner to the West Africa region, using your finance skills and experience will help us make a real difference, supporting our work across the globe.

Reporting to the Senior Programmes Finance Manager you will be responsible for managing a small UK based programmes finance team on a day-to-day basis, and providing advice and technical oversight to our programme based Finance Managers. As a business partner, you’ll provide real-time support and analysis to senior managers as a trusted adviser, and add value that will assist in decision making and the delivery of MAG’s lifesaving work.

This role allows for flexible working where you may be based in the United Kingdom or work from home. You will be expected to manage your team, support proposal development and provide advice and analysis on budgets and financial contract management. You will be required to travel in order to provide support to our programmes overseas, including our programmes in West Africa and our HQ in Manchester, UK.

You will have previously worked in a finance role in a grant or donor funded environment, or in a commercial project accounting role. You’ll have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail and have staff management or mentoring experience. You will need to be able to demonstrate a strong background in financial modelling and contract management, ideally with experience of major donors. You will be committed to producing work of a consistently high standard and will have experience of undertaking reviews of business processes. Progress towards a professional qualification will provide candidates with a distinct advantage in applying to this role. Fluency in both English and French is essential for this role.

This is a fast-paced role and challenging role, which will require high levels of initiative, pro-activeness and strong multi-tasking skills. With an ability to lead, motivate and develop a small team, ensuring effective communication between various stakeholders, you will be a creative, flexible, solution-focused, professional business partner, committed to MAG's goals. In return, your professional skills, knowledge and experience will contribute to saving lives around the globe, and you’ll have the opportunity to see, and contribute to, MAG’s work first-hand.

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, and to ensure the health and wellbeing of everyone who works for MAG and their families we have put in place a new working arrangement – remote working from home - to reflect what is a rapidly changing situation. This role has opportunity to be carried out at Manchester, HQ or in a working from home environment.

Please note that as part of MAG's commitment to safeguarding, this post is subject to background checks before an offer of employment is confirmed.

MAG is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. If you think you would be suited to one of our roles we would welcome your application regardless of your background. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive working environment where all employees feel respected and supported in fulfilling their potential.

For further information and details of how to apply, please visit our website before the closing date of 7th February 2021. MAG reserves the right to bring in candidates sooner than the end date given as we wish to close this role promptly.

Due to the high volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every application. If you have not heard back from us within three weeks of your application, it means that your application has not been successful.

Applicants who are non-residents of the UK will need to provide documentary evidence of their eligibility to work in the UK.

Head of Finance role for a prestigious London University, leading a commercial finance team.

Client Details

This London University is one of the largest and most widely recognised Higher Education institutions in the world. They work across a variety of disciplines and within many of them they are world leading.

Description

• Lead a team of qualified and part qualified accountants
• Work across the university to provide commercial finance and decision making support
• Work with executive leadership on key projects
• Support the improvement of management information across the institution

Profile

You will be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with higher education or research based experience. You will hold a strong understanding of management reporting, process improvement and financial analysis. You will have also managed successful teams.

Job Offer

Salary c£70,000 plus excellent benefits, including up to 35 days holiday and around a 20% pension contribution

One of the leading charities based in West Sussex are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join their finance team.

This is a permanent role full time role where the role will be office based couple of days once the lockdown is lifted.

The salary being offered is between £48,000 - £52,000 per annum based on experience and qualifications.

Candidates applying for this role must have very strong business partnering experience and must have a recognised CCAB Qualification.

Your main duties are:
- Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts
- Prepare headcount and staff cost analysis explaining variances to budget
- Assist budget holders to prepare financial and project budgets
- Assist with forecasting and budgeting
- Define and manage key stakeholder relationships to deliver improved financial performance

Candidates applying for this role must have the following skills:
- Qualified Accountant with strong business partnering experience
- Experience of management accounting
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to understand the overall business needs
- Commercial acumen
- Technical knowledge of Charity reporting and VAT

The client is interviewing at very short notice.

Candidates shortlisted will be required to write a supporting statement.

If you are interested in this role, please apply immediately with a copy of your CV.

About Farms for City Children

Farms for City Children is a vibrant Charity that welcomes children from cities and disadvantaged communities to experience the adventure of working together on our farms in the heart of the British countryside. Whether they stay for a whole week with their school or come with a local group for a day visit, this unique experience can be life changing. Visiting children are immersed in the natural world of food, farming and countryside life where they participate in the seasonal tasks of the day: sowing, growing and harvesting in our kitchen gardens; caring for livestock and looking after the land; and cooking up a home-grown feast in the farmhouse kitchen. Spending time working alongside real farmers fosters children’s independence and helps them to grow in confidence, develops their self-esteem, and encourages them to become more resilient. At our heritage farms and in partnership with our commercial farming neighbours, children experience the benefits of collaboration, enjoy plenty of physical activity, good food, and fresh air, and discover the magical rural environment that is full of new words, sounds and experiences to inspire their creativity.

In more usual years, Farms for City Children welcomes 3,000 children for a week-long stay on our farms. With the disruption caused by the Covid19 crisis we have been unable to operate residential visits since March 2019 but have expanded our offer to also include day-visits for local groups, allowing us to reach beneficiaries and deliver charitable services. The Charity generates grants and donations to subsidise 60% of all visits, making it as affordable and accessible as possible for all children.

About this role

We are looking for a dynamic, innovative, and energetic Head of Finance and Resources who is looking for a challenging and busy role with the opportunity to lead significant change.  A passion for what we do and a belief in the overarching mission of our Charity is essential. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team and working closely with the Chief Executive this role has a vital and central part to play in ensuring the Charity continues to thrive.  The successful candidate will have an equivalent level of seniority in their current role and excellent technical accounting skills having worked their way up through the various level of finance functions over at least 10 years. The role has a broad scope that also includes oversight of the HR, governance, and administration functions, so demonstrable experience of working across these areas would be a significant asset.  A practical understanding of all aspects of a busy finance function gained in a similar-sized organisation is crucial, as is a thorough understanding of Charity SORP, a strategic approach, and the ability to communicate financial information effectively and clearly to non-finance colleagues.  This is a practical, hands-on role heading up a small and busy team, with around 40% of time working directly on transactional financial tasks and the remaining 60% on strategic leadership, financial forecasting, and management of a robust finance function.  Adaptability, flexibility and an enquiring mind with the ability to see beyond the day to day and strive for continuous improvement is key in this role.

This role will be based at our Huxham Barns offices outside of Exeter, Devon. Due to the Covid19 restrictions our Huxham Barns staff are currently working remotely with access to the office for essential tasks and facilities only. It is anticipated that all staff at Huxham Barns will return to the office when it is safe to do so.

The successful candidate will be required to travel to each of our farms at least twice each term for face-to-face meetings with farms teams.

Some flexible working will be considered for this role provided the role does not go below 33.75 hours per week (0.9 FTE).

The successful candidate must have the ability to travel between all four remotely located sites, across Devon, Pembrokeshire and Gloucestershire, with expense for travel reimbursed by the Charity. 

All appointments are subject to the receipt of two satisfactory references, evidence of the existing  proof of right to work in the UK, and a satisfactory DBS check prior to the start date.

To apply please email us with an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement clearly detailing how you meet the person specification.  Closing date for applications is midday on 27 January 2021. First interviews will take place during week commencing 1 February.

Could you be Settle’s Operations Manager? This is a new role for a small but impactful charity and will be key to our future success and ability to deliver high quality, essential services to our community.

About Us

Settle is an award-winning charity that supports vulnerable young people moving into their first home. Our mission is to break the cycle of youth homelessness by equipping young people with the life skills and confidence they need to thrive.

About the role

Due to recent expansion, we are now looking for the right person to help lead the next phase of our development as Operations Manager. This is a new role and will be key to our future success and ability to deliver high quality, essential services to our community. You will be responsible for the smooth day to day running of the charity, overseeing the operational and financial management aspects of Settle. You will work with the team to help build on the success of Settle’s first 5 years and report directly to our CEO.

You will have understanding, and experience, of the business and operational skills needed to meet the needs of a growing, fast paced charity. You will bring the ability to evaluate, adapt and create the effective and economical processes needed for Settle’s operations and culture to thrive, problem solving challenges where needed.

You will be a great organiser who does not shy away from a challenge. Flexible, enthusiastic and highly motivated, you will have great communication skills with the ability to build relationships with a range of diverse stakeholders. You will bring your professional excellence to all aspects of the role.

Key info

• Salary: £30-35k pro-rata depending on experience
• Hours: Part-time, 3 days per week
• Contract Length: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract with a view to extend
• Location: Currently remote working with future work at our office in London Fields, Hackney
• Start Date: March 2021

Please read the full job description before applying (attached below).

Finance Business Partner: £55,000 + benefits, London | Home (12 Month FTC)

For a global education company, we are recruiting a Finance Business Partner on a FTC basis for 12 months. Reporting to the Head of Business Partnering, this role will deliver a high-quality finance service to decision makers across the UK and Ireland Regions. This will involve management and project accounting, performance monitoring (financial and non-financial), budgeting and forecasting, providing insightful analysis and recommendations, business cases and tenders. Based in London, this role will have regular travel to either office as well as occasional travel overseas.

Main Duties:

• Key player in growth plans by supplying the business with expert financial and management accounting services
• Build relationships with Directors, budget holders and Departmental Heads
• Provide direction and robust challenge to non-finance staff
• Oversee general financial management and ensure the maintenance of accurate financial records, reconciliations and processing of journals
• Production of monthly management reporting packs, commentary and analysis of performance and trends
• Provision of regular insightful analysis for decision making including project and product performance reporting
• Work with stakeholders to complete financial forecasting, annual budgeting, business cases and tenders
• Implementation of new processes, systems and reporting techniques

Person Specification:

• ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified
• Advanced MS Excel skills and working knowledge of Sun Systems (ideally)
• Strong experience in a finance business partnering role
• Experience of working in a mutli-cultural and mutli-site organisation
• Experience of applying commercial principles to their analysis and recommendations

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Role Purpose

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the design, development, execution and evaluation of projects within the financial health strand of the Multiple Long Term Conditions MLTC Programme at Guy's and St Thomas' Charity, with a focus on private sector engagement. Your work will be varied and rewarding, involving interaction with many different stakeholders. You will be encouraged to pitch and progress ideas through each stage of our investment process and make them a reality in line with our strategy. This financial health strand of work adopts a dual focus on systemic change and people in Lambeth and Southwark who are most at risk.

Guy's & St Thomas’ Charity is an independent urban health foundation, working with Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and others to tackle the major health challenges affecting people living in urban areas, specifically in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. 

Our multiple long term conditions (MLTC) programme is a ten year, multi-million-pound programme exploring how people in urban areas develop multiple long term conditions such as chronic pain, depression and diabetes. Our strategy involves addressing social risks to health, such as people’s work, personal finances and housing. The financial health strand of this programme aims to address the dual challenge of health and financial health, by seeking ways to prevent financial difficulty and improve people’s options to better manage their health and slow their progression to multiple conditions.

You will have the freedom to connect leading companies in the finance and digital industries with everyone from grassroots community groups and social enterprises through to digital health ventures and public sector leaders. Your portfolio will stretch from work in local neighbourhoods and the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, to pan-London, national and international initiatives.

You may be scoping partnerships between national banks and community organisations to support people vulnerable to financial difficulty; project managing a money and health consortium to trial new Open Banking apps; commissioning experts to better connect financial and health data owners to improve outcomes for people with long-term conditions; or helping financial firms, health evaluators and others to join regional public policy initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide existing investments in financial health.

Be the go-to person for 3 to 4 partners who are delivering live projects. Problem-solve, advise and manage a £1m-£2m portfolio of active funding contracts, enabling the charity to deliver frontline impact on time and to budget, and gain insight to inform the future strategy of the programme.

• Build a pipeline of investment opportunities.

Originate and co-design a portfolio of a further 3 to 4 projects valued at up to £1.5m that support future influencing, and engage with banks, insurers and other financial services, with digital platforms and services, or with national and local data owners and processors. You will identify appropriate partners and hone ideas by advising them on a project’s strategy fit, risk, budget, complexity, impact potential and ability to be evaluated.

• Lay groundwork for systemic influences.

Develop the building blocks for the Financial Health strand’s influencing strategy. You will identify actions to influence and help us influence, prioritise across different opportunity areas and issues that are relevant, garner interest and have high potential for impact. You will also cultivate relationships in line with our reputation and areas of expertise.

• Support the internal investment process

Work with the wider MLTC team to make quality, high impact investment decisions by developing and presenting investment cases (including aim and strategic fit, due diligence, project plan, evaluation and governance) to our internal Executive Investment Committee for funding.

• Co-own successful delivery of the programme.

Collaborate with colleagues who support programme success by delivering high quality research and evaluation, communication of insights, policy engagement, tailored investment mechanisms and grant management.

• Be our ambassador

Represent the Charity with partners, manage and nurture external relationships, contribute to refining and evolving the strategy of our programmes, and deliver thought leadership and influencing work aligned to our goals.

Skills and Experience

Experience (essential)

•  Independently managing a portfolio of inter-related projects.
• Taking projects from design to delivery to completion on time and on budget.
• Working in business, especially the finance or digital industries.
• Building partnerships that involve a variety of people and organisations from across different sectors.

Experience (desirable)

• Programme / strategy development – particularly around solving complex social problems.
• Supporting products or services to go to market.
• Developing project budget forecasts, cash flow projections and interrogating management accounts for different types of organisations.
• Financial literacy, experience in assessing organisation’s strengths and weaknesses, and aptitude for making investment cases in line with commercial realities.
• Understanding of the different services and support available to help people prevent or manage health conditions.

Skills, abilities, and attributes

• Self-reliant and resilient – enjoys freedom to create, manages uncertainty and navigates changing environments.
• Clear strategic thinker – can critically appraise projects’ merit and link into wider programme and organisational strategy with ease.
• People person and relationship manager – who enjoys building and nurturing networks and uses strong interpersonal skills to motivate others.
• Excellent communicator – ability to cut through complexity and communicate concisely and in plain English to a broad range of audiences in written and verbal form.
• Ambitious and determined individual – setting high standards and working hard to achieve them.
• Efficient multi-tasker – able to manage a complex range of projects and competing priorities.
• Influencer – persuasive in situations without direct levers to pull.

If you are interested in this excellent opportunity, please send your CV and Cover Letter to Sheena Pentin at Careers4Change. 

Reporting to: Programme Director for MLTC

Contract: 12 month FTC, part time 3 days/week

Salary: £60,000 FTE pro rata

Closing date: Monday, 25th January, 2021 at 9.00am

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Finance Business Partner, Permanent, £50,000 - £55,000

For an international NGO based in London, we are recruiting a Finance Business Partner on a permanent basis to support the Business Services Directorate (Corporate Services) and CFO and MD across Finance, IT, Estates, Legal and Capital Works areas. The Finance Business Partner will prepare the annual statutory accounts for the main charity and the trading subsidiary and will manage the annual audit to final sign-off of the Annual Report and Financial Statements. This role will also provide business support to the Customer Engagement Directorates.

Main Duties:

• Provide first-class business partnering support to all budget holders within Business Services (Corporate functions) including Finance, IT, Estates, Legal and Capital Works
• Preparation and delivery of monthly management accounts to all budget holders
• Financial reporting and commercial modelling including income, profitability, cost analysis, forecasts, and modelling
• Supporting the annual budget, forecast and long-term business planning and modelling processes
• Support budget holders with P&L analysis and insight reporting
• Building improves business performance and financial reporting including dashboard and KPIs
• Preparation of annual statutory accounts for Charity and Trading subsidiary, through to Annual Report
• Management of the external audit process, planning the timetable and liaising with Auditors
• Maintaining and enhancing internal forecasting and reporting model
• Cash-flow and reserves modelling and forecasting

What will you bring to this role?

• ACCA, CIMA, ACA or CIPFA qualified with non-profit or charity experience
• Proven experience as an engaging business partner, working in complex organisations
• Strong experience of preparing financial statements and preparing and supporting audit processes
• Commercial mind-set, strong modelling, and analytical skills
• Ability to present financial information in clear and engaging formats for decision making
• FP&A, forecasting, budgeting experience
• Experience or driving continuous improvement in business performance
• Charity accounting and FRS102 experience
• Modelling and dashboard experience including building models, graphs, and dashboards
• Power BI modelling / reporting
• Sun Systems and Q&A would be desirable!

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As an employer, we are committed to ensuring representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

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For nearly 150 years we have been fulfilling our vision of inspiring artists and audiences worldwide with the magic of the iconic Royal Albert Hall; creating life-enriching, unforgettable experiences for everyone. Hosting nearly 400 events a year in the main auditorium and more than 800 in other spaces, the Royal Albert Hall stands true to its original purpose of promoting the Arts and Sciences. As a charity, the Hall is dedicated to maintaining the Grade I listed building and giving access to all. The Finance department is a crucial part of everything the Hall does. The role of Head of Finance presents a unique opportunity to be a financial leader in one of the world’s most famous and successful venues.

The Role

We are seeking a high-calibre Head of Finance who will lead and manage the Finance function, motivating the team to fully support the Hall’s diverse stakeholders. This role requires someone with proven experience in all areas of finance. As a fully qualified accountant, with significant knowledge of financial and management accounting, you will apply your commercial and pragmatic mind to analysis, financial control, large-scale budget management, compliance, data-management and to preparing papers for senior management and trustees. You will manage the annual budgeting and re-forecasting processes and be responsible for communicating accurate monthly management information.

The Person

You will have significant experience, at a senior level, in leading, motivating and developing a Finance team to deliver all financial activities to the highest standard, with a focus on client service. Your diligence, gravitas and experience make you a natural leader who influences all you work with and ensures you will play an important role in the Hall’s management team.

We are looking for someone who can build successful relationships, communicate effectively and persuasively, think both analytically and creatively, and be a trusted partner to the leadership team.

Please contact Michael Quest of Ivy Rock Partners directly to find out more and request the detailed job description for more information. We look forward to hearing from you.

The closing date for all applications is midday on 4th January 2021.

Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 18th January 2021.

The Royal Albert Hall is a registered charity (no. 254543) and strives to be an equal opportunities employer.