Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. In 2018 we published a plan to end homelessness, and this now provides the framework for the work of Crisis over the coming years.
The Director of Corporate Services is a hugely important role for Crisis, enabling us to build on our growth and impact in recent years with the right financial strategy, systems, technology, premises and planning processes. This is not a CFO role with some functions bolted on; this is about leadership and creating the environment that enables our staff and volunteers to be their very best in bringing about the end of homelessness at an individual and national level. Crucially, it is also about role-modelling our values and contributing to the development of our culture.
Over recent years, Crisis has grown considerably and now has an annual turnover in excess of £50m. The Director of Corporate Services is at the heart of ensuring that this growth enables the organisation to deliver greater impact, delivering the 2018 – 23 strategy as a thriving organisation with excellent infrastructure and facilities for our members, staff and volunteers, an approach to risk that facilitates innovation and adaptability, effective governance and a clear approach to planning and performance and impact measurement.
The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant, and will need to demonstrate:
- Proven experience in a leadership role;
- An ability to provide strategic leadership to multi-disciplinary teams;
- Experience at Board level and ability to work in collaboration with Trustees and colleagues.
This is an exciting opportunity for the right individual. We are seeking someone fearless, independent and inspiring. You will be a confident, dynamic and engaging individual with excellent communication skills and confidence to operate at the highest levels. We welcome applications from a wide range of backgrounds; experience in both Commercial and Not For Profit sectors would be an advantage. This is an exciting opportunity for the right individual.
Please see the job description for a fuller list of responsibilities. If you feel you have the skills and experience to succeed in this role we very much look forward to hearing from you.
Please submit your CV, with a supporting statement describing why you would be the best person to join this team and make Crisis the best it can be. For an informal conversation about the role please contact Bryony Feeney via the Allen Lane agency website.
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Robertson Bell are partnering with a large organisation who have an inspiring social purpose whilst they recruit to a permanent Finance Business Partner role. Leading a team of four this role will partner with key Executive Stakeholders whilst also being responsible for quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and monthly reporting. This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly established team and gain varied experience in a highly sought-after organisation.
The key responsibilities will be:
* Working with key Executive Directors to support them on all financial matters and provide key guidance and advice.
* Be fully responsible for producing annual budgets and future business plans.
* Provide detailed commentary and analysis through the review of overall business performance.
* Deliver finance initiatives ensuring they are in line with the organisational goals.
* Collaborate effectively with the wider business driving key business objectives at all times.
* Create client focused and commercially minded solutions through a range of techniques.
* Lead on the production of accurate monthly management accounts including detailed budget holder reports.
* Highlight long term projects and work with the Director of Finance Business Partnering to implement these.
* Manage a team of three qualified Accountants and one Finance Assistant, ensuring they are motivated and have access to relevant training and development opportunities.
The permanent Finance Business Partner would be based out of their brand-new head office in Hampshire. This role comes with extremely generous employee benefits including 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30 over time), flexible and remote working, up to 12% matched pension, employee vouchers and discount plus much more!
The successful candidate will:
* Be a qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA, or equivalent).
* Have proven business partnering experience.
* Have management experience.
* Experience working within a large and complex organisation.
* Have first class written and verbal communication skills.
This vacancy is likely to close early so please apply now to be considered!
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As a Project Finance Business Partner, you will provide both assurance and challenge to the Client Director, and their team, in relation to the financial elements of their project plan, value for money and corporate governance.
About the role:
- Provides guidance on the application of governance within area.
- Acting as the Chief Financial Officer's (CFO) representative at monthly review meetings.
- Review and financial endorsement of Change and Investment Papers, challenging all risks/ opportunities/ ensuring programme impacts are clearly identified and any associated costs recorded.
- Provides guidance on appropriate IFRS accounting treatment of transactions (prepayment / accruals/ liabilities)
- Oversee the month end financial accounts close
- Contribute to the year end accounts and audit
- Complete monthly analytics of contract spend and accruals held and challenge budget holders
- Provide budget variance commentary
- Review and challenge emerging forecasts and monitor against Spending Review (SR) funding
- Lead Business Planning and forecasting process, providing guidance on planning principles and expectations as provided by HS2 business planning for the area.
About You:
- CCAB qualified accountant
- Experience in a Project environment.
- Experience in providing financial information to inform project decisions, recognising consequence against cost, schedule and quality.
- Experience in business planning, forecasting experience within a project environment
This role will start as home based but then move to the Euston area as restrictions are lifted
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ROLE: Senior Finance Manager (multiple vacancies)
SALARY: Band 8a £50,575 - £56,490 *
LOCATION: South London
SECTOR: Public Sector, Healthcare
HOURS: 37.5 hours per week
TYPE: Full-time, Permanent
*inclusive of HCAS
Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.
The Trust’s experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon. They are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where every one of the 3600 members of staff is valued. CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough’s only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team. Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.
The financial management division is currently recruiting three Senior Finance Managers to join their team and manage specialist divisions such as Corporate Services, Women and Children, Surgery, IT and Facilities.
Senior Finance Manager Job Overview:
- To act as the principal financial advisor integrated into the management team of the Corporate / Clinical Directorates to which the post-holder is aligned, including making a significant contribution to the business planning and financial monitoring processes.
- To produce a monthly financial position that has integrity, accuracy, analysis and contains all financial information relevant to the directorate, supporting both the Directorate and the Trust in achieving its financial objectives.
- To produce monthly variance analysis for the Directorates so that this can be used to take corrective action where appropriate. Enable them to understand the whole financial picture, including SLR, activity and income information.
- Business Case Production, where required to provide financial input into the preparation of Directorate or Trust wide business cases, working with both financial and operational managers.
Senior Finance Manager Person Specification:
This person will hold a professional qualification in accountancy (CCAB) and will be able to provide evidence of continuously developing by having relevant post-qualification experience or significant management accounting experience in a large, complex organisation (NHS experience is beneficial but not essential). Business partnering is a key element of the role so this person must demonstrate strong communication/people skills, the ability to present analysis and influence budget holders.
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust’s values are to always be professional, compassionate, respectful and safe. It is important that the Senior Finance Manager’s values are in line with these expectations and that they are able to communicate well and work with people at all levels of the organisation.
Senior Finance Manager Salary and Benefits:
- Band 8a £50,575 - £56,490 * (*inclusive of HCAS)
- 27 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (holiday entitlement raises to 33 days with service)
- Flexible working arrangements
- Excellent training, learning and development opportunities
- Generous pension scheme (including 20.68% employer contribution and a tiered system of employee contribution depending on your salary from 5% to 14.5%)
- Subsidised on-site nursey and childcare vouchers
- A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme including an on-site gym
- Health services discounts (retail, holidays, entertainment and restaurants)
- Season ticket loan
If you would like to find out more information about the opportunities, the Trust and to receive the full job description please contact Brooke Cooper at Allen Lane.
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As a Project Finance Business Partner, you will provide both assurance and challenge to the Client Director, and their team, in relation to the financial elements of their project plan, value for money and corporate governance.
About the role:
- Provides guidance on the application of governance within area.
- Acting as the Chief Financial Officer's (CFO) representative at monthly review meetings.
- Review and financial endorsement of Change and Investment Papers, challenging all risks/ opportunities/ ensuring programme impacts are clearly identified and any associated costs recorded.
- Provides guidance on appropriate IFRS accounting treatment of transactions (prepayment / accruals/ liabilities)
- Oversee the month end financial accounts close
- Contribute to the year end accounts and audit
- Complete monthly analytics of contract spend and accruals held and challenge budget holders
- Provide budget variance commentary
- Review and challenge emerging forecasts and monitor against Spending Review (SR) funding
- Lead Business Planning and forecasting process, providing guidance on planning principles and expectations as provided by HS2 business planning for the area.
About You:
- CCAB qualified accountant
- Experience in a Project environment.
- Experience in providing financial information to inform project decisions, recognising consequence against cost, schedule and quality.
- Experience in business planning, forecasting experience within a project environment
This role will start as home based but then move to Milton Keynes as restrictions are lifted
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I am currently working with a charity organisation based in Central London, who are looking to recruit a Global People Business Analyst on a maternity cover basis.
The post holder will be responsible for leading on data analysis and providing actionable insight of our people activities. By using technical skills in analysis, data visualisation and statistics, they will translate complex data into clear and actionable management information to support Corporate Services strategic and compliance objectives.
You will support the ongoing implementation of our Global People System, flagging risks and understanding emerging requirements and ongoing opportunities to develop and streamline processes, workflows and interfaces to ensure system benefits are realised corporately and globally.
The main accountabilities held within this role will include:
- Work with stakeholders to develop and maintain reporting solutions designed to meet business needs and inform change decisions.
- Produce accurate reports (scheduled and ad-hoc), analysis and People KPIs from global data set to meet strategic and compliance requirements
- Translate data analysis into more appropriate and accessible format using data visualization tools and techniques
- Monitor data integrity and advise on corrections required, liaising with key business contacts to implement solutions where possible
- Provide Business Analyst support to key stakeholders through requirements engineering, process mapping, risk identification, action planning and benefits realisation with regards to existing
- Build system users capability to effectively use People systems and maintain data integrity
- Ensure efficiency and continuous improvement of People systems and processes through enhancements and automation. Leverage benefits from automatic updates and collaborate with providers and other organisations to develop roadmaps and apply best practice
Essential Skills required:
- Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills and ability to use hard data and metrics to test and back up assumptions and develop business cases
- Experience in database management and advanced use of Excel
- Positive, flexible and adaptive attitude and approach to sustain performance when the situation changes, workload increases, tensions rise or priorities shift
- Ability to think strategically, act operationally and execute priorities methodically
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Analyse and interpret situations from a variety of viewpoints, finding creative, workable and timely solutions
- Proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously while maintaining a high attention to detail and quality of output
- Ability to work in a global context with sensitivity
- Ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive data
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A well-known international development organisation is currently seeking a Head of Financial Analysis to join their global hub in London. This is a key position within the central finance team. In close liaison with a variety of stakeholders across all areas of corporate services, you will be developing key processes and templates to inform on strategic and commercial decisions.
- Developing complex multi-year forecasts & templates
- Develop a robust in-year forecasting process to subsequently roll-out across global platforms
- Provide key analysis on forecast submissions for SMT and Board level members
- Support & advise SMT members on annual budget submissions
Direct line management of 1 newly qualified Financial Analyst
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Financial Analyst / Commercial Finance professional to join a fantastic organisation going through a period of significant change and transformation.
You will be CCAB qualified or equivalent with at least 3 years post-qualification experience. Knowledge of or experience in the international development sector is highly desirable.
ChangeStar is a fundraising and social change agency helping good causes to connect with people to do good things. For over a decade, we’ve been helping clients achieve some of the best fundraising and campaigning results in the sector.
This is a great opportunity in an agency that is going places. If you think you’re the right person for it, apply now!
Who we are seeking
We are a busy and growing agency, and are seeking a talented and experienced Account Manager to manage some of our client accounts. You will need to take full responsibility for managing the development of fundraising appeals and other communications for specific ChangeStar clients – from campaign planning to review.
This role is the engine of the agency, managing projects and delivering work within budgets and timescales. The Account Manager will also help to run the agency’s publicity, new business and social media work.
We are seeking someone with the following attributes:
- Fundraising experience – at least 3-5 years’ experience of managing direct response fundraising campaigns across a wide range of media – ideally (but not essentially) with some of this in an agency environment.
- Communications experience – you will have a good understanding of the channels we work with, including direct mail, websites and social media.
- Project management skills – experience of successfully managing complex projects to completion, including scheduling, budgeting and resource management.
- Proactivity and drive – someone with a real sense of energy, drive and ambition, who is willing to proactively take on new challenges, is always one step ahead of the game, and has the dynamism, energy and initiative to push both our clients and agency on to greater things.
- Great communicator – you will be a dynamic, warm and authoritative communicator, able to build great relationships with both clients and colleagues.
- Well-organised – you will be able to manage multiple projects, deadlines, clients and suppliers, and to solve problems calmly and effectively if they occur. Naturally, you’ll also have the ability to work independently.
- Passion for social change – a demonstrable passion for the issues that we work with – including progressive politics, the environment and social justice, complemented by a strong business sense in how to grow and protect our business.
Key duties
- Take full responsibility for managing the development of fundraising appeals and other communications for specific ChangeStar clients – from campaign planning to review.
- Manage suppliers – including copywriters, data analysts, designers and mailhouses – as part of this process.
- Act as the main point of contact for particular clients at ChangeStar, and the primary person responsible for managing and developing these relationships, including leading client meetings.
- Drive growth by seeking more work from existing clients and finding new business leads.
- Communications and PR – aside from managing our client projects, you will also be helping to run the PR and communications activity for ChangeStar itself – to build awareness of the agency within the not-for-profit sector.
- Social media – running ChangeStar’s social media accounts, including producing content, scheduling posts and analysing results.
- New business – managing elements of our new business programme, including cold mail, Fundraiser’s Friend newsletter, ChangeStar Charity Calendar, relationship building and running events for the not-for-profit sector.
- Any other tasks required by the Director – including contributing to the CS business plan.
Reporting to
Account Director
Package
This role will be available on a part-time basis initially, on 3 days per week, spread across 5 days. There may be the potential to increase the hours in future.
We are offering a salary of up to £30,000 p.a. (pro rata), depending on the experience and fit of the candidate.
You will be working from our office in the beautiful town of Lewes, in East Sussex, which is 15 minutes from Brighton and 1 hour’s direct train journey from London.
How to apply
To apply for this great role, send your CV plus a covering letter explaining why you want this role and why you would be perfect for it.
To find out more about ChangeStar, browse our website. If you’d like to chat through the role in more detail, call our Director, Richard Docwra using the contact details on our site.
Closing date – 15th April 2020