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DFN Project SEARCH is looking for an experienced charity finance professional to take on the newly-created Head of Finance role. As a well-established and successful UK charity, we are operating in a period of continued growth and require a Head of Finance who combines reliable financial insight, robust control and strong governance with hands-on delivery. This role will work closely with the Finance Director and wider executive team while remaining directly involved in month-end, reporting, controls, cash flow and systems improvement. This role has a requirement to travel to London an average of twice monthly as well as other UK travel to support away days and programme visits.
Key responsibilities include:
- End-to-end ownership of the finance function, ensuring accurate, efficient and compliant day-to-day operations.
- Working closely with the Finance Director to deliver management reporting, annual budgeting, statutory accounts and audit support.
- Strengthening cash flow forecasting, treasury oversight, credit control and financial planning to support organisational growth.
- Principal owner of the charity’s financial controls, policies, procedures and systems, further developing the use of Xero for real-time insight.
- Supporting the charity’s funding model through strong oversight of restricted funds, grant reporting, contract support and funder compliance.
- Build financial understanding across the organisation by supporting budget holders and translating financial information for non-finance colleagues.
- Clear reporting relationship with the Finance Director and line management responsibility for the Finance Administrator.
Essential criteria
The successful candidate should be a fully qualified accountant who is comfortable leading and doing in a small charity environment. They should be technically strong, confident with hands-on financial operations, and able to work credibly with the Finance Director, executive colleagues, trustees, external advisors and non-finance budget holders.
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA or equivalent).
- Proven experience in a finance management role with end-to-end responsibility for a finance function.
- Strong working knowledge of Charity SORP and charity accounting requirements.
- Experience preparing management accounts, statutory accounts and board-level financial reports.
- Strong cash flow management, balance sheet reconciliation and month-end close capability.
- Experience of restricted funds management, grant reporting and supporting budgets for funding applications or tenders.
- Confident using accounting systems, ideally Xero, and advanced Excel.
- Ability to explain financial information clearly to non-specialist audiences and partner effectively with budget holders.
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to line manage and develop a small finance team.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing Financial Instructions in a charity setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading change and process optimisation
- Experience in a remote or distributed organisation
- Experience of working with complex stakeholder groups across education, public sector, social impact or donor settings
- Experience of payroll oversight, VAT returns and finance systems/process improvement would be highly valuable.
Remuneration and Offer Considerations
Over and above the salary range offered, we also offer:
- Flexible working arrangements considered including jobsharing and part-time (minimum of 4 days per week) work as well as a condensed hours working pattern of 10 working days over 9.
- Annual leave buy-back.
- Remote role with travel as required.
- Wellbeing benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme and NHS top-up support.
To apply for this role you must have the right to work in the UK.
Please send a copy of your CV with a maximum of two pages, and a supporting statement outlining why you would like to work for DFN Project SEARCH, why you are interested in this role, how you meet the essential and where applicable the desirable criteria, and what experience you would bring if you were to be successful.
Final panel interview date is scheduled for 30 June 2026.
DFN Project SEARCH is a disability confident employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application process.
Registered Charity 
11 - 20
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Role Purpose
To ensure the organisation runs professionally and smoothly through maintaining its financial and accounting control functions in line with policies and requirements, and that financial information for internal and external use is available and accurate.
Role Overview
This role will be located at Salford Students’ Union. Working arrangements are hybrid. The majority of the day will be spent working on systems, and will also be a key point of contact for non-finance colleagues. The team are supported by a shared finance leadership structure operating across three Students’ Unions in Manchester. The key systems are Soldo (expenses), Approval Max (purchase orders), Square (EPOS) and Xero (accounting). The team are also working on a review of systems and may be making system changes in the coming months. There will be an opportunity in the coming months to gain experience of system and process development.
Main Responsibilities and Activities
- Accounts Payable/Receivable:
- Processing invoices, matching purchase orders, reconciling central billing statements and following up on payments.
- Ensuring credit notes have been authorised and properly coded (including VAT), following the process from purchase right through to payment.
- Sales ledger and commercial services support, including raising sales invoices, debt chasing and reconciliation of the daily sales postings between the EPOS system and accounting software.
- Expenses: Managing and processing student group & employee expense claims.
- Payroll: Preparing monthly payroll information for submission to the external payroll provider, including collating casual staff time sheets and all starter and leaver information.
- Month end processes: ensuring all ledgers are closed in line with the month end timetable, contributing to month processes such as expenditure accruals.
- Balance sheet: Reconciling key control accounts including bank accounts, sales postings, credit cards, Soldo card transactions and supplier statements monthly.
- Treasury management: Bank liaison (including updating mandates, signatory details, etc), bank reconciliations, posting of bank receipts and payments.
- Audit: Responding to audit sampling transactional related requests for information.
- Systems: Ownership of key finance system processes and contributing to the development of new finance processes.
- Other finance duties: other finance duties commensurate with the level of the role.
- Liaison with managers and staff members regarding spend against budgets, and payroll enquiries.
- Liaison with finance team members regarding process improvements and new requirements.
- Working with the Student Opportunities team to ensure a high quality finance service is offered to student groups Develop and maintain relationships with colleagues throughout the Union, University and other external partners.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
- Experience of working with finance and connected systems such as EPOS and expenses.
- Either AAT or qualified by experience in a transactional finance role.
- Previous experience of working in a transactional finance role supporting activities such as:
- Purchase ledger
- Sales ledger
- Expenses
- Balance sheet reconciliations
Skills and Abilities
- Attention to detail: accuracy in data input, ensuring correct accounting treatment for all financial transactions.
- Communication: the ability to communicate key finance processes to non-finance colleagues and offer a great finance service to colleagues and students.
- Organised: ability to manage own time effectively ensuring all key financial deadlines are met.
- Managing queries: ability to investigate and resolve queries from non-finance colleagues as they relate to the scope of the role.
- System focused: adapts easily to new systems and is able to troubleshoot system challenges and issues.
Values and Behaviours
- A demonstrable commitment to Salford SU’s values, mission and purpose.
- A strong commitment to championing equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Comfortable working in a democratic, student-led environment and being an enthusiastic advocate for student voice and representation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.