The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant and will lead a small finance team. The post holder will be responsible for the overall financial management of the charity including preparation of annual budgets and cash-flow, quarterly management accounts and annual reports, as well as ensuring the financial controls are fit for purpose and operating effectively.
The role will oversee the operational and enterprise areas of The Charleston Trust including developing new business areas for the charity while ensuring profitability and excellence in the catering, retail and visitor experience.
The job will entail reviewing the charity’s financial processes to improve efficiency and effective financial reporting and will be required to support the ongoing process of change at Charleston. Good technical skills and IT literacy will be required to ensure that all financial, ticketing, membership and enterprise systems are sufficient to deliver timely and accurate KPIs and other data for Director/CEO, staff and Trustees.
Main tasks and responsibilities
- Oversee all aspects of the financial management of the charity.
- Provide the Senior Management Team with all relevant financial information to enable them to plan effectively and control their strategic and commercial responsibilities.
- Prepare management accounts, cash flow forecasts and all other relevant financial information for presentation to the Board of Trustees and the Business & Finance Committee.
- Ensure the charity and its enterprise subsidiary conforms with all financial, charitable and other statutory responsibilities.
- Support budget holders to set and monitor budgets.
- Be responsible for putting in place and maintaining robust financial systems and controls.
- Responsibility for submission of tax and VAT returns and other matters pertaining to HMRC, Charity law, Company law, PAYE and other relevant legislation.
- Work closely with the auditors to manage the annual audit process including preparation and submission of statutory accounts.
- Work across the organisation to monitor, improve and/or retender for new financial, ticketing, sales and membership systems.
- Manage and co-ordinate the organisation’s insurance provision and work closely with the Head of Operations and Visitor Experience to ensure good value for money with major utilities and facilities contracts.
- Be an inspiring, effective and supportive line manager to all line reports.
- Manage the Finance department to ensuring a productive and professional service within and outside the organisation.
- Support the Head of Retail & Product Development and the Head Chef/Catering Manager to access, analyse and report financial information relating to their departments. Work closely with these line reports to understand visitor habits, make improvements to ensure profitability, manage costs and maintain/increase spend per head while delivering an excellent experience appropriate to Charleston’s unique heritage.
- Provide line management support for the Head of Operations & Visitor Experience in all their areas of responsibility including buildings, site and facilities maintenance, ticketing and groups management, and the management of a large team of Visitor Service Assistants and Guides.
- Support the Director/CEO to ensure the organisation works to both legal requirements and sector good practice for HR and governance.
Person Specification
Essential skills and experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA, CA or CIMA).
- Significant senior experience in managing an organisation’s finances.
- Line management experience and skills to line manage senior staff.
- Proven track record in business planning and development.
- The skills to collaborate effectively with colleagues, staff, external stakeholders, consultants, trustees, and senior managers and to present financial information in an easily understandable manner.
- The ability to adapt to new technology; exceptional IT skills across a range of platforms and software relevant to the role.
- Experience co-ordinating and setting multi-departmental budgets and producing complex cash-flows.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and prioritise effectively.
- Ability to think strategically, commercially and entrepreneurially.
- Understanding of, and preferably experience in, charity finance.
Core competencies
- Exceptional oral and written communication and presentation skills.
- An interest in the heritage sector.
- Flexible and adaptable to changing demands and new challenges.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a small team.
- Ability to mentor and supervise individuals.
- Good time management with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
Deadline for applications: 5pm on Wednesday 20 November 2019
Interviews will be held: Thursday 28 November 2019
Additional information
- Because of the rural location of Charleston, the post holder must be aware that getting to work without the use of a car involves some additional planning and commitment.
- The basic annual leave entitlement is 25 working days, excluding bank holidays.
- We offer employers contribution pension scheme (on successful completion of probation).
- The Trust has a commitment to ensure equality of opportunity for all employees and employees are required to adhere to this in their work.
- Our aim is to become a truly inclusive and diverse organisation. We welcome applicants from disabled, black, minority and ethnic communities and LGBTQ+ people.
- All positions at Charleston are offered subject to the following conditions:
- Receipt of satisfactory references
- Proof that you are legally entitled to work in the UK
- All applications received will be acknowledged. Please note that due to limited resources we are unable to give feedback to all applicants.
The Charleston Trust
Charleston is a seventeenth century Sussex farmhouse that was the home of two of the most important and influential British artists of the twentieth century - Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Their uniquely decorated house became the country retreat of a group of individuals known as the Bloomsbury group which included Vanessa Bell’s sister Virginia Woolf, the economist John Maynard Keynes and critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell. Writers Lytton Strachey, TS Eliot and EM Forster were also regular visitors.
Today, Charleston is a thriving house museum with a programme of regular exhibitions, events and festivals, a café/restaurant and retail operations. The Charleston Trust receives no public funding to support its running costs and each year is entirely dependent on self-generated income and fundraising.
Little Green Pig is a ground-breaking young people’s writing charity working in and out of schools across Brighton & Hove, East and West Sussex, delivering high-quality creative experiences to over 850 young people each year. After ten years being led by founder director Ella Burns, we are looking to recruit a new Director to help write the next chapter in our story. This is a fantastic opportunity for an exceptional leader with a passion for young people’s creativity and a commitment to their voices being heard.
Principle objectives
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Strategic management: You will drive and deliver the long-term strategy and business plan.
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Finance and operations: You will hold organisational budgets and oversee all daily operations.
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Creative programme: You will be responsible for the artistic direction of the organisation.
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Staff management: You will manage, lead and inspire our staff team.
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Communications: You will oversee our communications and build links across the region.
You will have a minimum of 3 years senior management experience in a charitable, youth, arts, education, or creative organisation. You will be a motivated leader with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and proven experience of growing a project and leading and managing a team.
Please download the application pack for full details of how to apply; in addition to a CV, we require a covering letter outlining why you want this position and how your experience meets the different areas of the person spec.
Closing date: 25th November 2019
Interview date: 2nd December 2019
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Counterculture Partnership LLP (Counterculture) is an independent law firm and business consultancy working with third sector, cultural, creative people and organisations. We are looking for an Accountant to join Counterculture, based mostly in London but with regular travel to Lewes.
This Accountant will provide support with all aspects of accounting including: robust account preparation and advise to external clients; preparation of internal accounting as required; managing workload to meet critical deadlines and provide great customer service.
Essential requirements are:
- Proven track record in accounting practice
- Most likely qualified AAT or above
- Experienced in charity accounting
- Proficient in using Xero, QBO or similar
- Accustomed to client contact as well as working on own initiative
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong general IT skills and excellent Excel skills
To apply, please click on the Apply button and attach your CV with a covering letter detailing how your experience makes you an ideal candidate for this role.
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Itad is a leading international development consultancy providing technical advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments. We have a 30-year track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people’s lives.
Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around Practice areas including Human Development Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCAS), Inclusive Growth, Resilience and Natural Resources and Markets and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.We continue to grow in size, commercial performance and professional reputation and we are increasingly recognised as a global leader with a diverse client base including international development agencies and philanthropic foundations. We have recently opened our first international office in Washington DC which reflects and supports this growth.
Our core areas of work are:
- Independent evaluation of large-scale, long-term multi-disciplinary programs, strategies and organizations, where we have over 30 years of experience;
- The design and implementation of complex, multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder M&E systems;
- Training, capacity building, and lesson learning in M&E frameworks and approaches including collaboration, learning and adapting; and
- Providing advice to organizations on program strategy and design, including theories of change, impact/uptake pathways, and Value for Money (VfM).
Practice Overview
The Health team are positioned within the Human Development Practice and oversee a dynamic and rapidly evolving portfolio. This is broadly in four thematic areas, adolescent, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health systems strengthening, global health strategy and global health security. We support solutions to knotty problems current in global health, such as tackling anti-microbial resistance, pursuing youth-led design for health, applying resilience-thinking to the continuity of SRH services in fragile states and many others. Our growing education practice focuses among other things on education reform, providing data, information and evidence to policy-makers, program architects and implementors. We deliver these expertise across a diverse client base including Dfid, UK Department of Health & Social Care, Gavi, Global Partnership for Education, the Global Fund, UNICEF, BMGF, Wellcome Trust, Public Health England, Hewlett Foundation and Elma.
The Role
We are recruiting for an experienced consultant to join the team to lead projects and programmes across the whole portfolio.They will lead and contribute to project delivery, develop and own stakeholder relationships, support the development of strong, high performing teams, contribute to business development activities and build our reputational capital and market presence.The core technical strengths of all our consultants are focused around four key areas:
- Evidence Advocate:using robust evidence to support clients and shape global debates;
- Change Agent:guiding clients in reflecting, learning and managing change;
- Project Manager: building high performing project teams that deliver quality and commercial targets;
- Trusted Advisor: building and shaping long term relationships with clients and partners that add value and deliver commercial success.
The Candidate
You will have a post-graduate degree in a relevant discipline and a proven track record in a global health area, which may fall within one or more of the following topics: health systems strengthening, global health strategy, adolescent, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and global health security and education. Experience in as we continue to develop our service offering in the US, experience with US government related project delivery would be welcomed
As an evidence advocate you will be utilising your knowledge and experience of MEL to lead and advise others in the design and implementation of complex MEL projects and workstreams. You will have demonstrated technical expertise in designing MEL systems, tools and processes for a range of clients, and designing and delivering evaluations using a range of approaches and methodologies. You have used these methods to present evidence and analysis to clients – both written and verbally – in a clear, distilled and accessible way, facilitating engagement and use.
As a change agent you will have demonstrated facilitation and communication skills and experience, conveying ideas to clients and teams in a clear and focused style, flexing your technique to suit the environment, and in a way that generates buy-in and supports learning.
As a project manager you will have a track record in managing and leading the delivery of complex projects, setting clear direction, managing risk and ensuring delivery of high quality outputs that meet commercial targets and provide value for money.
As a trusted advisor you will have a strong understanding of how our clients work, and demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with clients that generate repeat work. You will also have experience in successfully leading complex bid processes, including building and managing large teams and consortia.
You will also have a track record in the management of internal and external high-performance teams (both internal and external teams). You will be a good communicator, have empathy, be able to delegate and empower effectively and have strong organisational skills, able to work closely with technical consultants and business units to efficiently deliver results.
The salary for this role is up to £65K depending on your skills and experience. In addition, we also offer a comprehensive learning and development programme, 24 days holiday plus additional time off over Christmas, matched company pension up to 5%, and a discretionary bonus. Other benefits include Cycle to Work scheme, eyecare vouchers, weekly fruit and subsidised yoga classes in our offices.
The closing date for applications is December 6th, however, please note we will be interviewing candidates on a rolling basis.
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