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Finance Lead: Turn your expertise into impact for young people seeking safety.
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Croydon, Greater London (Hybrid)
Greater London
London, Greater London
£40,973 - £45,199 per year
Full-time or part-time (21 - 35 hours per week (0.6 - 1.0 FTE). We're open to any hours within this range. )
Permanent

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Job description

Overview

At Young Roots, we want to see a compassionate and welcoming society for young people seeking safety. We work alongside young refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, building trusted relationships, providing practical and emotional support and promoting young people's rights and power. 

Our youth hubs and casework are transformative for young refugees, enabling young people who have fled danger, experienced traumatic journeys, and are often here alone to find community and connection, a space to be a young person, and access support to address a range of practical challenges they face. We also draw on our evidence from working every day with young refugees and asylum seekers to call for change to the laws and policies which are harming young people. 

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced finance professional to play a vital role in ensuring Young Roots can continue delivering life-changing support to young people seeking safety.

As our Finance Lead*, you'll be the go-to finance expert, keeping day-to-day operations running smoothly while translating complex financial data into accessible insights that empower our teams and leadership to make informed decisions. You'll manage everything from month-end processes and statutory accounts to cash flow forecasting and funder reporting, ensuring financial integrity through robust systems and controls.

This isn't just number-crunching – you'll be a trusted finance partner, working collaboratively across the organisation to support effective budget management, shape future initiatives, and ultimately help us maximise our impact for young refugees and asylum seekers.

The role requires proven experience in charity finance, including independently managing month-end processes, producing statutory accounts in accordance with Charity SORP, and managing grant funding. You'll need an accounting qualification (AAT Level 4, full- or part-qualified ACCA/CIMA, or equivalent by experience) and hands-on experience with accounting systems such as Xero, Sage, or QuickBooks.

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who can communicate financial information in ways that make sense to non-finance audiences, work confidently with senior stakeholders, and is motivated by supporting our mission.

We welcome applications from candidates with diverse career paths. If you've gained relevant skills through non-traditional routes or timeframes, we encourage you to apply. 

This is a permanent role offering 21-35 hours per week (0.6-1.0 FTE); we're open to any hours within this range. The role is hybrid, with two days at one of our London offices. Salary is £40,973-£45,199 per annum pro rata.

*Other organisations may call this role Finance Manager, Finance Business Partner or Financial Controller. 

How to apply

Please submit your CV and a personal statement by the closing date outlining how you would be a great fit for the role. 

Your personal statement should be no more than 800 words, answering the following questions:

  1. What is your motivation for working with Young Roots?
  2. What is your motivation for applying for this role specifically?
  3. What skills and experience would you bring that will enable you to be successful in this role?

Please ensure you refer to the minimum requirements on the person specification and provide examples to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. 

Please submit your application via CharityJobs. 

Please note that Young Roots is closed from Wednesday, 24 December 2025, and will reopen on Monday, 5 January 2026. There may be a delay in getting back to you during this time. 

No agencies, please.

Closing date: Midday on Wednesday, 7 January 2026.

Interviews: Week commencing Monday, 12 January 2026.

Young Roots recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equity and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those who face disadvantage in employment, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ individuals and people with disabilities. As an organisation that supports refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, we particularly welcome applications from people within these communities. We offer a guaranteed interview to candidates with lived experience of the asylum system and those with disabilities, where they meet the essential elements of the person specification. If aspects of the application process create barriers to you applying, or if you'd like any adjustments to the process, or an informal discussion or advice on your application, please get in touch. We would also like to alert you to organisations that support people from under-represented groups and can advise you on applying for this role - for example, Scope, Young Women’s Trust, and Experts by Experience.

Young Roots is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We take this duty very seriously.

Our work is underpinned by policies and procedures which promote safe working practices. We have a training and supervision framework that everyone is expected to comply with, along with systems for monitoring, quality assurance, and collecting service user feedback. Upon joining, you will be expected to be part of this approach to safeguard our service users.

All posts are subject to safer recruitment protocols, which include vetting checks such as enhanced criminal records and barring, scrutiny of employment history, references, and other checks.

Application resources
Application Instructions

To view the job description for the role, please see the link above.

How to apply
Please submit your CV alongside a personal statement by the closing date, within our application form (in the Quick apply link below), outlining how you would be a great fit for the role.

Your personal statement should be no more than 800 words, answering the following questions:
1. What is your motivation for working with Young Roots?
2. What is your motivation for applying for this role specifically?
3. What skills and experience would you bring that will enable you to be successful in this role?

Please ensure you refer to the minimum requirements on the person specification and provide examples to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria.

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Young Roots View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 21 - 50

Working alongside young people seeking safety - building trust, providing practical and emotional support, and promoting their rights and power.

Posted on: 19 December 2025
Closing date: 07 January 2026 at 12:00
Tags: Finance, Project Management, Operations, Accounting, Ethnic Minority / BAME, Insights, Procurement, Refugee / Immigration, Risk Management, Youth / Children, Grants, Governance / Management, Social / Support Work

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