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Bedford Creative Arts is seeking an efficient, proactive home-worker for this financial role, ideal for someone interested in working for the creative charity sector on a part-time basis (5 hours per week).

In this role you’ll be both strategic and hands-on, managing the financial controls for this small charity with a £350k annual turnover. You will support the Director and senior management team through your management of financial processes, policy and planning.

Supported by an Administrator handling book-keeping (GL posting, scheduling payments and raising invoices) you will produce management accounts for the senior management team and Board, and ensuring the charity reports to its key funders, including Arts Council England.

You’ll process payroll for our small team of 5 employees, taking care of liaison with HMRC as well as handling the production of annual accounts, independent examination and company filing.

Who are we looking for?

We’re looking for someone with focus, efficiency and precision to take responsibility of our company finances.

Unfazed by working mostly alone, you’ll be incredibly organised with your time and workload to ensure processes are handled in a timely and accurate fashion. Ideally, you’ll be passionate about the work that we do both as a professional arts organisation and also as a small charity based in Bedfordshire.

You’ll have experience of working with small organisations and charities, knowledgeable about the areas of financial control that you will be our expert on.

The role is an employee position for 5 hours per week, however we are open to discuss flexibility of working hours and the option of the contract being delivered as a freelance role.

We actively encourage people from a variety of backgrounds with different experiences, skills and stories to join us and influence our working practice. We are particularly keen to hear from people from backgrounds that are currently under-represented on our staff team including people from Global Majority backgrounds and candidates who self-identify as disabled, male, non-binary or trans and/or LGBTQ+.

Bedford Creative Arts is an arts charity that has been producing socially-engaged arts projects for over 40 years that explore issues of social justice, challenge the status quo and raise questions that have the potential to influence practice and policy-making. We are a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England delivering an ambitious programme of commissions for, by, and with communities across Bedfordshire.

Application deadline: 9am, Mon 30th November 2026

Interviews: Mon 7th December 2026

Terms and Conditions

• Hours of Work: 5 hours per week (1/2 day). These hours can be worked flexibly.
• Contract: This is a permanent employment contract with a 3 month probationary period. We would be open to discussing a freelance approach as an alternative to employment.
• Salary: The full-time equivalent salary for this position is £45,000 – 47,000 per annum (pro rata to 5 hours per week).
• Location: Home-working.

Benefits:

• BCA offers 25 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time employees).
• We offer a NEST pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution.
• Access to IT & equipment to enable efficient home-working can be provided.

Proof of the right to work in the UK will be required before appointment.

For details of how to apply, and to download a full Recruitment Pack and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form visit our website.