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Hubbub is an award-winning environmental charity that’s all about inspiring action that’s good for the environment and for everyone. We bring businesses, organisations, local authorities, and community groups together to create campaigns that make it easier and more possible for all of us to make choices that are good for the environment.

Director of Finance

Circa £82,000

Hybrid – London

Permanent, 35 hours p/w preferred. Open to considering part-time.

This a rare and exciting opportunity to join Hubbub’s leadership team. Our new Director of Finance will take a proactive role in ensuring the continued financial strength of the organisation, following a period of significant growth.

You’ll be responsible for leading the finance team and providing expert financial and business advice to the team and boards. You’ll be the one making sure that financial implications are fully considered in all strategic decision-making.

You’ll always be seeking to improve the usefulness of the information you provide and the impact of your insights. Taking pride in the accuracy and effectiveness of the systems you maintain to accurately measure financial performance and minimise risk will be critical to the success of this role.

The ideal candidate will be highly analytical, strategic, and responsive to a fast-paced environment, you will enjoy working organisation-wide and having input to high level decisions, a great collaborator with a sense of purpose and fun.

The successful candidate will be a fully qualified accountant and will also bring: 

- Outstanding track record of leading highly effective teams – at Director or Head of level with a passion for leading and enabling teams to thrive and develop. 

- Significant experience of strategic financial planning and resource management. 

- Knowledge of charity specific finance, including the charities SORP and managing restricted and unrestricted funds. 

- Brilliant communication and influencing skills with the ability to bring financial concepts and issues to life for non-financial colleagues.

- Passion for environmental issues and alignment with Hubbub’s values

If you have the skills, drive, and experience to join our highly regarded organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Hubbub is committed to diversifying the background of its workforce and welcomes applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief, or disability. 

For further information please review the appointment brief. Applications should be made via the Prospectus website.

Deadline for applications: 21st April 2024

Preliminary Interview with Prospectus (Online): w/c 29th April

Interview with Hubbub (In Person): 10th – 17th May

Finance and Operations Manager - 4 or 5 days a week - Fully remote - one year contract

An exciting opportunity has come up to work for a circa £1million turnover association. This is a newly created role, where you will be working very closely with reporting to the CEO.

This is a fully remote role, offering a salary between £40,000 - £45,000 per annum with 30% non contributory pension. My client is open to candidates looking to work 4 days a week, where the salary will be prorated.

This is a very hands-on Finance role overseeing the HR and the IT infrastructure. The role provides support to the Board ensuring the organisation is charity compliant in all its work. The organisation has grown rapidly recently, receiving a number of grants, and this role will help provide assurance regarding their administration and on reporting.

Key duties and responsibilities will include:

• Maintain a suitable business planning model covering long term cash flow forecasts
• Ensure annual Statutory Accounts are completed in adherence with UK accounting standards
• Develop and maintain adequate financial control systems and procedures
• Develop an effective IT strategy and ensure service levels are set and maintained with external IT suppliers
• Ensure that the organisation complies to relevant regulations for data protection and data security
• Day-to-day oversight of the finance function
• Support project officers with grant management and reporting
• Produce monthly management accounts and prepare the finance part of the annual report
• Main contact for accountants who audit and lead on preparing required documents
• Ensure processes are in place for payroll, expenses, assets, issuing of invoices, purchases
• Work with colleagues to produce detailed annual budgets and oversee financial planning for the organisation
• Oversee recruitment processes including advertising, interviewing, issuing contracts etc. for staff and contractors
• Lead on the development and implementation of technology solutions across the National Landscapes Association
• Working with colleagues and the Chief Executive to set strategic targets and develop an annual business plan

Candidates applying for this role must have the following:

• A recognised CCAB qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) or very strong QBE candidates
• Very strong experience in Charity SORP
• Experience of implementing financial controls, policies and procedures to ensure excellent service delivery
• Experience in financial planning and reporting.
• Experience of preparing financial business plans, modelling scenarios and carrying out sensitivity analysis and stress tests
• Track record of delivering on a range of other corporate support services such as IT, HR and Governance in addition to financial responsibilities would be an advantage
• Managing and supporting junior finance staff
• Working with Xero or a similar accounting software (desirable)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills at all levels
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills with the ability to multi-task

This role will be closing on 23^rd April, 2024.

First round interviews held over MSTeams w/c 22nd April

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Your new company
Working for a world-leading geoscience charity based in Central London. The organisation has a membership following of 12,000, many of whom are Chartered Scientists and Geologists who are experts in their field. The finance team is relatively small and made up of 4 people, therefore an enthusiastic individual who is extremely collaborative and willing to get involved in various areas, would be well suited.

Your new role

• Reporting to the Financial Controller and supporting them in the annual budgeting process, including gathering data from budget holders and leading meetings.
• Providing support for the annual audit process, working to tight deadlines and delivering information to auditors.
• Posting month-end journals, accruals and prepayments. As well as performing bank and control account reconciliations.
• Working with the FC to produce monthly management accounts.
• Identifying and recording VAT accurately.
• Assisting in developing and implementing procedure changes in parallel with the implementation of their new Dynamics 365 CRM system.
• Assisting the FC in the management of fixed-term cash deposits, monitoring investment returns and forecasting cash flow.

What you'll need to succeed

• Intermediate excel skills - pivot tables and v lookups are a must!
• A part-qualified accountant who is highly enthusiastic, energetic and proactive.
• Strong management accounts experience.
• Strong experience with bank reconciliations and double-entry.
• Highly communicative and personable.

What you'll get in return

• 10% employer pension contribution.
• 25 days of annual leave (increasing with length of service).
• Study package.
• Season ticket loan.
• + more

What you need to do now
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Goodman Masson are delighted to be partnered with an impressive UN-backed, international membership organisation on their search for an Accounts Receivable Lead.

What is the role?

Reporting into the Head of Transactions, you would be solely responsible for Accounts Receivable. Main responsibilities include:

• Taking ownership of the end-to-end accounts receivable process
• Leading on the invoicing process for membership renewals; planning execution of send-outs and managing queries
• Managing all invoicing and credit collection from a variety of debtors
• Running a high volume AR inbox, proactively and promptly resolving queries
• Liaising with internal stakeholders in country offices to resolve queries and chase debtors
• Other ad-hoc duties as requires

What do you need to succeed?

• At least two years of accounts receivable experience, exposure to this in a membership environment would be beneficial
• Confidence working autonomously & taking ownership of the AR process
• Experience with a variety of accounting software & confidence working with Excel
• Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.