"Finance Manager" Jobs in Greater London
Role Outline and Purpose
On behalf of the trustees and accountable to them for providing strategic direction and day to day leadership and management of the foodbank.
This will be achieved by leading by example in upholding our values, ethos and culture by motivating staff and our wonderful volunteers, along with the Churches and others as strategic partners in successfully implementing the strategy to achieve our vision.
The role also entails leadership with building high-performing partnerships with all those able and willing to support the vision to end the need for foodbanks in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
·To develop and deliver Greenwich Foodbank’s strategic vision as a pathfinding foodbank working to eliminate food poverty in the borough and ensuring alignment with our vision, values and strategy
·Be accountable to the Greenwich Foodbank Board and work with staff, volunteers and all the key stakeholders to create the right culture and practices to uphold our values and achieve our vision
·Engage staff, volunteers, those we exist to serve and the board to translate the Greenwich Foodbank vision into operational strategies, demonstrating clear thinking and inspiring leadership and focussed on continuous improvement
·Ensure there is a an effective performance monitoring system in place to measure progress
Interpersonal Excellence
·Leads by example
·A strong sense of responsibility and accountability, demonstrating high levels of self awareness and emotional intelligence
·Able to work collaboratively and delegate well, giving and receiving feedback at all levels
·Is credible, confident and resilient, able to operate successfully at the highest level
Financial Management
·Demonstrates a good understanding of finance, budgeting, governance, strategy and legal requirements in the third sector.
·Accountable for financial decisions to ensure longer term financial security
·Demonstrates good understanding of budget and the underlying principles
·Able to use financial data to oversee the effective allocation of resources and expenditure is within budget
Person Specification
Essential Experience
- Significant proven record of achievement in a senior position within a charity/not for profit organisation.
- Experience of managing staff and working with volunteers
- Experience of business planning and development
- Financial management skills, including budgeting and delivery of cost and income targets
- Evidence of having a robust approach to governance with experience of risk management
- Evidence of having fostered senior level relationships with partner organisations
Desirable Experience
- Experience of planning and delivering fundraising strategies
- Experience of handling the media (broadcast, print and social media)
Behaviours and Competencies:
- Entrepreneurial, empathetic, proactive, inclusive and flexible
- Confident and committed to Greenwich Foodbank’s vision and our values
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Applications will be reviewed on 29th May 2024, with interviews taking place on Wednesday, 5th June 2024, on-site at Greenwich Foodbank.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Business Analyst
Remote/home working with occasional travel
£45,000 - £49,000 pa plus excellent benefits
35 hours per week
Fixed term contract for 12 months
As Business Analyst, you’ll be vital to analysing and understanding business problems and opportunities from across the charity. You will be helping to understand user and business needs, break those needs out into constituent parts, analyse multiple solutions, and support the communication and delivery of solutions to meet the user needs.
Analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills are core to this role. You will work iteratively in cross-functional teams made up of people from across the charity to bring impactful and meaningful work to life.
As a Business Analyst, you’ll be able to:
- Lead and manage investigations into business processes, functions, information flows, data structures and software development processes, using various methodical and consistent techniques.
- Deliver at pace using agile methodologies and principles.
- Define improvements to business processes, while evaluating potential solutions based on the impacts across the organisation.
- Lead, understand and communicate the big picture while working to assure the overall goal is maintained in creation of product backlogs, in addition to working at a detailed level during sprints and iterations.
- Elicit requirements using appropriate techniques considering the nature of change and established practices.
- Lead in providing solutions to real business problems through influence, facilitation, and communication.
- Define scope whilst shaping and challenging business priorities and value through collaboration.
- Assist decision makers in gathering information to make informed decisions.
An initial activity will involve working with stakeholders to understand the on-going requirements to improve how we use our CRM (Dynamics). You will:
- Liaise with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements for the continuing improvement of our CRM.
- Design and document processes and workflows within the CRM and other products/services.
- The support for stakeholders in using the CRM whilst distilling relevant information to our data team.
You should have demonstrable experience of business and systems analysis working including identification of business benefits, deconstructing user needs, business process modelling, requirements capture, prioritisation, facilitation, challenging business perspectives, sharing best practices and improving team processes and delivery and co-ordinating and leading other teams.
We are RNID. Together we’ll make life more inclusive for deaf people and those with hearing loss or tinnitus.
Our charity has been through a complete transformation, while building on the best of our past. We’ve returned to our former, much-loved name, become wholly remote working, and established a new strategy, focused on reaching the 12 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.
We are creating a radically different culture which is externally focused, curious, evidence-based, deliberate, agile, and future orientated. Our values are at the heart of what we do.
We strive to be and continue to be connected to our communities, insightful and confident in what we do and who we are, curious in everything we do and passionate about our purpose.
We champion the value of difference and equality and celebrate our diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively encourage applications from eligible candidates from BAME backgrounds or who are deaf or hard of hearing. With almost 20% of our employees having a disability we proudly hold Disability Confident Leader status and guarantee an interview for disabled applicants meeting the minimum essential criteria.
Applicants are required to submit a cover letter as part of the application process, highlighting their relevant experience, skills, and enthusiasm for the role.
Closing date: open-ended.
Are you an experienced administrator, self-motivated, and with a proven ability of successfully organising and managing a wide-ranging workload? Is doing a job that makes a difference important to you? We are looking for a responsible and competent administrator to provide a high level and timely administrative support to the work of the Ministries Team of the Methodist Church.
To be considered for this role, you will be enthusiastic and hardworking, with good time management and organisation skills. You should possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The ability to engage with and use effectively various web based software tools is desirable. Logistics and event management experience is also beneficial for this role.
Our Culture, Values and Benefits
Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.
We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme with pensions matched up to 8%.
The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups.
If you require reasonable adjustments to made at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know
Closing Date: Friday 31st of May 2024
Interview Date: Wednesday 13th of June 2024 in London
The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God's love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Executive Director
We have an exciting opportunity for an Executive Director to lead a small charity who work within the Jewish community to make it more inclusive of LGBT+ people through education, consultancy and training.
Position: Executive Director
Location: London (King Cross) / Hybrid (minimum one day a week in the office)
Salary: FTE £47,000 to £53,000 per annum depending on experience
Hours: 40 hours flexitime, including a paid hour for lunch each working day. Core hours are 10am-4pm. Will seriously consider applicants requesting 4 days per week or a job-share
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: Noon on Friday 7 June
Interview Dates: Friday 14 June (1st round, online), Monday 24 June (final round, in person)
About the role:
As Executive Director you will lead a small team – Head of Education (full time), Head of Community Life (full time) and Programme and Volunteer Officer (full time), working with a charity that has a vision of a world where no one is forced to choose between their LGBT+ and Jewish identity.
As the only charity doing this in the UK, the charity works in partnership with communities to identify their goals, then tailor support so they can achieve them.
Key responsibilities of the Executive Director:
- Delivering the organisation’s priorities as laid out in the 2022-2027 strategy
- Ensuring financial sustainability through devising and executing a fundraising strategy and carefully managing the organisational budget
- Sensitive, compassionate leadership and management of the professional team
- Working in close partnership with the Board of Trustees
- Effective accounting and governance
- Monitoring and managing risk via the risk register and seeking legal advice where necessary
- Managing key stakeholders both internal (e.g. volunteers) and external (e.g. communal partners, the wider LGBT+ sector)
- Being the primary spokesperson and ambassador for the charity
About you:
- The ability to speak and write confidently and authentically about LGBT+ issues
- Strategic leadership, planning and decision-making experience in a commercial, not-for-profit or public service setting
- Line management experience, including the ability to inspire and empower a staff team
- Understanding of the charity and voluntary sector, including the funding environment in which charities operate
- Highly effective relationship-builder across multiple arenas (internal stakeholders, external partners, funders etc)
- Knowledge and experience of strategic planning and business development, including operational planning and delivery management
- Knowledge and working experience of organisational finance and budget planning cycles
- Experience working with, and preferably in, the UK Jewish community
- Positive, problem-solving and solutions-oriented
Although not essential it would also be beneficial if you have some of the following skills / experience:
- Delivering training or education in a Jewish setting
- Experience in fundraising
- Understand and experience in print, social and broadcast media
- Experience working with the LGBT+ community
- Experience in using CRMs such as Salesforce
The charity welcomes and encourages applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We particularly welcome applicants with first-hand knowledge and understanding of the experiences and needs of Jewish LGBT+ people.
Other roles you may have experience of could include: CEO, Chief Exec, Chief Executive, Chief Executive Officer, COO, Director of Fundraising, Head of Operations, Chief Exec, Director, Head of, Senior Executive, Managing Director, MD, Manager, Board Member, Chair of the Board.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
Job title: Head of Development, The Social Change Nest
Location: Hybrid/attendance at Kings Cross office, London 2days/week minimum
Reporting To: CEO
Contract: Full time, permanent
Salary: £40,000-£50,000
Date Closes: Friday 31st May
Role Purpose:
This is a great opportunity to make a significant impact on hundreds of civil society, social movements and community groups around the world, driving funding to where it is needed most. The Head of Development will join the central team, reporting to the CEO and will be responsible for forging relationships with funders, as well as identifying opportunities to engage with local community groups.
They will share the Social Change Nest’s ambitions to transform funding for grass roots organisations and coalitions by reimagining fundraising, removing structural barriers and encouraging institutional funders to support community interests. They will oversee the Marketing, Communications & Development Assistant and one other team member and will collaborate with Risk, Compliance and the Innovation Managers. This is a busy and exhilarating role with opportunity to grow and develop. We are planning to increase the size of the team over the next year.
About The Social Change Nest
At The Social Change Nest, we’re radically transforming the funding landscape. We nurture grassroots groups and enable funders to support frontline social action by offering fiscal hosting, grant management, grant distribution and fund management services. We currently support over 500 community groups across the UK and abroad addressing climate to housing, wellbeing and animal rights. We are pioneering fiscal hosting in the UK and have distributed grants to groups that otherwise would not have had access to the opportunity. Since our inception we have ensured over £23m has got safely into the hands that need it.
We have a 5 year strategy for scaling, innovating and supporting more civil society both in the UK and abroad. Over the next 12 months we are aiming to raise a significant capital investment, secure our income streams, launch 2 new game changing products and expand into Europe.
The Social Change Nest is part of the Social Change Group. As a group we have been certified as a BCorp business, Disability Confident Employer, and an accredited Living Wage Employer. In addition, we were listed as one of the top social enterprises in the UK in the SE100 for the last three years. Underpinned by our values of collaboration, curiosity, courage, and creativity we believe relationships are the glue that holds us all together and we are proud of our culture.
You’ll be joining a close-knit team, supported and developed to be the best you can be. We believe that every member of our team brings a unique perspective from their experiences and abilities and we encourage everyone to be a curious soul about how we can improve everything we do, from how we interact as a team to how we deliver for our clients and communities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build strong rapport with clients and community groups to ensure effective implementation of our strategy, supporting the team responsible for project delivery.
- Identify and secure new funding opportunities with clients, creating tailored proposals to appeal to funder appetite and needs.
- Oversee and contribute to external communications and marketing campaigns.
- Oversee the business development pipeline, ensuring its effectiveness and alignment with our strategic goals.
- Deliver high-quality bid proposals and pitch documents to support business growth.
- Develop and implement client management and engagement strategies, including our philanthropic networks, enhancing operational relationships and value.
- Grow new strategic partnerships with civil society and local community groups and identify their funding requirements, ensuring optimum communication with those grass roots groups.
- Analyse and present HubSpot data to inform strategic decisions and refine our offering.
- Manage budgeting processes and prepare essential documentation for pitches and contracts.
- Be an ambassador for the Social Change Nest, representing the business at industry conferences, events and workshops and grow strategic partnerships.
- Champion the maintenance and improvement of our CRM system, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
- Line manage 2 team members; Marketing, Communications & Development Assistant and one other
Skills and Experience:
Essential:
- 4-5 years in a business development, sales or client facing role.
- Proven business development expertise with a track record of winning new business and able to apply these skills to enhance our business development strategies.
- Able to use your knowledge and skills to identify and seize opportunities for growth through partnerships, projects and clients.
- A solid understanding of the philanthropic and grant-making sectors in order to enrich our strategies and client interactions.
- Numerate and adept at analysing data to derive insights that guide business planning and strategy.
- Outstanding customer service skills, both proactive and reactive. Your reliability, trustworthiness, and ability to respond to our clients’ needs set you apart.
- Excellent pitch and bid-writing skills with an ability to craft compelling proposals that resonate with our target audience, including design and pricing.
- Capable of anticipating and evaluating the potential risks and returns of projects and able to assess risk as part of the process.
- Experience of managing complex work strands and coordinating across different teams demonstrating your leadership skills and strategic awareness.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a confident communicator. You excel in bringing people together to achieve shared objectives.
- An advocate of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Desirable:
- A good understanding of the philanthropic and grant-making sectors in the UK, Europe and the USA
- Experience of accessing responsible finance opportunities for charities or social enterprises
- A demonstrable commitment to serving under represented groups in the UK or abroad.
Sustrans Director, London
£70,905 per annum plus a London Weighting allowance of £4,530 pa
(Ref: SUS4242)
37.5 hours per week – happy to talk flexible working
Base: London – Hybrid - 2 days in office, 3 WFH
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us, as a Director for London, a role where you can influence real change across the city.
Our vision has never been more relevant, join us and play a pivotal role, working with partners, to make London a happier healthier city for everyone.
About the role
As the Director for London, you will be accountable to the Chief Operating Officer for the overall strategic direction and performance of the charity in London, contributing to Sustrans-wide strategic development, as a member of Sustrans’ senior leadership team.
Managing 4 direct reports from multi-disciplinary teams across the city, you will manage resources, providing effective, positive leadership to the heads of teams, in order to deliver Sustrans’ strategy and business plan priorities and initiatives across London.
Strengthening our strategic relationships with key organisations and people, such as Transport for London (TfL), local authorities, the Mayor’s Office and politicians, you will positively influence decision-makers in the field of sustainable transport.
You will be responsible for income generation through business development, identifying new areas of funding, guiding your teams to do the same. You will build and manage relationships with key funding bodies and partners in order to secure funds for project delivery and implementation and to help catalyse change in London.
This role will require travel and work at locations as necessary to undertake projects on behalf of Sustrans. Candidates should be based in or close to London, with 2-3 days per week in our London Hub, based in Brixton.
Sustrans adds value to every project it supports, through the meaningful partnerships forged with local authorities and community groups, and as an independent charity stakeholder with expertise in community engagement, behaviour change and design. More information can be found here about us and our innovative projects:
Lambeth LTN
Riverside homelessness project
About you
You will have set strategic direction previously and have good business acumen and the ability to evidence a collaborative working approach. This will enable you to effectively engage with external stakeholders and influence key decision makers. Internally, your strategy and clear direction will gain confidence from your team, enthusing them and creating a space where they generate innovative ideas, creating a high performing team. As an experienced senior leader you will be able to evidence motivating and managing multi-disciplinary teams.
A skilled communicator, you will be experienced in negotiations; with the ability chair complex meetings and deliver presentations that are engaging to a range of stakeholders, such as politicians, funding bodies and local authorities.
We are looking for someone who is values driven and passionate about advocating for sustainable transport. Our ideal candidate will have significant experience of working with TfL and/or local government in London in sustainable transport, urban development or an associated industry.
Additional information
Closing date for the receipt of applications is 23:59, 19th May 2024.
Interviews will take place via MS Teams during the week 27th May 2024
To apply, please attach a supporting statement and an up to date CV.
What we offer
In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewarding working environment.
Wellbeing
· 28 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working
· Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff)
· Staff volunteer days
· 24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service
· We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to work schemes
Financial
- Group Personal Pension scheme with a 6% or 7% of basic salary contribution being matched by Sustrans
- Bike, computer and season ticket loans
- Discount benefits
- London Weighting Allowance of £4,530 for all those living within a London Borough (32 local authority districts plus the City of London)
- Death in Service benefit – 3 x annual Salary
Family Friendly
· Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
· Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday)
About Sustrans
At Sustrans you'll be part of a movement to make it easier for everyone to walk, wheel and cycle.
We're all here to change things! You’ll be part of an incredible community of talented, passionate, creative, problem solvers all working together to change things for the better. We act locally and think big - we have a vision of a society where the way we travel creates healthier places and happier lives for everyone.
You'll be questioning the status quo and daring to imagine a different world. You'll work on exciting, impactful projects that will stretch and empower you and you'll be rewarded by seeing the difference you make to people, communities and the planet.
We believe including everyone is central to who we are and what we want to achieve, we welcome difference and pride ourselves on creating a culture where you can be yourself andwhere your wellness is supported.
You'll have the opportunity to make friends for life and work with a team that is incredibly flexible, supportive, ethical and fun.