Finance Director

About Repowering Ltd

Repowering London is an award-winning social enterprise organisation, developing clean energy for urban communities, through community-owned renewable energy, energy efficient programmes, in partnership with local authorities and residents.

As a community development organisation, we enable local communities to plan, fund, build and benefit from clean energy and energy efficiency projects across buildings.

Our vision is for every town and city in the UK to benefit from locally owned clean energy. We believe that urban buildings can be transformed into intelligent, efficient clean power hubs, providing substantial economic, social and environmental benefits.

Energy security can become the norm and inequality and fuel poverty a thing of the past.

Job purpose

We are now seeking to appoint a Finance Director who will hold overall accountability for the financial leadership of the organisation. The Finance Director reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer.

This role includes financial oversight of Repowering London’s Family of community energy co-operatives currently consisting of 8 separate London-based organisations, but soon to increase in number.

The Finance Director provides strategic leadership and operational oversight of financial and administrative activities as follows:

• Timely accurate and reliable financial reporting for all key stakeholders, including Board, Senior Leadership Team, Regulatory Authorities, Taxation Authorities, Auditors and external funders
• Ensuring robust financial controls, policies and systems are in place and have the hallmarks of integrity and consistency
• Leadership on decision support with business partners through an effective budgeting and forecasting system including financial planning, cashflow management and investment decisions
• Ensuring that the organisations Human Resources are managed effectively and in compliance with relevant laws and regulations
• Oversight of the organisation’s Information Technology to ensure that it is robust, fit for purpose and compliant with relevant laws and regulations
• Acting as Company Secretary ensuring compliance with relevant law and the requirements of Companies House and the FCA
• Act as a key partner in Team Leadership and Culture with a small team of finance and support staff to manage.

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