Finance Manager - Part Time (24 hours per week) | 50-60K FTE (30-36K Pro Rata) | Permanent | London

For a fantastic community transport charity, we are recruiting their new part-time Finance Manager. This role will be contracted to 24 hours per week and will report directly to the CEO to oversee the day-to-day Finance function, management accounting and statutory financial accounts. The Finance Manager will manage a small Finance and Payroll team.

Main Duties:

• Day-to-day financial management including reporting, forecasting, annual accounts, and audit
• All financial accounting including payments, and credit control
• Management and development of a small Finance and Payroll team
• Partner with the CEO and SLT to produce and implement robust financial reporting and planning processes
• Work with CEO on the development of investment appraisals and business cases for new business
• Partner Trustees, Chair of Audit Committee, and a range of external stakeholders including banks, auditors, and legal firms

Person Specification:

• Qualified accountant with experience of managing small multi-functional teams
• VAT knowledge and experience
• Extensive experience of regulatory frameworks including VAT, HMRC, Payroll and returns
• Experience of SORP and in preparing charity annual statutory accounts and management of the annual audit
• Experience of Governance, insurance and working with Trustees, regulators, and funders
• Experience of cash flow forecasting, annual budgeting, and payroll knowledge
• Strong Excel and Sage experience

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Finance Manager

Permanent Role

£50,000 - £55,000

Hybrid Working

Office in Bromley

Reporting into the Director of Finance & Resources.

Finance Team of 4

The client is looking for the successful person to be able to start at the beginning of December for handover.

A Growing Charity, with income of £4 million is seeking a Qualified Accountant to lead its Day 2 Day finance function

Experience of working within a charitable organisation would be hugely beneficial.

Main Duties & Key Responsibilities:

The Finance Manager leads the Finance function and is responsible for finance operations, financial accounting and reporting, financial management and control, financial planning & analysis and Treasury.

Supported by a team of 2

You will be a qualified accountant, with excellent financial accounting skills and experience of providing support and collaborating with other teams. You will have sound knowledge and experience of statutory accounts preparation and ideally you will have experience with the charity sector

Responsibilities include:

Main Responsibilities

1. Operational Finance – AP/AR, banking, expenses, payroll & pensions etc.
2. Month end – Management accounts with analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, journals, accruals, prepayments etc.
3. Tax – VAT, Corporation tax, PAYE / NI etc.
4. Financial Planning & Analysis – Forecasting, budgeting, ad hoc analysis.
5. Year end – Statutory accounts (SORP), external audits
6. Business Partnering – Supporting national network
7. External reporting - Assisting with compilation of finance plans and business cases
8. Finance System Management
9. Finance Controls and Processes

Essential requirements:

Accounting Qualification

Charity Sector Experience

This is a great opportunity for a Head of Finance to work for a growing membership body. The organisation is undergoing a significant strategic review and the Head of Finance will be working closely with the CEO in delivering changes across the organisation.

Client Details

The Membership Body has over 10,000 members worldwide and is a global leader in training, education and world class qualifications. The organisation has gone through significant growth in the last five years and is seeking to expand its operations overseas, this will require an experienced Head of Finance to support this change.

Description

As the Head of Finance your responsibilities include:

• Taking the lead all aspects of Finance: Statutory Accounts; Monthly Management Accounts; Cash Flow; Controls, Policies, and Procedures; Financial Compliance and Appraisal; Finance Training; Business Partnering and working with the Senior Management Team.
• Manage the Budgeting process in an efficient and consultative manner and deliver the operational budgets on time, presenting this to managers or committees as required.
• Working with Heads of Services to ensure effective Budgetary Management.
• Leading the organisation across all financial matters.

Profile

The organisation, based in London, are looking for an aspirations individual who firmly believes in the values and aims of the organisation. The Finance team need a qualified accountant with strong management experience to help lead the organisation through challenges and opportunities.

You will need to have good all-round accounting skills, with the ability to produce Year-End and Management Accounts. Excellent communication skills are a must, and you should be able to effectively partner with a wide-range of senior financial and non-financial stakeholders.

Job Offer

£55,000-£65,000 + Excellent benefits

Job purpose and background

Are you passionate about the environment and sustainability? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment? This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior HR Business Partner to shape, influence, and support the delivery of strategy and plans.

As the Senior HR Business Partner, you will work closely with your department to influence and guide leadership teams on people-related topics. You will apply latest thinking and best practice to provide strategic and tactical consultation and guidance that optimises people practices and processes, structures, and culture. Reporting into the Global Director of HR and People Development, you will be part of a supportive CDP people team and will work with a large degree of autonomy.

About the People Team

CDP’s HR team is a growing, global and high performing team who enjoy working together, building strong relationships across the organisation to deliver consistent HR services to our stakeholders. You will join us as we prepare to launch our strategy to 2025 designed to support the significant growth in CDP. The focus of the strategy is on developing and empowering CDP’s People.

Key responsibilities include:

You will partner with Function Leadership teams to drive organisational performance by providing strategic and operational HR guidance across a range of people-focused areas.

Business Partnering

• Provide strategic people subject matter expertise to the leadership team
• Partner and influence leaders to ensure people-informed decisions are made
• Develop and deliver a function people plan which supports CDP’s strategic priorities
• Drive effective organisation design and strategic workforce planning
• Lead on organisation restructuring activities as required to improve clarity of roles
• Lead on the continuous improvement of performance management and talent management across the function, embedding ED&I into practices and processes
• Partner leaders on strategic and tactical compensation- and reward-related decisions
• Influence leadership on the prioritisation of employee engagement and communications
• Coach and partner leaders on people-related issues
• Support the embedding of People policies and processes within the Function so that they are effectively carried out
• Identify desired culture and collaborate with teams on delivering change
• Support the function with organisational change activity

Functional HR

• Contribute to the development and delivery of the people strategy
• Work closely with the Global Director and wider people team to ensure an aligned and cohesive people experience across CDP globally
• Identify opportunities to streamline people processes to improve their adoption, using feedback and insights
• Work with the people team to successfully deliver key people initiatives and processes to drive performance (HR, L&D, Internal Comms etc.)

You will have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria:

• CIPD qualified and/or membership
• A demonstrated understanding across the broad range of HR areas
• A strong track record as a HR Business Partner
• Interpersonal savvy and a collaborative leadership style
• Ability to influence others into action and to think creatively about solutions.
• Persuasive advisor, comfortable in interacting with senior and executive management in complex global matrix organisations
• Strong communication skills at all levels with ability to build strong relationships
• Good judgement with ability to balance organisational and people needs
• An engagement and innovation presentation style and facilitation skills
• A demonstrated ability to translate strategy into tangible action
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent organisation and project management skills
• Experience of delivering and supporting organisation change with a strong knowledge and understanding of employment law in relation to change management activities

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a global, matrix organisation
• Exposure to overseas legal environments (e.g APAC, North America, Europe) would be helpful but not essential

This is a full time role based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Global Director of HR and People Development

Salary and benefits: £50,000 - £55,000 per annum, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, Training and development, Flexible working opportunities and other benefits.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We cannot sponsor this role.

Before you apply

We’ll only use the information you provide to process your application. By uploading your CV and covering letter, you are permitting CDP to use the information you have provided for recruitment purposes.

How to apply:

Please visit our website to upload your CV and a covering letter as an additional document setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages. The deadline is midnight on 7th December 2021.

The Baobab Centre

The Baobab Centre provides rehabilitation support to young asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced human rights abuses. Baobab provides psychotherapy, casework and advocacy as well as a wider range of community activities. We are seeking a Finance Manager to support the running of the organisation and to help our team support young asylum seekers and refugees in London. 

Job Purpose:

• Day to day finance management of the organisation 
• Prepare, develop and analyse management accounting information
• Finance planning, budgeting, forecasting and annual accounts
• Provide high quality support service to the Operations Team
• Work 14 hours across a month (i.e. available a few hours a week not in two complete days). On some months there is the possibility of a few extra hours if necessary.

Duties and responsibilities

• Production of monthly management accounts
• Analysing variances and exploring potential problems with Operations Manager and Finance Committee
• Making appropriate recommendations and advising of the impact of financial changes on the charity
• Preparation of annual budgets (including aspirational) and producing regular reforecasts against the budget
• Improving the systems surrounding all aspects of the charity's budgets, forecasts and business planning
• Shared responsibility with the Operations Manager for the annual audit/examination and referral to independent examiner. 
• Providing financial support to the fundraising team, including information for funding applications and reports.
• Support the Finance Administrator with any queries regarding payroll and the day to day finance postings in Quickbooks.
• Support the Operations Team in reviewing the financial policies and procedures.
• Preparing monthly accounts for the monthly Finance Committee Meetings (held in the evening).

Person specification

Accounting:

• A fully qualified accountant with a thorough practical understanding of Finance Management including management accounting principles and techniques as well as an understanding of charity accounting principles.
• Experience of producing annual accounts and working with Independent Examiners. 
• High degree of communication skills, particularly attuned to working well with non-finance professionals.
• First-hand experience of planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Experience working in fast moving environment providing accurate and timely information to a high standard.
• Experience and understanding of charity accounts.
• Experience with general finance management.

Charity Experience and Interest

• Demonstrable interest in one or several of: human rights work, mental health, refugees and asylum seekers, and young people separated from their families.
• Ideally with experience of working with unaccompanied refugees and asylum seekers. 
• Demonstrable experience working with people from different culture and backgrounds.
• Ability to work flexibly with an understanding of the holistic functioning of the charity.

Please apply using our application form, select 'Apply with CharityJob'. We will not read CVs.

Job Title: Head of Finance

Hours: Part-time / 24 hours a week

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 FTE depending on experience  

Location: Greenford / hybrid working (1-2 days in office per week)

We are working in partnership with a medium-sized organisation the provides safe, accessible and affordable community transport. They are seeking a part-time Head of Finance to oversee the finance function across the whole group.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate:

• Recognised professional finance or accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Significant experience at managerial level in a complex organisation, ideally within a charitable setting
• Extensive VAT knowledge and experience
• Significant senior stakeholder engagement, both internally and externally
• Ability to work under pressure, flexible in attitude, organised and not daunted by deadlines

You will be a qualified accountant who is driven and well organised, with a proven track record in delivering hands-on, high quality, financial and management reports. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, experience of line management and an ability to look forward and think strategically in a business context will be essential.

For more information, please contact Adam Stacey, Executive Director, Charisma Charity Recruitment.

Applications should be submitted through the Charisma website and include your CV and supporting statement.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or other category protected by law.

Closing date: 3 December

Interview: 9 December

However, due to the nature of the role we are reviewing applications as they come in, so please apply as soon as possible as the role may be closed early if a suitable candidate is found

Head of Donor Finance: up to £63,500 + Bonus and Benefits

On behalf of a renowned global healthcare organisation, we're recruiting a Head of Donor Finance to report to the Global Financial Controller and partner with the Donor, Programme Design and Development, Giving and Fundraising Teams and International Operations. The Head of Donor Finance is a key role which will lead a team to manage the fundraising and donor funded project life cycle. This role will also oversee the commercial cost proposal and bid process as well as the donor reporting, and donor audit process.

Main Duties:

• Lead, motivate and manage the Donor Finance Team
• Act as key business partner to the Exec, Donor, Compliance, Programme Design, Fundraising and Global Operations teams
• Support full project life cycle to country programmes, regional teams, and donor teams
• Oversee cost proposal development process, bid commerciality, performance of new business development functions and new business KPIs and metrics
• Oversee the Donor reporting and accounting function including cashflow forecasts, project finance reports, deferred and accrued income balances and performance related pay
• Ensure all project donor audits across EU and USAID are compliant and that the year-ed analysis is robust and included in statutory accounts
• Work closely with the Group Financial Controller to improve processes, procedures, and support business growth

Person Specification:

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA) with significant experience of managing restricted funds/ projects reporting and accounting teams.
• Significant experience with USAID, FCDO and EU
• Strong staff management experience
• Multi-currency reporting and accounting experience
• Ideally Sun and Vision experience
• SORP and NGO experience
• Commercial bids, pricing, and ROI experience

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MLC Partners are working with one of the leading names in the international development sector to recruit their new Head of Donor Finance. Having recently gone through a period of change and transformation, this is a fantastic time to join an organisation with a high-calibre team and a culture of personal development.

Main responsibilities of the role are:

• Lead and develop a team of 11 to ensure that timely financial reports and analysis is delivered to SMT.
• Business partner with three directors across the organisation and manage the annual budget for head office.
• Work with donor leads to analyse contracts which have been escalated for senior assessment, specifically focussing on risk reduction from performance based donor payments.
• Review key reports and proposals over a threshold value, ensuring tight financial controls are in place.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a qualified accountant with experience working in the international development sector, whether from the delivery side or auditing.
• Demonstrate excellent knowledge around donor finance requirements.
• Have excellent people management skills, managing the competing demands of a hands on role with day to day management.
• Ideally have experience of USAID and other donors.

Although not an exhaustive list, this would be an excellent role for someone coming from a donor assurance / audit function in a major accounting firm or a Head of / FC in a Small-Medium sized INGO.

The position will likely be filled before the closing date, so please don’t delay in applying.

For more information, please contact Jamie Elliott at MLC Partners.

Regional Finance Analyst (French Speaking) £40,000 - £45,000 + Benefits

On behalf of a large international NGO, we are recruiting a French-speaking Regional Finance Analyst to be a key member of the West and Central Africa Team leading the provision of robust and timely financial reporting. Reporting to the Regional Finance Director, this role will provide finance business partnering and capacity building with regional operations and finance teams, as well as financial analysis and reporting, statutory financial accounting and grants and Donor audit and compliance work.

Main Duties:

• Review monthly performance of country programmes and liaise with regional teams on key queries and variances
• Review country programme budgeting and forecasting as well as balance sheet reconciliations and discrepancies
• Review all cash requests and ensure group accounting compliance is adhered to
• Work with global accounting team over monthly inter-company, deferred income, and stock accounting
• Work with country programmes to build finance capacity and understand training requirements
• Review project budget proposals and work with country teams to audit projects and ensure they are closed down

Person Specification:

• Fluency in French, with excellent written and spoken French language skills
• Qualified ACCA, ACA or CIMA or Part Qualified and actively studying
• Track-record of finance business partnering stakeholders and building capacity
• Strong experience of presenting analysis and data to different audiences
• Financial and management reporting experience
• Ability to travel up to 4 times per year to the global offices
• Strong MS Excel skills are essential

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Accountability is a well-established accountancy practice in North London that provides a range of exceptional outsourced accounting and advisory services to Charities and not-for-profit organisations. Due to continuous growth, we are now looking for a Finance Manager to join our busy yet friendly and relaxed office.

This position is available immediately and is likely to attract someone who has strong accounting skills with experience of working either in charities or accountancy practice.

As a Finance Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Managing a portfolio of clients where we provide a range of outsourced accounting services. Building a solid understanding of clients’ activities and budgets, you will perform a wide range of tasks to ensure that a high quality service is delivered. 
• Preparing/ reviewing management accounts, budgets/ cashflows, VAT returns, Year-end statutory accounts, Audit schedules for auditors and ensuring all tasks are completed within set deadlines.
• Review bookkeeping, payroll, payment runs and month-end control accounts reconciliations. 

Additionally, you’ll help to develop administrative and communication protocols to support our client’s organisational systems.

As part of your role, you will be required to travel to clients’ sites within London.

If you’re a hardworking accountant with strong Sage/ QuickBooks/ Xero experience, this is a brilliant opportunity to develop a rewarding career.

To be considered, you must have:

• at least 3 years’ Accountancy experience in Bookkeeping with Sage, QuickBooks, Xero software, either working in charities or accounting practice
• An excellent level of IT literacy, including MS Excel and Word
• Excellent communication skills
• Payroll and VAT experience

Proactive and organised, as a Finance Manager , you must be adaptable and willing to learn. Strong attention to detail and great prioritisation abilities are also key.

A key role at the heart of Bromley’s Voluntary Sector

Community House in Bromley Town Centre is home to 17 voluntary organisations in the Borough. On any given working day, you’ll find it busy with paid and volunteer staff, conference and training events and the public calling in for advice on all kinds of topics or just visiting our fabulous Café.

As Finance Officer you will be responsible for the effective day to day management of all the financial activities of community house including payments and invoicing plus supporting the Business Manager and our volunteers in their day to day activities.

You will need excellent organisational, numeracy and literacy skills plus a good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and ideally QuickBooks to enable you to work within our environment where multi-tasking is the norm!

Start Network has an exciting opportunity for a talented senior finance professional to join our team as Head of Finance. This new role will lead our finance team, shaping our finance systems to respond to the growing needs of a dynamic organisation. 

With a recognised finance qualification and experience in a senior finance role, you will be responsible for leading our finance function, ensuring it is a trusted partner delivering an exceptional financial service to internal and external stakeholders. You will identify and adapt best practice and innovation from within the sector to enable the Start Network to meet its needs as we evolve and grow. You will ensure that we are well positioned to take on additional grant funding and develop new and innovative financial products. As a values-based, innovative organisation changing the humanitarian sector, we are looking for unique individual who shares our values and has experience within the charity sector with grant management. 

If this opportunity excites you and you meet the requirements set out in the Job Description, then we'd love to hear from you!

The role is based in London and applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK. In line with our values and global reach, candidates from the BAME community are highly encouraged. 

We reserve the right to close applications early if we receive a satisfactory number of applications.

ABOUT START NETWORK

Start Network is made up of more than 50 aid agencies across five continents. Together, our aim is to transform humanitarian action through innovation, fast funding, early action, and localisation. We're tackling what we believe are the biggest systemic problems that the sector faces. Problems including slow and reactive funding, centralised decision-making, and an aversion to change mean that people affected by crises around the world do not receive the best help fast enough, and needless suffering results.

We have grown and diversified our membership over the past 10 years. We are now set to evolve into a decentralised “network of networks” by 2025. We are currently working with five national and regional networks (hubs) in Pakistan, DRC, Guatemala, India, and the Pacific. They are developing locally owned ways of anticipating and responding to humanitarian crises. We aim to support the emergence and development of further Hubs in the coming years. Our ultimate ambition is to devolve leadership, membership, programming, and decision making to the hubs, while the UK team transitions to provide services of support.

We are committed to protecting people, particularly children, at-risk adults and affected populations from any harm that may be caused due to their encountering the Start Network as well as responding effectively should any harm occur. We are also committed to safeguarding staff from any forms of bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and abuse of power as outlined in the Dignity at Work policy.

We embrace diversity, promote equality of opportunity and eliminate unlawful discrimination. We are an equal opportunities employer and treat every application on merit alone. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC), and LGBT+ and non-binary candidates. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet our essential selection criteria (see person profile).

Our roles are open to discussion about flexible working. While our team is office based, home working is part of our culture. For part-time working and job-shares, please get in touch with us for a conversation about possibilities for this particular role.

For more information about our values and strategic priorities, please visit our website.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Strategy and leadership

• Provide robust, expert financial support and advice to the Chief Finance & Operations Officer (CFOO), leadership team and Finance and Audit Committee (FAC)
• Deputise for the Chief Finance Operating Officer on financial matters as required
• Lead on financial strategy and planning to enable us to become a major international grant recipient, including development and roll out of grant management systems and processes
• Work closely with the Senior Management Team to ensure that our financial systems and processes are agile, providing support and guidance to colleagues in using them
• Lead on specific and innovative finance projects to meet the changing needs of the organisation

Financial planning

• Lead on key aspects of financial planning across the organisation, including risk management and scenario planning, working closely with the CFOO.
• Create financial models to assist the organisation in managing financial sustainability as its operating model evolves.  This will also include monthly management of going concern forecasting.
• Provide financial modelling and impact analysis e.g., inflation, activity projections, workforce fluctuations or indirect cost recovery for the CFOO and FAC.
• Lead on monitoring and managing the annual budget delivery plan to inform business decisions.
• Ensure monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports are provided to managers.
• Lead the statutory accounts process, ensuring relevant resourcing and processes are in place to meet our needs, acting as the main point of contact with the external auditors.
• Ensure that financial systems are robust (including those relating to the grant custodian and any other financial arrangements) and that adequate controls are in place to provide assurance that funds are applied appropriately.
• Ensure that all process and procedures and arrangements are in place for detecting and reporting fraud and support any investigative procedures as required.

Donor Grant Management

• Monitor donor grant pipeline to ensure future funding targets are met
• Monitor donor income against budgets and manage recoveries and fund balances
• Oversee donor financial reporting and compliance to donor T&Cs, and manage risk of disallowances
• Support the Resource Mobilisation Team in negotiating donor T&Cs for new grants

Line Management

• Line manage and support the growth and development of the finance team members currently including Finance Manager, Finance Officer & Controller, International Grants and Finance Officer.
• Monitor performance and ensure financial KPI’s and targets are met or exceeded.
• Manage consultants and other third-party contractors as required.
• Provide team leadership to enhance ways of working as a team, providing high quality advice and levels of service to the organisation.

YOU'LL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE

• Track record of leading a successful financial partnering service, managing a high-calibre, multi-disciplinary team to deliver against demanding timescales.
• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills.
• Proven experience of developing financial models, operating principles, and managing complex budgeting and reporting processes.
• Demonstrable experience of working at a strategic level and being responsive to change.
• Experience of developing finance practice and making improvements to service provision.
• Proven project and team management capability.
• Qualified Finance professional: ACCA, ACA or CIMA.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Flex communication style to convey complex information concisely to different audiences, avoiding jargon and using simple language.
• Hold both a strategic perspective and enough detail to work with one part of the organisation whilst understanding the impact on other parts of the organisation and network through listening and engaging with other teams.
• Provide hands on support when required to the finance function of the organisation as a recognised need in a start-up business.
• Provide leadership by inspiring and unlocking motivation in others across the network to lead and hold them accountable for the results.
• Develop teams by creating safe spaces for them to be challenged and supported to try new things and learn from one another.
• Anticipate the ‘what ifs’ and actively plan to navigate them together with the team, seeking collaborative solutions and drawing on those with relevant expertise.
• Balance the need to follow systems and processes with the courage, identifying when systems and processes do not align with the mission, suggesting alternatives.
• Enable others to deliver results by setting direction, providing clarity around roles and responsibilities, and creating a positive culture.
• Provide an enabling environment for the organisation to try out new approaches to technology, financial and people management through openness to experimentation and learning from outside the sector.

START NETWORK CULTURE

• Carry out the responsibilities of the role in line with the Start Network Code of Conduct and with a commitment to safeguarding adults and children.
• Show a commitment to the Start Network vision, principles, values, and approach.
• We are an agile group of individuals who use our experience and skills across the network, so flexibility to work in and with different teams and functions is a part of our culture.

OUR OFFER TO YOU

Along with a competitve salary we offer a great benefits package:

• Flexible working with options to work from home and remotely some of the time. Please Note: all staff have been working from home under COVID restrictions, and we are currently transitioning to a hybrid working model which for this role will likely be 2 days per week in the office.
• Centrally located office with onsite drinks available free of charge.
• Access to cultural talks, events, pop-up sales, and a place to meet and socialise after work
• Discounts at local cafes and restaurants in association with WeWork.
• Family friendly policies and approached, particularly maternity pay (21 weeks full pay).
• Equity support groups and safe spaces – currently BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and open to others with budget and support from a cross-organisation Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Group.
• Wellbeing initiatives responding to the needs of the organisation eg additional days of leave given under COVID and regular activities initiated through Wellbeing Peer Supporters.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Access to counselling services provided by Thrive International.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Contributory pension.
• Life assurance equivalent of three times your salary
• 25 days holiday, bank holidays plus 2 paid company days over the year end closure period.

APPLICATION

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Senior POD Business Partner - Operations

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Flexible throughout Central England
Salary: £54,565 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience) + £5,000 market supplement
Working Hours: 35 per week

Closing Date: 7 December 2021
Interview Date: TBC via Zoom/Teams

Reference Number - VAC2658

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading dementia charity. We provide information and support, improve care, fund research, and create lasting change for people affected by dementia.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior People and Organisational Development Business Partner (Senior PODBP) to work with our Operations directorate, influencing and enabling the delivery of our local and national information, advice and support services. You will drive forward the people agenda within the Operations directorate operating both strategically and tactically to provide expert and professional people leadership and guidance, supporting the directorate to promote a high-performance culture which enables their strategic and operational goals. You will lead and develop a team of HR Business Partners and work in close partnership with the National Volunteering Team to ensure excellent business-focused people advice.

As a leader you will drive forward an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance environment, supporting our values and expected standards of behaviour to be embedded across the Operations directorate, starting with your own team.

Reporting to the Head of People Partnering, you will be responsible for leading an efficient and progressive business partnering service that delivers expert and appropriate workforce management, leadership and guidance for the directorate. You will ensure our values and volunteering ethos are embedded across the directorate and lead the development and delivery of directorate specific plans and initiatives that drive improvements in the directorate’s capability, capacity and impact for people affected by dementia.

About you

You will be experienced in advising on complex employee relations matters and be confident liaising with and challenging senior stakeholders. You operate with gravitas; a strategic thinker and confident at decision making. You are excited by an environment where there is lots of change happening at the same time, being comfortable with transformational and operational change.

You'll be a first-class people manager able to inspire, coach and unite people towards a common goal. You’ll demonstrate compassion – operating with kindness and empathy and not shying away from tough conversations. You’ll be comfortable with working and leading through ambiguity. And demonstrate sound judgement in the evidence-led decisions you make for us.

If you're interested in being part of this exciting future, we want to hear from you. We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications for all people. If you are considering applying, and something is holding you back – just give us a call, we love to talk!

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer's Society.

You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it’s like to be an employee at the Society.

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Are you an HR professional up for an interesting cross-organisational and multi-dimensional role?

CaLP has recently approved a new strategy, which will guide our work for the coming years. To deliver the strategy, we need to continue a development of an effective, collaborative and agile team, that is transparent, open and accountable. The HR Business Partner will be an enabler, supporting healthy people management practices, and a catalyst working with the HR teams of the CaLP Host agencies

CaLP is hosted by three of its members – Oxfam, ACF and NRC.  CaLP staff are contracted by the hosts, with HR policies set by the host agencies. In the case of ACF and Oxfam, staff are contracted by various entities within the Federated families – depending on location. In addition, CaLP sometimes benefits from having staff seconded from other organisations. The hosting setup of CaLP has many benefits but also some challenges. From an HR perspective, having staff contracted by different hosts means there are differences in terms and conditions, as well as other HR-related policies.  In the coming year, among other things, the goal is to engage with all hosts with the aim of developing an encompassing system as One- CaLP.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an HR professional to provide professional HR advice and practical support on a broad range of employment issues to ensure that our employees have a positive and enriching employment experience with CaLP. The Human Resources Business Partner plays a central role in CaLP’s team, supporting the full range of our work to improve humanitarian aid around the world. This role includes getting involved across all of CaLP’s work.

This role includes getting involved across all of CaLP’s work, with the following dimensions:

• Provide guidance and expertise on people practices such as ways of working, succession planning, restructures, and employee relations.
• Support managers to get to the root of and address any people and business issues.
• Coach and provide feedback to help improve ways of working and efficiency.
• Support team members to resolve people management challenges.
• Build relationships across the team to support healthy ways of working and culture.
• Design, deliver, monitor and review change initiatives that relate to people practices.
• Develop, support and monitor achievement of the staff team training and development plans.
• Act as the CaLP team lead for safeguarding, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to keep people safe.
• Work with hosts for recruitment processes and negotiating grading.
• Support/work towards alignment as far as possible across CaLP team – irrespective of hosts
• Working closely with host agency HR teams, ensures effective delivery of HR administration and record keeping.
• Ensure all staff benefit from professional HR guidance & support, including the transitional and change stages CaLP will undergo in implementing its new 2020-25 Strategy
• Ensure relevant regulations and legal aspects of CaLP’s HR management and employment are followed, including taxation matters

Essential Technical skills, Experience and Knowledge:

• Competent HR professional, with prior experience of working as an HR Advisor or Business Partner within an international setting.
• Confident HR generalist with experience of working at both strategic and operational levels, balancing daily end-to-end employee life-cycle activities and multi-tasking is key.
• Coaching skills and experience of supporting performance development
• Experience of managing change and promoting effective working practices
• Knowledge and expertise of labour practices and laws and confidence to apply contextual judgement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent facilitation skills.
• Passionate about people.

Desirable:

• Fluency in Arabic, French or Spanish, in addition to English
• Experience of working in a virtual network or remote team

NB – core personnel administration is provided by host HR departments, e.g., payroll, contract amendments, advertising of roles, filing of appraisals, etc.

We offer:

Grade C role, OGB contract

Our values and commitment to safeguarding:

This position is hosted by Oxfam GB. We are committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom CaLP and Oxfam GB engages. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up-to-date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria listed above.  Please apply via this link. 

Closing date: 1st December 2021  (while applying, you will be directed from CaLP website to Oxfam website automatically)